Category Archives: research

Social Media: A Guide for Researchers

Posted on February 11, 2011 by cpjobling

Back in November, member of my social network Alan Cann asked me to participate in a project he was doing with the International Centre for Guidance Studies for the Research Information Network on Social Media for researchers.A few days later, … Continue reading →

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EPSRC PPE to be a Victim of Austerity

Posted on August 16, 2010 by cpjobling

In a circular email from the EPSRC forwarded to Engineering and Physical Sciences staff at my Institution via our Research Office, it seems like the public engagement of science is going to be an early victim of the Government’s new … Continue reading →

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Drupal for social networks

Posted on April 22, 2010 by cpjobling

While doing some research (i.e. Google search) on Drupal for social networking in education, I was intrigued to find out that the educational social network cloudworks.ac.uk was originally developed using Drupal. See Gráinne Conole and Juliette Culver, “Cloudworks: Social networking … Continue reading →

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Pivot My Data

Posted on March 31, 2010 by cpjobling

A couple of TED 2010 highlights that I stumbled on today. First Tim Berners-Lee reports on year one of his “More Data Now” campaign. Next I finally got around to watching Gary Flake on the data visualization features of Microsoft … Continue reading →

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RAE Results "Let loose the dogs of war"

Posted on December 18, 2008 by cpjobling

At midnight the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) released the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). All the newspapers will be busy analysing the results (although only the Guardian and the Times Higher seem to have … Continue reading →

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Generating graphs and maths in web pages using web services

Posted on February 15, 2008 by cpjobling

Once again Tony Hirst’s OUseful Info blog has led me to three new pieces of brilliant web technology. In his blog entry RESTful Image generation – When Text Just Won’t Do, Tony describes how MathTran (a Mathematics rendering service developed … Continue reading →

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More Prevarication

Posted on January 22, 2008 by cpjobling

While visiting InfoQ to read the article on Project Zero that prompted my last blog entry, I noticed that there was a video on Fortress (the new scientific programming language for the Java Virtual Machine that I first blogged about … Continue reading →

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Better Web Application Framework: Followup

Posted on January 22, 2008 by cpjobling

While going through my feed-reader today, I came across another potential framework, which I can add to the list mentioned earlier. This is Project Zero, an incubator project being developed by IBM. It uses the Java platform and the scripting … Continue reading →

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Better Web Application Framework

Posted on January 17, 2008 by cpjobling

For a web application that I am developing as part of a research project I have decided on using Python for the business logic. The reasons being that the application will use fixed-point binary arithmetic, units, and data output as … Continue reading →

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Crunchy Demos on ShowMeDo

Posted on January 8, 2008 by cpjobling

André Roberge has created three screencasts on the use of Crunchy. Crunchy is an interactive Python interpretor that runs inside the Firefox browser and can be used to create interactive Python tutorials, library documentation, demos and tests. The principle is … Continue reading →

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