ImageJ

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?

Here is a summary of my current projects, in priority order. (Last updated: 2020-May-01)

pom-scijava 29.0.0 release.
LOCI web server downsizing. Retiring and migrating services.
Update Fiji distribution to use JBRSDK8 version of Java.
PyImageJ 1.0.0 bug-fixes + release.
Reconcile latest ImageJ 1.x version with ImageJ2 patching logic (imagej/ij1-patcher#47)
JPMS/Jigsaw modularization. (scijava/incubator)
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)
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.
GitHub issue reporting plugin. The Fiji BugZilla and ImageJ Trac are now static content only. The Report a Bug plugin needs to send reports to GitHub instead. (scijava/scijava-plugins-issues-github)
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)
SCIFIO blockization. (scifio/scifio#283)
ImageJ Launcher. Switch to a JavaFX-based native launcher. Retire the current ImageJ Launcher. (imagej/imagej-launcher#33)
ImageJ Electron app. Shared memory between Java, JavaScript and Python. (imagej/imagej-electron-app)

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

I am also coordinating and/or leading and/or advising and/or helping with, but not sole implementer for, the following additional projects:

(with Dasong Gao) FLIMJ.
(with Gabriel Selzer) SciJava Ops (scijava/scijava-ops) and ImageJ Ops.
(with Edward Evans) New ImageJ web site. (imagej/imagej.github.io)
(with Ellen Dobson) Coloc 2 algorithms in ImageJ Ops.
(with Kyle Harrington and Ulrik Günther) ImageJ in 3D. Unification of ImageJ 3D visualization efforts around SciView.
(with Tobias Pietzsch) Visualization of big data. Unification of visualization in general around the BigDataViewer. (imagej/imagej-common#66)

Finally, I have the following continuous priorities:

Mentoring student programmers at LOCI
Coordinating programming efforts at LOCI
User support – questions on the Image.sc Forum, bug reports, pull requests, email
Server maintenance and troubleshooting
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.

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
Eclipse		Enhanced Class Decompiler	Automatic decompilation when browsing classes in Eclipse

Vim	Great 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 `cd`ing 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
Git	It is worth the pain, I promise	See also my .gitconfig

GitHub	If you don't have a GitHub account, you don't exist

Maven	Build reusable software components