Jamie Starke

I develop for my career, but I also develop for fun, and whenever I think it can solve a problem I'm having. This has lead me to create side projects, such as Rental Map and BusTimes, among others.

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2023

Amazon Web Services - New Public IP address charge, and what it means for you

Amazon Web Services is introducing a new $0.005/month charge for Public IPs, but it may cause you to pay more than you expect.

Cloudflare Teams: NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

I've been seeing an increasing number of 'Your connection is not private'. In the end, I found out I was at fault.

2022

Adventures in Cloud Gaming, Revisited

I had a gaming machine, in the Cloud for $15/month

The Psychological Terror that is On-Call

There are bad ways you can do on-call, then there are terrible ways you can do on-call.

2020

Adventures in Cloud Gaming: Streaming with Parsec

How I use parsec to pay for a super gaming rig, and pay by the hour

2018

Bustimes is retiring

2017

The Victoria Rental Map is retiring

Activity Aware IDS for AWS: The simple way to stay aware of activity in your AWS Account

An open source tool for keeping on top of the activity in your AWS account

2015

Continuous Integration for Web Components with Web Component Tester and Travis CI

Build your web components with confidence and style

Using Web Components to create a card playing algorithm

When you can't beat an AI, sometimes you have to build your own

2014

A Better use of the Caps Lock Key

How often do you really need the caps lock key these days? Wouldn't you like something more useful

My move to Jekyll: Clean and responsive

My experiences on my journey from Wordpress to Jekyll

Finding the right Canadian data plan: Minimize cost based on your use

Breaking down the Canadian Data plans, and finding the right Canadian Data Plan based on your own data usage.

My year without a voice plan: Phone calls for less

How I dropped my voice plan, saved a ton of money, and maintained my ability to make phone calls.

Whisky Oriented Development

2014 Whisky Oriented Development - Victoria's Programmers' Whisky Society

2013

Google Chrome about links: One link to rule them all

This post is going to be short, but if like me, you frequently are trying to tweek the settings on your Google Chrome, you are constantly looking up what the...

Victoria JavaScript Community

Over the past few years, I've become increasingly interested in meeting new people, getting exposed to new ideas and networking. I've attended the Victoria G...

2012

BusTimes

2012 Find the time of your next bus, fast! - BusTimes. BusTimes.ca is a Web-based application for mobile devices, designed to help answer the question of "Wh...

Canadian Population Pyramids

2012 Canadian Population Pyramids is a Web-based visualization that allows users to explore the 2011 Canadian Census, Age-Sex data set.

Victoria Rental Map / Breeze

2012 Victoria Rental Map is a Web-based visualization that shows apartments for rent in Victoria, in relation to bus routes to the University of Victoria.

Why I won't be getting a Lumia 900

The Nokia Lumia 900 is a great looking phone, running what I believe to be a great operating system. It was named “Best of CES” by CNET. It is powered by the...

Fixed: ExecJS RuntimeError and FATAL ERROR: v8::Context::New() when deploying Rails to Shared Hosting

I've recently been working on setting up a rails app for a site I'm building for one of my side projects. While I've mostly been working on this in my spare...

MacBook Pro unable to connect to internet after waking from sleep

I recently I've been having some problems with my MacBook Pro. At first, I would seem to get disconnected from the internet randomly. After a few weeks, I ...

2011

Best software for On-line Communities?

I'm Looking for advice as to what the best software is for creating online communities.

How to collect a Network Log for Google Chrome

Are you having some weird networking problems and want to report a bug to Google Chrome? The most helpful thing you can do to speed up the process is get a n...

Are Google's Services Running Slow in Chrome? Try Disabling Spdy

Are you trying to connect to your Gmail, and it seems to take forever to connect? What about Google Docs? Google Plus? All of the above? It might not be Chro...

In search of a New Side Project

So last weekend, I wrote on Google Plus about how I was looking for a new side project. Although I still haven’t decided on one, I did decide that as I find ...

Google+ should have Share defaults at the Circle level

Earlier this week, I heard about Googles latest social offering. After checking out all the videos and information about the Google+ Project online, I was ea...

Towards Understanding Twitter Use in Software Engineering: Preliminary Findings Ongoing Challenges and Future Questions

Gargi Bougie, Jamie Starke, Margaret-Anne Storey and Daniel German. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering...

TweetSeeker

2011 TweetSeeker is a web-based tool for exploring Twitter users status updates.

Understanding the use of Micro-blogging in Software Engineering

2011 This project investigates how software developers use micro-blogging. We find that the Software Engineering community extensively leverages Twitter's ca...

Out with Drupal, In with Wordpress

For anyone that checks my site regularly, I’m sure you’ve noticed some fairly big changes over the last day or so.

2010

Recommendations for an academic career path?

Today marks the end of my first semester as a PhD student. Over the last several months, I have talked to many interesting people about academic career oppo...

Cranberry Martini

Combine vodka, Contreau liquor, and cranberry juice in a cocktail shaker...

Apple Martini

Pour vodka, sour apple schnapps and apple juice in a cocktail shaker and add ice cubes...

Chocolate pudding

In a saucepan, stir together sugar, cocoa, cornstarch and salt. Place over medium heat, and stir in milk....

What do we know about Humans in Software Engineering? What are your favourites?

After a relatively busy summer, complete with a move across the mountains, I recently started my PhD with the CHISEL group at UVic. There were many reas...

Finding What is Important: Understanding and Improving Source Code Search

Jamie Starke. Master of Science thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, July 2010.

Understanding Searching Behaviour

2010 Further analysis of a study involving programmers new to an open source code base was performed, to look in more detail at programmers searching beha...

Internship Advice?

I am currently a Teaching Assistant for SENG 301 (Analysis and Design of Large Scale Systems), a second or third year Computer Science course, depending on t...

So It Begins

I’m currently thinking of starting a new blog up. Of course, I’m not looking for something that I will be updating all the time. But I’m looking for someth...

2009

End of Semester

The semester is at an end, and I would like to thank all of you for a great semester.

Try Except Example

This is a useful example of how to use Try/Excepts in Python

Tavolo

2009 Tavolo is a tabletop application for conferences. This application was developed for the Microsoft Surface using the WPF Framework.

Loading a file to a list

This week in tutorial we covered file input.

November 23rd CT Hours Cancelled

CT Hours for Monday November 23rd will be cancelled. If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected]

Week of November 23rd, 2009

I will be out of town from Monday the 23nd until Wednesday the 25th. My tutorials will be covered by the other TAs as follows.

Grayscale Example

Another good example of how to work with images is available in this Grayscale image example.

Assignment 3

Assignment 3 is due Friday, November 20th at Noon.

2D Lists

This has been shamelessly borrowed from Chris Luce, as he showed them in one of my tutorials last week.

Scope of Variables

We covered a number of examples using scope. I have decided to post these examples so that they will hopefully help you all better understand scope.

Function Example: Assignment 2

A good example of how to use functions is a the following modified version of assignment 2.

Midterm Reminder

The midterm for CPSC 217 will be Thursday September 29th @ 6PM in Science Theatres 148. Don’t forget to bring the always important identification, as in lar...

Assignment 2 Reminders

Assignment 2 is due on Monday, October 26th at Noon. Get a good start on it now, as there is very limited time for extra help on Monday.

For Loop Examples

The first example from this week was a count down. This would display on screen a count down from 10 to 0.

While loop Example

Here is the intersection example from last Wednesay and Thursday’s tutorial.

Assignment 2 Information

If you have not already done so, You should look at Assignment 2. This assignment is not extremely hard, but you may find it tricky in a few places.

No Tutorial Monday (October 12) and Tuesday (October 13)

There will be no tutorials on Monday (October 12) and Tuesday (October 13) due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. Wednesday and Thursday tutorials will resume as ...

If Statements

Here are 3 examples of using if statements in python.

Assignment 1 Submission

Just a few reminders for everyone about assignment submission. These are helpful reminders, they are not to be taken as a complete list of requirements.

Converting between bases

To convert between different bases, we can use a form like in this example going from Hexadecimal to Decimal and Decimal to Hexadecimal. Using a similar fo...

Assignment 1 Part B Starter

Chris Luce gave a good example to help show the basic concepts needed to get started on assignment 1. This example is available Here.

Assignment 1

We will be covering Assignment 1 Part B in tutorial this week. To facilitate this, we will be going over QuickDraw. A This site includes a full set of do...

Week of September 21st 2009

I will be out of town from Tuesday the 22nd until Friday the 25th. My tutorials will be covered by the other TAs as follows.

Extra help and CT Hours for CPSC 217 F09

As you start trying the assignment, remember that if you have questions, there are lots of opportunities are available for help. I am available at the CT De...

Useful Linux Commands

The following are a list of useful Linux Commands that you may want to use during the course.

Searching and Skimming: An Exploratory Study

Jamie Starke, Chris Luce and Jonathan Sillito. In ICSM'09: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2009.

Working with Search Results

Jamie Starke, Chris Luce and Jonathan Sillito. ICSE Workshop on Search-Driven Development – Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation. 2009.