Posts by Itay Zandbank

Software is like milk, if you let it sit out too long, it expires. Sure, your users might keep using a software package that is a little past its freshness date, but it will be a sour experience. Think of how much the environment running the software changes over time – the OS gets updated,…

One issue that is bothering a lot of participants in the DH 2019 conference in Utrecht, from which we’ve just returned, is “Software Sustainability.” They want the software they write now to work in the future as well, after they finish the project. This is a very reasonable concern – you want to know than…

I’ve just returned from the Digital Humanities conference in Utrecht, and very excited to share details of some of the workshops with those who were unfortunate enough to miss it. One workshop I went to was called “I am the one building the tool“. It was quite interesting. Around the table sat software engineers from…

In the world of Digital Humanities, there are few projects that provide a better opportunity for using bring up-to-the-minute technology to study ancient artifacts than a project involving the digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls. We’ve recently started consulting with the team working on the Scripta Qumranica Electronica, which is creating a digital scholarly edition…

This week has been eventful! After a few stressed days we have managed to fix long standing problems in several projects. We are satisfied. In the Scripta Qumranica Project we have managed to clean up the frontend quite a bit. Various rotation and scaling transformations were interfering with each other. After refactoring, tidying up and…

So let’s say you are a researcher with some data that you’ve gathered as part of your research that you want to display online. In other words, an online database. There are many ways to do that, many software packages, or programs that will help you. Here are The Research Software Company, we’ve just created…

We use Docker whenever possible. You should, too, it’s really awesome. Recently I’ve installed Docker on a new computer, and noticed all our containers stopped working properly there. They couldn’t map any of the volumes we were mapping. After careful investigation we’ve realized the problem was Windows links. All of our office computers have a…

One of the things I love most about life at The Research Software Company is the incredible variety of projects we see. We handle projects from all fields of research, including living and physical sciences, digital humanities, and even the intimidating sounding computational chemistry and bioinformatics.  To meet our clients’ diverse needs, we use a…