Research Coding Club

Today’s Coding Club was presented by Killian Murphy, who talked us through software project management, from capturing the needs of the project, through the design process, to implementing and, ultimately, maintaining the software. Along the way he covered many useful tools to help ease you through the process, including Treesheets,... [Read More]

If you’ve ever attempted to compile some software from source, it’s likely you’ve come across Makefiles. It’s also likely you’ve heard them described as “black magic”. This week, I hope to demystify them, at least a little bit, and explain how some of the magic works. [Read More]

Visualising data can be tricky: the human visual perception system is full of hacks built on top of poorly-designed hardware. Take, for instance, the colour of the sky. The air scatters sunlight through a process known as Rayleigh scattering, and the degree of scattering is inversely proportional to the fourth... [Read More]

Could you find a document you wrote in 2007? Could you explain how you got the figures or results in that document, and repeat it if needed? [Read More]

If you do anything at all on the command line in either Linux or OS X, at some point or another you’ve probably had to do something tricky and thought, “I wish there was some tool that just did this”, and then discovered to your delight there was a tool... [Read More]