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Apply now to be a Graduate Software Developer or a Graduate Test Engineer at our Newcastle HQ and get your career off to the very best start! Find out more on our website about all the great opportunities we offer to graduates and submit your application by Monday 18 October. Our Assessment and Interview Days will be Wednesday 20 October–Friday 22 October so be sure to keep them free!
By looking at code ownership through the lenses of capitalism and socialism, Benedict Quinn contrasts private code ownership with its alternative, collective code ownership. Trust is key for the latter approach, so Benedict poses the question: could you introduce collective code ownership on *your* project?
Did you miss Alexander Ternar's Leeds Digital Festival talk on Inclusive Design? You can now watch it on YouTube at a time that suits you. If you like what you hear, we're recruiting Lead UX Designers for roles in Edinburgh and Newcastle. If you have the confidence to influence and advise clients while guiding design efforts on projects as part of cross-functional teams, we'd love to hear from you. Find out more about the role on our website and get in touch https://www.scottlogic.com/vacancies/lead-user-experience-designer
Lags in governance and executive leadership are holding back the financial services industry from accessing the full benefits of open source software. This is a key finding of the FINOS '2021 State of Open Source in Financial Services' survey report, published on 5 October in London at the Open Source Strategy Forum. Scott Logic worked in partnership with FINOS, The Linux Foundation, Wipro and GitHub to shape, conduct and analyse the survey. Find out more here about the results and how Scott Logic supports financial services organisations to harness the full potential of open source.
The OpenAI Codex JavaScript Sandbox and the API which backs it have generated a lot of justified interest in the development community. Chris Price pulls back the curtain a little in this blog post, dispelling some of the magic so that you can better understand the capabilities of the model and how they can be applied.
We're excited to be participating in four talks at next Tuesday's Open Source Strategy Forum 2021 in London: • Tamara Chehayeb Makarem will be moderating a panel discussion on 'Journeys within Fintech: A panel on women's career progression' • Graham Odds will be participating in a panel discussion on 'The Growth of InnerSource in Financial Services' • Colin Eberhardt will be presenting a talk on 'Open Source Sustainability and our Corporate Social Responsibility' and participating in a panel discussion on the findings of the 'State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey' This is a COVID-safe, in-person event organised by FINOS and The Linux Foundation. 📍 London EC3 🗓️ Tues 5 Oct
The pandemic accelerated the growth in the average time we spend online each day. As Kat Angel explains in this post, studies show that mental health can be adversely affected by spending increasing amounts of time on the Internet. She offers some suggestions about safeguarding mental wellbeing, including how she is consciously adapting her own habits.
As a developer, the number of things that can trip you up about date and time handling is astonishing. With the end of British Summer Time a few weeks away, Colin Eberhardt reflects on 120 years of timezones and the introduction of daylight saving, an idea that may well have had its day.
On 24 Sept, get to grips with the computer skills of Average Joe. In this talk, Lead Developer Paul Graham will summarise the results of a recent survey into the general population's computer skills, and help you to visualise and understand the ability levels of the average user so that you can build better software. This event is part of Leeds Digital Festival 2021. 🗓️ Fri 24 Sep 🕙 12:00-12:45
Adding a custom ESLint rule to a JavaScript codebase was less straightforward than Benedict Quinn expected. Having managed to enforce a couple of rules, he shares what he learnt in his latest blog, with five steps you can follow.
