Edinburgh Book Club September Meeting

We are re-attempting to get the Edinburgh book club going. We plan to have the meeting in September to give everyone who is interested a chance to vote on the book they want and read the book first.

The choices are:

Which book would you like to read? Click here to take the survey.

Scottish Developers Book Club Glasgow July

At the moment we are looking to find the book that you want to read for the July Book Club meeting.

The choices are:

Which book would you like to read? Click here to take survey.

ComponentOne sponsor DDD Scotland 2011

We would like to thank ComponentOne for sponsoring DDD Scotland 2011.

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Introduction to Parallelisation talk

Here are all the examples from this evening’s introductory talk on Parallelisation by Colin Mackay.

Talk Opening Slide

Job: 3 Software Developer in Dundee

We’ve just received an email about the following job:

Job advert and application procedure available from: http://bit.ly/hDfLzS and http://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_uod01.asp?newms=jj&id=67758&newlang=1

  • Reference Number        LS0056
  • Job Title       Software Developers
  • College/SASS    College of Life Sciences
  • School/Directorate      Life Sciences Research
  • Grade   Grade 8 (£36,862 – £44,016)
  • Job Category    Research
  • Closing Date    27 April 2011

Summary of Job Purpose and Principal Duties
The Health Informatics Centre at Ninewells Hospital (HIC) and the Open Microscopy Environment Consortium OME) are seeking three Software Developers for our development efforts to create an international centre for  Biomedical Informatics. The ideal applicants will possess great communication and development skills and will join an existing team be capable of driving a successful development effort.

The team, based at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre and Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, in the laboratories of Prof Jason Swedlow and Prof Andrew Morris is involved in a collaborative, open source development effort that will deliver informatics tools for managing clinical and genetic data for clinical research projects, initially focused on large longitudinal datasets that track the development and progression of type 2 diabetes.

The project leverages existing developers from the OME project (for more information, see http://openmicroscopy.org) and will deliver a secure, adaptable framework for data access and analysis. Successful applicants will interact very closely with clinical researchers and software developers based in Scotland, Germany, Italy, and the USA.

Responsibilities: 

  • Mapping and importing existing clinical data into OME’s OMERO data model
  • Continue development of an existing Java server-based Application.
  • Extend existing Hibernate object-relational mappings.
  • Adapt data analysis tools built by leading clinical research groups to the OMERO API.

Requirements: 

  • Experience with database-driven application design and data modelling.
  • Experience with a major RDBMS.
  • Excellent skills in Java and SQL
  • Excellent object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming skills.
  • Experience with Java server development.
  • Experience with Linux, Mac OS X or any proprietary Unix flavour
  • Strong collaborative skills with an eye towards efficiency and creativity.

Pluses:

  • Experience developing and deploying Java client-server applications in Linux and/or Windows
  • Experience with a procedural SQL language (PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, PL/pgSQL, SQL PL).
  • Experience with Oracle or PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with ZeroC’s ICE.
  • Experience with any NoSQL facility.
  • Experience in an open source development project.
  • C, C++ and/or Python programming experience.

Additional Information

These are full-time positions, in the UK (Dundee, Scotland), appointment is to commence during or after Jan 2011, for a period of one year. Salary range is based on Grade 8 but is dependent upon experience.

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