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As part of our celebrations of LGBT+ History Month 🌈 at Scott Logic, please join us for ‘Space Invaders: Queer representations in video games throughout history’. Guest speaker Sacha Coward will explore the full history of the representation of LGBTQ+ people, from the very dawn of video games all the way to today. 🗓️ Wed 16 Feb 🕥 10:30–11:30
If you missed our live webinar talk last week, you can watch it at your convenience on YouTube, with Molly Pace sharing 'AI: Lessons from Neuroscience' and James Leftley offering his insights on 'Resilient Systems and Experimentation'. These talks give you a flavour of our learning culture at Scott Logic, where our consultants regularly share their knowledge through breakfast and lunchtime talks like these. We'll be sharing more of them with you soon!
In the fourth part of his series of blog posts on Scrum Mastery, Frank Hubin explains how to succeed in your managerial mission as a Scrum Master – which is to bring together a team of experts and empower them to reach their natural best.
If you were a developer creating a calculator, you'd surely want to use some JavaScript, right? Not if you're Gurveer Arora. Aiming to expand his CSS knowledge, he challenged himself to create a calculator with only pure HTML and CSS 😮. In this post, he takes you step by step through how he did it.
"The course has also reminded me how important representation is; so, if you can’t see the person who looks like you ‘over there’, don’t shy away, go and *be* the person over there." For this post, Claire Cocks interviewed two of the graduates of last autumn's cohort of 'Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation in Scotland' – Jennifer Campbell and Atika Bennamane – who share their experiences of the course and some of the key learnings.
On Wed 26 Jan, join us to fend off the January blues with a couple of stimulating online talks! Molly Pace (Developer and Business Development Executive) will describe the key things AI can learn from neuroscience, and why these two disciplines need each other in order to progress successfully. James Leftley (Lead Developer) will encourage you to stop worrying and embrace failure in order to build more resilient systems. These talks will give you a flavour of our learning culture at Scott Logic, where our consultants regularly share their insights through breakfast and lunchtime talks like these. We look forward to sharing them with you! 🗓️ Wed 26 Jan 🕥 10:30-11:15
There is more information available to us than ever before, and it’s impossible for one person to make good use of it without help. Edward Brown recommends the Zettelkasten (translates to 'slip box') Method as a way of capturing and connecting what you learn for future reference, and shares some digital Zettelkasten tools to get you started.
On 8 December, the first users of the Payments Service that we're designing and developing with The Scottish Government successfully processed a batch of payments to citizens. In this post, Delivery Manager Steve Hunton describes the journey to achieving this clear, shared goal, and the ways of working that made it possible.
Apply now to be a Graduate Test Engineer at either our Newcastle or Leeds office to get your career in software off to the very best start! Find out more about all the great opportunities we offer to graduates and submit your application by Monday 10 January. Assessment and interview days are 12–14 January, so be sure to keep them free!
The recent Log4j vulnerability demonstrated once again how reliant we have become on open source projects and how exposed we are to their sustainability challenges. In this blog post, Colin Eberhardt argues that the solution is not to throw money at the problem, but instead to adopt the well-understood vehicle of CSR to wake businesses up to the shared responsibility we all have for maintaining this precious, yet fragile, resource.
