Testing
How I used R to collect and analyse all of the tweets made about Test Bash Manchester, a recent software testing conference.
Tech
Yesterday I attended (and spoke!) at the 2016 Bristech conference, an event aimed at polyglots, innovators and the "tech curious". It was a full house at the Watershed with over 400 tickets sold. I had a great time at the conference, attending quite a few talks myself. What made the conference interesting to me was the diverse range of subjects covered - design, security, even physics! Presented here are some brief notes and comments from the day's proceedings.
Tech
In this post, I take a look at writing a simple particle simulation as a way of learning some of the basics of the Go language.
Testing
I was lucky enough to attend Test Bash Manchester recently. This is my first hand report of the experience. Find out what happened when testers from around the world all came together to talk about testing.
Tech
Awareness of Bitcoin has steadily grown, but understanding of it less so. Allow us to shed some light.
Resources
A white paper which takes a looks at the continued growth of HTML5 and how it is now a viable solution for desktop application development.
People
This year we welcomed seven interns to our offices. In this blog post we explore the projects they worked on over their time here.
Testing
Having never given a technical talk before, I agreed to speak in public then found myself figuring out how I was going to do this.
Tech
A practical look into higher order components and what they bring to the table, along with a general discussion of code reuse in React
Tech
In this article, I take a look at writing a watchface for Pebble using their newly released JavaScript SDK.
Tech
If you look up the MVC pattern on the web you can easily find definitions that differ and contradict each other. In this post I'll look at some definitions of MVC and consider what the differences mean for applying the pattern in practice.
People
Continuous learning is part of our culture at Scott Logic, our test engineer Hannah volunteers as a STEM Ambassador in local schools. Find out more here.
Tech
This blog describes my experience of upgrading a basic RESTful API from .NET Core RC1 to .NET Core 1.0, and using Docker to host it on Linux. Docker is completely new to me so I'll give my thoughts as a noob.
UX Design
Despite all the excitement around chatbots, conversational UIs and conversational commerce, you need to take a step back and consider whether they could be appropriate for your services. This post weighs up the potential against the current reality and highlights aspects to consider.
Tech
Migrating a Knockout project to a webpack redux application using Riot, and why I didn't use React.
Tech
This post describes my entry into one of the hack events at JSConf.IS which challenged us to take control of the Northern Lights. It hopefully also serves as a nice introduction to creating visualisations with d3-force.