Shoaib Sufi
I am a project manager with a technical slant working at the myGrid group at the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester. I also work as Community Manager at the Software Sustainability...
View ArticleConcept Map – SQL Group By
Concept Map for SQL Group By Here is my concept map for SQL Group by (apologies it was late – I was on leave last week)
View ArticleMultiple choice – SQL GROUP BY … again ; )
(novice to competent) In the following SQL statement why is GROUP BY necessary to obtain the count of each type of house (Assuming a table called houses, with columns (house_type, house_id,...
View ArticleScreencast – XML debugging
So you have an XML file which won’t parse, being hierarchical it’s not just a matter of commenting out the line that the parser is complaining about; so how do you go about investigating where the...
View ArticleScreencast: formatting e-mail addresses using Vim
I originally said that I would do a video on XML debugging (teaching.software-carpentry.org/2013/06/28/screencast-xml-debugging), however the motivating example that I was going to use I was not able...
View ArticleData Management videos
I watched the Data Management videos at http://software-carpentry.org/v4/data/ For the first video which is at http://software-carpentry.org/v4/data/mgmt.html I felt the speed was a bit fast and I...
View ArticleTopic for final assignment: Making videos from scenic webcam stills
The idea: The context of this idea is as an applied shell scripting exercise. The aim is to make a video from a set of webcam stills based on a scenic webcam source. The hope is that through building a...
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