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When people came to meet us at the Scott Logic stand at Women of Silicon Roundabout, we took the opportunity to ask them “What would make somewhere a most loved workplace for you?” We received over 200 responses and in this post, Bethan Wallis reflects on the results.
If, like Chris Price, you’ve ever struggled to mode-switch between Insert mode and Normal mode in 1970s text editor Vim (and who among us hasn’t?), then he has the solution: repurpose a guitar pedal so that it enters Insert mode when you press down on it and leaves it when you release it. It was staring us all in the face, right? Make yourself a warm drink and then marvel as Chris takes you through the process step by step.
From jotting down notes to composing blog posts, Markdown is a brilliant tool for quickly writing up universally accessible documents. In this post (written in Markdown!), Associate Developer Charlie Olive provides a brief overview of the creation, workings and application of this markup language.
When it comes to the design and delivery of digital services—perhaps counterintuitively—rules can help you go faster. Principal Consultant Jessica McEvoy explains in her latest post how she learnt this valuable lesson, and the difference that legislative frameworks made to the speed and success of the government's pandemic response. Over the summer, in partnership with Scott Logic, the Institute for Government ran a series of roundtable discussions with senior civil servants and government experts on the topic of Data Sharing in Government. This blog post is the second in a series in which Jess will share some reflections on key themes that arose.
At last week's Women of Silicon Roundabout conference in London, Delivery Principal Anna Caulfield co-presented a workshop on 'How to build a business case for your next promotion'. In this blog post, she shares some of the workshop content, including a Career Canvas tool for mapping out your goals and motivations, helping you build your business case.
As Mastodon adoption grows in response to controversies around Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, Developer Matt Grabara takes you on a quick tour of the 'fediverse' and looks at ActivityPub, the open standard that makes Mastodon special.
All companies want high-performance systems and it's easier than ever to buy that better performance. However, what if you could avoid that extra, ongoing expense and fine-tune your existing systems to achieve greater performance? In this post, Developer Adam Barron takes you through a practical and inexpensive approach to diagnosing poor performance in a microservice pipeline.
Assembling multidisciplinary teams to build critical new services for citizens was a key factor in the success of the government's early pandemic response, explains Principal Consultant Jessica McEvoy in this new blog. For these vital projects, getting the 'right people in the (virtual) room' involved bringing together senior government leaders with software engineers, legal experts, healthcare practitioners, and data scientists, among others. As a result, the projects were able to progress at an unprecedented pace. Over the summer, in partnership with Scott Logic, the Institute for Government (IfG) ran a series of roundtable discussions with senior civil servants and government experts on the topic of Data Sharing in Government. This blog post is the first in a series in which Jess will share some reflections on key themes that arose.
📺 NEW VIDEOS: The talks from 9 Nov's Open Source Edinburgh are now available to watch on YouTube: • Jonathan Haggarty, Head of Bank of APIs Technology, NatWest Group on 'APIs: Built on Open Source Foundations' 📺 https://youtu.be/B2P6W1tlc9w • Ricardo Sueiras, Principal Advocate in Open Source, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on 'Amazon Corretto: Back to the Future' 📺 https://youtu.be/JCZvmOEnLmk We organise Open Source Edinburgh in partnership with FINOS. Join the group to be among the first to hear about future events: https://www.meetup.com/open-source-edinburgh/
EDGY is a new graphical design language for visualising enterprises. In this post, Oliver Cronk explores the preview edition of this new, open source design language and explains why he thinks EDGY shows great promise as a tool to bridge across siloed teams.
