Andreas Zeller’s Blog

My blog has a mixture of various topics from academia and software development, often with a humorous touch. Here is the list of all posts:

• Reviewer-Author Collusion Rings and How to Fight Them (2025-12-07)
• The Virtue of Simplicity (2025-01-25)
• How do different fields review papers? Experiences from ICSE, PLDI, and CCS (2021-07-27)
• The Devil's Guide to Incremental Research (2021-04-15)
• What's it like to be a PhD student in Germany (2020-07-01)
• When Results Are All That Matters: Consequences (2019-10-17)
• When Results Are All That Matters: The Case of the Angora Fuzzer (2019-10-10)
• Where your conference fees go to (2018-02-01)
• I am leaving Saarland University, and the call for my successor is open (2018-01-25)
• The Rejection Song (2017-11-02)
• Mit dem Fahrrad aus der Saarbrücker Innenstadt zur Uni (2017-04-26)
• Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (2017-01-13)
• PostDoc Position, Software Testing and Analysis / Software Engineering (2016-10-14)
• On Facts and Dreams in Software Research (2016-09-07)
• Spiegel Online nutzt unsichere Cäsar-Chiffre: So lassen sich Spiegel Plus-Artikel lesen, ohne zu bezahlen (2016-06-28)
• My first talk at a scientific conference: A complete and utter disaster (2016-05-23)
• The new ICSE Erdős penalty, or why we should create incentives for frequent reviewers (2016-04-17)
• Four security flaws illustrated, all on one conference registration site (2016-04-09)
• Mining Sandboxes for Security (2016-03-10)
• If you ran an EasyChair conference in the past, here's how to shut down access to past data (2015-03-15)
• Wie Universitäten die "Industrie vor Ort" unterstützen können: Firmen gründen, statt Firmen nachzueifern (2014-10-07)
• This day in my history: The 1974 World Cup Final as seen from Beirut, Lebanon (2014-07-07)
• if you plan to invite me for your upcoming event, please avoid nightmares like this one (2014-07-02)
• Using Microcontrollers to teach Programming to Engineers (2014-05-13)
• Since I follow "Getting Things Done", I get more reminders, not less (2014-01-20)
• Post Doc Position With Andreas Zeller (2013-12-09)
• Summarizing your presentation with miniature slides (2013-10-22)
• Faster, better, stronger: The case for one-phase reviews (2013-09-11)
• A Slide Generator for EasyChair (2013-05-26)
• My top ten presentation issues in other's papers (2013-04-05)
• We are creating a Start-up in Web testing (2013-03-01)
• Twelve tips on how to prepare an ERC grant proposal (2013-02-23)
• What makes good research? (2012-10-16)
• Patterns for writing good rebuttals (2012-10-01)
• August (and Christmas!) should be free of conference deadlines (2012-07-12)
• Are classroom lectures doomed? (2012-06-29)
• Coming soon: an online course on debugging (2012-06-13)
• Turning iPad PDF annotations into anonymous reviews (2012-04-13)