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By Sarbjit Bakhshi , Lead Technologist ICT, Technology Strategy Board . The following post is re-posted from Sarbjit's blog . Having worked with small companies in ICT over a number of years, the most common question I get asked is “Do ...

Feed Item - 5 April 2012

New Cisco blades, engines and power suppliesDELLs boxes among which new switches Aerial view of the old cabling Frontal view of the mess Cables unplugged from the cisco Cisco old blades with services racks still connected New cat6 ...

Feed Item - 5 April 2012

You can tell it’s been conference season over the past few weeks – lots of travelling, lack of sleep and notes written in cryptic language on my laptop from various sessions and presentations.The EGI Community Forum was held in Munich, Germany at th ...

Feed Item - 11 April 2012

By Malte Ressin, research student at the University of West London. There is a Garfield comic whose three panels tell a story that goes something like this: John [optimistic]: Wouldn't it be great if everyday items could talk? The sink would ...

Feed Item - 11 April 2012

All journals are not equal. Publishing your research in the right journal can make a significant difference to your citations and the impact of your research. For this reason, we’re interested in learning where software-savvy researchers publish their ...

Feed Item - 12 April 2012

This year will mark my tenth anniversary as a software developer, most of which I have spent in academia. I started out developing a web application in Java using Eclipse on Linux. This much hasn’t changed, despite the rise of Android, NoSQL, HTML5, D ...

Feed Item - 16 April 2012

It is worth pondering how scientific programming is different from other programming. Last year I gave an introductory talk on specialised languages used for science (in which I include Fortran but mainly covered R, APlus, and suchlike). How do you do " ...

Feed Item - 16 April 2012

By Avrum Goodblatt. Dynamic systems are those whose design can evolve quickly with changes in research approaches and opportunities. Whether software is developed by lab staff, IT staff, consultants, from open source or from a commercial product, t ...

Feed Item - 17 April 2012

PRINCE2 is a formal, structured approach to project management. Agile methods are a family of developer-oriented software engineering approaches. They are very different animals. How can they possibly work together? Well, wait a minute. There ...

Feed Item - 16 April 2012

By Kristy Revell, Agent and PhD student, University College London I recently decided to use a qualitative, data-analysis software package called Atlas.ti , which allows researchers to methodically uncover observed phenomena in their data. I ...

Feed Item - 18 April 2012