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RHOK Water Hackathon – Team Tarifa Won!
The past weekend I finally got the chance to attend one of the RHOK hackathon events. These events concentrate on using technology to solve humanitarian problems such as those related to draught,...
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What do you want to be when you grow up? Some personal reflections.
Preamble At some point in life everybody reaches a stage where they have to decide what do with their professional, i.e., working, life. Some have it figured out during high school: they know what they...
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The researcher programmer, a new species?
Update: There has been some good discussion on this post at the LinkedIn group on Scientific Software Development and Management. See also the papers by Victoria Stodden and the great complmentary...
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#RHoKSoton is going to rock!
In 30 minutes we have the #RHoKSoton pre-RHoK Event social gathering in a nearby pub. Tomorrow morning we will join 30 worldwide locations and 3000+ participants to work on a number of challenging...
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On Twitter
My presence on the web started with a Hotmail address setup sometime in 1997 from a painstakingly slow dialup connection in the middle of Malawi, East Africa. About 3 years later this was followed by...
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The State of Africa
This post collects my thoughts on a book I just finished reading. The State of Africa by Martin Merdith. Its taken me a long time to read but that has nothing to do with the book, rather with the...
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The Research Software Engineer
Some months ago I attended the 2012 Collaborations workshop in Oxford, something which I blogged about in my post The Researcher Programmer, a New Species?. This then triggered some discussion on the...
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Learning, Doing, Talking. Whats your balance?
Part of calling oneself a software engineer (though that itself has been the subject of debate for a long time: e.g., here, here, here, and here) is the knowledge that you always have to keep learning...
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ICT4D and me
A couple of months ago I was asked by somebody at the Global South Forum to give a talk about some technology related topic. My initial idea was to talk about Taarifa but after some thought I decided...
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Enlightened Geek Listening
For some reason I never did any podcast listening until about 10 months ago. At that point I decided to give it a go and quickly assembled an initial list of subscriptions by googling around to see...
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