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 We are urgently looking for a lead engineer and a postdoctoral fellow level 2 for a couple of European projects.  

---The lead engineer will advance the development of a truly innovative web-based platform in Ruby on Rails for energy management. The engineer will interact with several scientists, developers and facility managers from our European partners. This is an opportunity to develop your skills in commercial software.

---The postdoc will be given student mentoring responsibilities beside development, other tasks may involve interacting with European partners, periodical writing of deliverables, reports and publications for events. 

 Posterous is a company that provide free blogging and group software. Ok, so there's lots of this kind of thing around.  Unlike many such services, I have found posterous to be simple and useful.  Here is a quick example of how incredibly useful this can be:

[1] Create a posterous account (quick and easy.  http://posterous.com)

[2] Create a site for storing papers you read (mine is http://fredspdfs.posterous.com)

 First entry.

 For 10 weeks this summer I did a Research internship under the ODCSS programme. My project title was "Assessing the Authoritativeness of Sources on Wikipedia", and it basically entailed creating an algorithm which would automatically rank Wikipedia pages as good or bad.

If you'd like to know more about it, I've written a wrap-up of the internship over at my blog.

 Anybody teaching sorting algorithms ought to spend 90 seconds watching this video.  Sonification of the techniques, with appropriate graphics, makes the differences between algorithms immediately apparent.  And it is beautiful.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g-iYGHpEA

From user Andrut (via Boing Boing)

WikiGolf Source Code

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I’m posting the source code for the WikiGolf game that I submitted for my Software Engineering Project II module. My team was called “The Channel 4 News Team” and we spend about 5 weeks doing this. I outlined the concept for the game in my previous post, but heres a quick rundown. Its a WikiGolf Graph Traversal Game:

 That sounds like a fun game doesn’t it? Well that was our project description for our Software Engineering Project module.

Using emacs can be of great help to achieve this. Follow the following steps:

First week back after the Christmas break and the exam results are out. I got a GPA of 3.53 out of 4.2. It isn't quite what I'd hoped for, but I guess I'll just have to work harder this semester to bring it up.

Now that I'm starting a new semester I've got a batch of 6 new modules which I'll do my usual little report on.

Core: