Tech
In this post, we'll take a look at some of the performance issues you might encounter when making interactive charts using SVG, and how you might go about fixing them.
Delivery
Agile is a term that is heavily overloaded within software development. In this blog I take a look at Agile as a mindset for development, as opposed to a set of tools and practices.
Tech
Apple released the first public beta of the Swift programming language just over three months ago. Within days of the release myself and Matt Galloway started working on our book Swift by Tutorials, which as of yesterday is finally finished and shipping!
Tech
D3.js is a great library for creating dynamic visualisations with HTML/SVG/CSS, while Jekyll is a static site generator tool. Here I look at integrating static versions of D3 visualisations in a Jekyll site using PhantomJS.
Tech
This post demonstrates how JavaScript and HTML5 related technologies can be used to create an application that can run in both a web browser and as a cross-platform desktop application using node-webkit.
Tech
This blog post shows an implementation of Conway's Game of Life using functional techniques in Swift.
Tech
This post will address a question that is often raised within organisations transitioning to Agile - is there a place for the Project Manager role when using Scrum on a project?
Tech
As an Intern in the Edinburgh office I have been involved in creating a slideshow that conveys interesting information about the company; something useful and entertaining to catch the attention of visitors in the waiting area.
Tech
In my last article (on line annotation components for D3 charts), I created a D3 component which calculated and displayed a moving average. As promised, I'm now turning my attention to Bollinger Bands.
Tech
In this article I'm going to create two simple, reusable D3 components for adding line annotations to charts.
Delivery
The exact method used for introducing Agile will depend on the nature of our client. Here I look at how different clients might affect the approach we take.
Tech
We're the Scott Logic interns for Newcastle in 2014, and our project was to make a mobile-compatible version of the Scratch HTML5 player that allows offline access, and app-like immersion. This blog post is an overview of what we managed to achieve ...
Tech
An open-high-low-close chart is a type of financial chart used to show price movements in a financial instrument over time. In this post, we'll make a reusable D3 component for an OHLC chart series.
Delivery
An alternative to introducing Agile incrementally is to make a 'big bang' transition, converting over to Agile all at once. In this post I take a look at how this might work.
Tech
How to use Asp.Net's built-in bundling and optimisation feature to optimise AngularJS templates
Tech
Actor Models make writing concurrent and scalable software much easier. This post uses Akka and Scala to demonstrate some of the benefits of the Actor model.
Delivery
One of the common ways of introducing Agile is to incrementally move the current process to a more Agile one. Here I take a look at the strengths and weakness of this approach.
Tech
SignalR is an easy to use framework for .NET and the browser which enables bi-directional communication over a variety of transports (from WebSockets to Ajax long-polling). The SignalR Hubs API is dynamically typed, in this post I will summarise some existing tools which can be used to provide strong typing for calls between C# and TypeScript, as well as a more experimental approach via F#, FunScript and Type Providers.
Data Engineering
Sharded clusters enable the data persistence layer in MongoDB to be shared across several machines. In this post, we will look at the key considerations you should make before you use sharded clusters.
Tech
Writing end-to-end tests for a Single Page Application (SPA) built with Angular or Knockout, and how to improve the robustness of those tests.