Over my 11 months at ISG, I have seen the office shift in a variety of ways. At the start of the ‘Academic Blogging’ internship, my days were fueled by Slack conversations and sweaty office clothes. In these last days, the warmth of approaching summer triggers past memories, since replaced by jumpers and tea. Being a part-time intern during […]

In 2011 developers from Heroku developed the Twelve-Factor App Methodology, a list of best practices for portability and resillience of web applications. Heroku recommend you should store configuration differences between deployments in the applications environment.

You may know that we are moving Learn to the cloud in the summer. This is a good thing – it will mean we can do more frequent updates to the application with less downtime. At the moment, we are restricted to a single update of the application over the …

Running a service like Noteable comes with its own particular set of problems. Academic colleagues who have used the service in their teaching always say that the service is great, which itself is very good, the problem comes when trying to solidify this into something that you can take to others. I’ve realised that it …

I’ve recently tried to become a little more involved in the wider Jupyter community and I have to say that it’s the most amazing community to be part of and work with. We at the University of Edinburgh have already managed to get funding for our nbgrader workshop which has been a great excuse to …

Firstly, can I state this is not a blog about how Aliens is the superior movie compared to Alien and needless to say we want to discuss Alien Resurrection (its slightly better than Sharknado). Instead this will be a quick post on bias and AI via the medium of character’s from the Alien franchise. Bias […]

In my current position I am working on helping to identify and deliver the technology that would assist in the delivery of Master level courses at scale. Before the pedagogy evangelists go all Opus Dei on me let me stress that I am a firm believer that technology is not the definitive answer alone (without good design or […]

Hi All, Recently I was working on adding a plupload plugin to the video-migrator site. It is a s tool that allows the file upload process to be executed in chunks. The video-migrator site uses Kaltura to process two video files and put them together as one movie, picture-in-picture. The installation and set up was fairly quick […]

This post is the seventh in a series of blog posts for Open Education Week. By Karen Bowman, University of Edinburgh Public Domain Image, Wikimedia Commons I am Karen, a member of the University of Edinburgh administrative staff. I spotted a new open learning experience for staff and students in Creative Learning Week 2018 with ‘no experience …

LTW inherited a number of websites from LTS when it was formed several years ago, including a number of standalone WordPress sites.  Most of these WordPress sites are kept up-to-date by the customer themselves, which means customers run theme and plugin updates through the WordPress administration screens when required. Recently, one of our customers updated […]