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HIFIS Software Services' mission is to empower scientists of any domain to implement and to perpetuate modern scientific software development principles in order to make research software engineering more sustainable.
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Helmholtz Hacky Hour #20
Why don't you share your source code? Concerns about and solutions for common problems with code sharing.
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Project organization for software development in research Important but often neglected in research -> project organization in software development
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What could go wrong? Horror Stories in (collaborative) scientific computation The moment they realized their work of the past years was almost wasted. …
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How to select the right tools in software development? How to avoid not to get lost inside multiple tools available when choosing for software develop …
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My preferred data visualization tools There are hundreds of libraries and tools to solve that, but which one is the best?
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Helmholtz services that can assist you in research software development These tools might make your daily work easier...
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Automation in research software development Automation as one of the keys towards reproducible research.
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Rewriting code for another system / programming language TBA
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Pitfalls in data visualization Why people don't understand exponential growth and what color it has.
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Time and quality in research software development - a toxic relationship TBA
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Working effectively with bad or old code When the code is older than the programmer and your research depends on a cryptic combination of characters…
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When to parallelize your software It is running for three hours while only doing simple calculations...
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Tools for handling (parametric) 3D-models Plotting in 2D is nice, but sometimes it is simply not enough.
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