Flex Sparkline
February 8th, 2010
Sparklines are described by their inventor, Edward Tufte, as “data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics”. They are an ideal tool for displaying trends for single entries within large data sets, for example, stock prices. As well as the standard miniature line series, Tufte’s original specification introduces a ternary sparkline, a.k.a. win-loss sparkline, where small columns [...]
Communication is the Key
January 27th, 2010
On January 21, Scott Logic's Colin Eberhardt spoke at "An Introduction to Agile Methodology – Get a Head Start in 2010".
Presentation on Agile Development
January 27th, 2010
Last week I gave a presentation on Agile Development for an event hosted by Codeworks and Sunderland Software City. This blog post is a brief review of my presentation and the event itself.
The event was titled, “An Introduction to Agile Methodology – Get a Head Start in 2010″, which was suitably broad for my liking! [...]
Scott Logic employee wins Gold Award
January 22nd, 2010
Many congratulations to Scott Logic employee Adrian Conlin, who recently received a Gold Award from the National Blood Service for donating blood for the 50th time.
Scott Logic joins NEBytes
January 22nd, 2010
Scott Logic attended the launch of NE Bytes, a group that will be organising monthly IT based talks in the North East of England.
Scott Logic and the Hairy Haggis
January 20th, 2010
Scott Logic Running Club has entered two teams in the 2010 Edinburgh Marathon Hairy Haggis Team Relay.
Scott Logic employees look to the future
January 20th, 2010
Scott Logic employees got out their crystal balls this week to predict how the financial markets will perform over the coming year.
Scott Logic enters Mix10K competition
January 15th, 2010
Six of Scott Logic's consultants have submitted entries for Mix10K, a competition to demonstrate smart coding by creating a web application using no more than 10 kilobytes of code.
Scott Logic is a Microsoft Certified Partner
January 15th, 2010
Scott Logic is proud to announce that it has qualified as a Certified Partner in the Microsoft Partner Network.
My Mix10k entry – Old Skool demo – plus a few tips
January 7th, 2010
This blog post is about my entry to the Mix10k code competition, and old-skool demo, plus a few tips about how to keep you code size to below 10k.
The mix10k challenge, where you are given 10k to create a Silverlight / HTML5 application, has been on my mind for a while … the Christmas vacation [...]