Platforms, Languages and Packaging

This lecture outlines the decisions which need to be made early in a software project regrading the management of a professional sustainable software product or website. This lecture looks at the many different platforms and languages that can be used on these and outlines the differences between interpreted and "native" languages. We also outline the importance of using revision control systems properly and how these are essential for both distribution and supporting of software. Finally this lecture describes how to build a package for the Debian Linux platform.

Mobile App Development Platforms

Tutorial Resources

Introduction to JavaScript Programming

These are the resources for an introductory lecture in JavaScript programming, intended to support use of node.js and divorced from browser programming.

Open Data

Original material Taken from training material by the Open Data Institute. Later material from Keynote at Go Open!

WAIS seminar: Publication Workflows for Scientific Data

Wednesday 23rd April 2014 Speaker(s): Willi Hasselbring Organiser: Leslie Carr Time: 23/04/2014 11:00-11:50 Location: B32/3077 File size: 669 Mb Abstract For good scientific practice, it is important that research results may be properly checked by reviewers and possibly repeated and extended by other researchers. This is of particular interest for "digital science" i.e. for in-silico experiments. In this talk, I'll discuss some issues of how software systems and services may contribute to good scientific practice. Particularly, I'll present our PubFlow approach to automate publication workflows for scientific data. The PubFlow workflow management system is based on established technology. We integrate institutional repository systems (based on EPrints) and world data centers (in marine science). PubFlow collects provenance data automatically via our monitoring framework Kieker. Provenance information describes the origins and the history of scientific data in its life cycle, and the process by which it arrived. Thus, provenance information is highly relevant to repeatability and trustworthiness of scientific results. In our evaluation in marine science, we collaborate with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

WAIS seminar: Application Performance Monitoring and Architecture Discovery with Kieker

Wednesday 23rd April 2014 Speaker(s): Willi Hasselbring Organiser: Leslie Carr Time: 23/04/2014 14:00-15:00 Location: B32/3077 File size: 802Mb Abstract The internal behavior of large-scale software systems cannot be determined on the basis of static (e.g., source code) analysis alone. Kieker provides complementary dynamic analysis capabilities, i.e., monitoring/profiling and analyzing a software system's runtime behavior. Application Performance Monitoring is concerned with continuously observing a software system's performance-specific runtime behavior, including analyses like assessing service level compliance or detecting and diagnosing performance problems. Architecture Discovery is concerned with extracting architectural information from an existing software system, including both structural and behavioral aspects like identifying architectural entities (e.g., components and classes) and their interactions (e.g., local or remote procedure calls). In addition to the Architecture Discovery of Java systems, Kieker supports Architecture Discovery for other platforms, including legacy systems, for instance, inplemented in C#, C++, Visual Basic 6, COBOL or Perl. Thanks to Kieker's extensible architecture it is easy to implement and use custom extensions and plugins. Kieker was designed for continuous monitoring in production systems inducing only a very low overhead, which has been evaluated in extensive benchmark experiments. Please, refer to http://kieker-monitoring.net/ for more information.

WAIS seminar: Computer Science, the Revolution in Schools

Tuesday 22nd April 2014 Speaker(s): Sue Sentance Organiser: Leslie Carr Time: 22/04/2014 15:00-16:00 Location: B32/3077 File size: 698 Mb Abstract Until recently, "computing" education in English schools mainly focused on developing general Digital Literacy and Microsoft Office skills. As of this September, a new curriculum comes into effect that provides a strong emphasis on computation and programming. This change has generated some controversy in the news media (4-year-olds being forced to learn coding! boss of the government’s coding education initiative cannot code shock horror!!!!) and also some concern in the teaching profession (how can we possibly teach programming when none of the teachers know how to program)? Dr Sue Sentance will explain the work of Computing At School, a part of the BCS Academy, in galvanising universities to help teachers learn programming and other computing skills. Come along and find out about the new English Computing Revolution - How will your children and your schools be affected? - How will our University intake change? How will our degrees have to change? - What is happening to the national perception of Computer Science?

Análisis de la Comunicación no Verbal en el discurso de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. Un acercamiento a las nuevas estrategias de comunicación política en Colombia. Período 1944 - 1948

Esta investigación busca demostrar cómo las estrategias comunicativas no verbales, empleadas por Gaitán, influyeron de manera positiva en su discurso político. Así, el dominio consciente e inconsciente de elementos no verbales funciona estratégicamente para complementar su discurso.

Basic HTML & XML

Lecture 1: Basic XML & HTML5 Lecture slides and exercises for reading and writing basic XML and HTML

Entre amigos y enemigos: análisis del cambio en el estereotipo de los musulmanes en el cine de Hollywood después del 11s y su impacto sobre la legitimación de las acciones políticas de EE.UU. en Medio Oriente

En esta monografía se explora la relación entre estereotipos y proceso de legitimación de proyectos y acciones políticas, tomando como referencia la imagen de los musulmanes en el cine de Hollywood antes y después del 11s. A través del análisis de una serie de producciones cinematográficas (“Mentiras verdaderas” de James Cameron, “Decisión Critica” de Stuart Baird, ‘Syriana” de Stephen Gaghan , “Red de Mentiras” de Ridley Scott , “El Reino” de Peter Berg , “Zona de Miedo” de Kathryn Bigelow y “Iron Man” de Jon Favreau ), se identifica los contenidos del estereotipo musulmán, para luego poner estos elementos en dialogo con los procesos y acciones políticas de los EEUU en Medio Oriente. La monografía se construye bajo una propuesta teórica en la que la información valorativa puede actúa como reforzador de la legitimidad de las acciones del gobierno de los EEUU, con respecto a la necesidad de intervenir sobre los gobiernos hostiles a los EEUU en Medio Oriente.

Intellectual Property, Copyright and the Web

Some material used with permission from Frank Bott

Net Neutrality

Some discussion points about net neutrality

Análisis de la incidencia de las tic en el fortalecimiento de la inclusión y participación ciudadana en Colombia: estudio de caso programa gobierno en línea 2008-2010

El objetivo general de esta investigación es analizar el proceso de incorporación del gobierno electrónico en Colombia, así como evaluar el impacto de las TIC en asuntos del gobierno y su relación con los ciudadanos, puesto que en la práctica se desea incrementar la participación en asuntos públicos y una inclusión ciudadana a través de las TIC. El éxito del Gobierno en Línea dependerá de la transparencia y confianza creciente entre el gobierno y los ciudadanos y toma como referencia la estrategia de Gobierno en Línea 2008-2010. Será usada, una metodología exploratoria y descriptiva sobre la base de documentos bibliográficos y publicaciones periódicas y académicas.