Contributor license agreements are a thing. As much as I dislike the bureaucracy of them, they do provide some additional cover to the owners of an open source project, and some companies insist on having them. I find myself in such a situation in the SciTools organisation, for which I …

This evening I'm going to take a different approach to how I would normally blog. Rather than reporting the results of a technical investigation or highlighting a new/shiny package, I wanted to paint a realistic picture of the technical exploration process. As it happens, this particular investigation consumed a …