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Curtis Rueden
Affiliation	UW-Madison LOCI
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Website	http://restlesscoder.net/

Curtis Rueden directs the software development efforts of LOCI. He is the principal architect of ImageJ2, and the current maintainer of the Fiji distribution of ImageJ.

What is Curtis working on?

Primary projects

Here is a summary of my current projects, in priority order. I try to keep this list up to date.

1. ImageJ forum generalization to a software-agnostic Scientific Image Analysis forum.
2. Document community expectations. Formally define and clarify who is responsible for maintaining which plugins, to what extents (Project developer roles, ctrueden/ctr-scripts:dev-find, fiji/fiji:bin/team-hints.perl)
3. Ops generic type matching. Improve the Ops type matcher to fully support generics, including recursive generics. (scijava/scijava-common@generic-types, imagej/imagej-ops@nil)
4. ImageJ + Java 8. Complete the migration to Java 8 with a Java-6-compatible stub classpath that checks your Java version and tells you how to upgrade to Java 8 if needed. Retire the Java-8 update site, distributing its contents back onto the ImageJ and Fiji update sites.
5. Rich Image. Improve the ImageJ Common data model to support metadata (e.g., spatial transformations) as a first-class citizen. (imagej/imagej-common@rich, imagej/janelia-hackathon-2016)
6. GitHub issue reporting plugin. The Fiji BugZilla is temporarily offline; those pages need to be restored, and then—along with the remainder of the ImageJ Trac—migrated to GitHub Issues. The Report a Bug plugin needs to send reports to GitHub instead. (scijava/scijava-plugins-issues-github)
7. SCIFIO blockization. (scifio/scifio#283)
8. SciJava Common 3. (scijava/scijava-common@sjc3)
9. ImageJ Launcher. Switch to a JavaFX-based native launcher. Retire the current ImageJ Launcher. (imagej/imagej-launcher#33)

I am fully committed to all of the above projects. They are driven by me, making progress only when I directly work on them.

Additional projects

I am also coordinating and/or leading and/or advising and/or helping with, but not directly implementing, the following additional projects:

1. (with Alison Walter) LOCI web server Dockerization/robustification.
2. (with Alison Walter) ImgLib2 ROIs. Development of data structures, especially for use with ImageJ-OMERO. (Implementation plan for Imglib2-rois 2D)
3. (with Gabriel Einsdorf) SciJava I/O. (scijava/scijava-common@more-handles)
4. (with Gabriel Selzer) ImageJ Ops algorithms. Addition of more image processing algorithms to ImageJ Ops.
5. (with Kyle Harrington) ImageJ in 3D. Unification of ImageJ 3D visualization efforts around ClearVolume and the SciView.
6. (with Tobias Pietzsch) Visualization of big data. Unification of visualization in general around the BigDataViewer. (imagej/imagej-common#66)

Constant priorities

Finally, I have the following continuous priorities:

1. Mentoring student programmers at LOCI
2. Coordinating programming efforts at LOCI
3. Questions on the ImageJ Forum
4. Bug reports
5. Pull requests
6. Email (~300 messages per day as of this writing)
7. Server maintenance and troubleshooting
8. Project management tasks (e.g., managing Issues)

On average, I spend ~0-2 hours per day on my primary projects above. The rest is spent on these constant priorities.

Recommended development tools

So you want to be an effective software developer? Use tools!

Tool	Purpose	Plugins
Eclipse	Super powerful Essential for navigation of large projects Supreme code completion Super useful debugger	Vrapper	Vim-fu inside Eclipse – almost as good as the real thing
		JD-ECLIPSE	Automatic decompilation when browsing classes
Vim	Best editor! Crazy fast macros	Vundle	Manage your vim plugins like a boss
		vim-sensible	Defaults everyone can agree on
		vim-airline	Lean & mean status/tabline that's light as air
		vim-fugitive	A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal
		vim-repeat	Repeating supported plugin maps with "."
		vim-surround	Quoting/parenthesizing made simple
		See also my .vimrc
Zsh	Awesome shell – even better than bash	zgen	Lightweight plugin manager
		oh-my-zsh	Your terminal never felt this good before: git - awesome git completion and aliases mvn - mvn completion, highlighting, aliases vi-mode - vi on the CLI vundle - manage your vim plugins z - stop cding your life away And much more
		zsh-syntax-highlighting	Syntax highlights commands as you type them
		zsh-history-substring-search	Better command history navigation
		zsh-completion	Even more and better tab completions
		See also my .zshrc
Git	It is worth the pain, I promise	myrepos	Commit, push & pull across repositories en masse
		See also my .gitconfig
GitHub	If you don't have a GitHub account, you don't exist
Maven	Build reusable software components

See also:

• The Dotfiles setup guide
• Key developer tools on this wiki
• LOCI developer getting started guide