Supercharge your open project with leadership training
Latest version published on 27 November, 2019.
By Bérénice Batut, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang, and Yo YehudiQuantitative Ecology Hackathon
Latest version published on 27 November, 2019.
By Software Sustainability Institute Fellow Jessica Ward, University of NewcastleReflections on the Open Science Fair 2019
Latest version published on 27 November, 2019.
By Rachael Ainsworth, Community Manager and Fellow of the Software Sustainability InstituteMaintainers III: Infrastructure and climate
Latest version published on 27 November, 2019.
By Dr Laura James, Software Sustainability Institute FellowMaintainers III: labour
Latest version published on 27 November, 2019.
By Dr Laura James, Software Sustainability Institute FellowMaintenance in 2019
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By Dr Laura James, Software Sustainability Institute FellowA glossary of terms for research software engineering
Latest version published on 27 November, 2019.
Vanessa Villamia Sochat, an engineer for the Stanford Research Computing Center, has begun creating a glossary of terms just for research software engineering.
Using the Cloud for Research Software Engineering
Latest version published on 5 November, 2019.
By Mark Woodbridge, Research Software Engineering Team Lead, Imperial College London We previously described three RSE-related use cases for Microsoft’s Azure platform, ranging in deployment granularity from VMs to individual JavaScript functions. In this post we’ll explain further how we use those and other Azure services to complement our on-premise infrastructure – helping us to deliver our RSE projects faster.Bloodsuckers, banshees and brains: a bestiary of scary software projects and how to banish them
Latest version published on 31 October, 2019.
With All Hallows Eve upon us once more, as the souls of the dead come to haunt us, it’s time to recount terrifying tales and scary stories… about software. You might think that research software is safe from such gruesome goings-on but you would be wrong, for there are many undead projects out to devour us.WhatsApp Scraping
Latest version published on 21 October, 2019.
When researchers Drs Gary Motteram, Susan Dawson and Amanda Banks Gatenby from the School of Environment, Education and Development wanted to run analysis on WhatsApp messages, they came to Research IT for help.