Welcome to my blog. I will mainly be blogging about boring technical things related to my work on the RIF. The Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF) is a freely-available Epidemiology application that supports two types of environmental health activities and I have been leading a small team working on it more some years now. It is nearly done which is a good time to share some of the lessons and experiences. We made some mistakes along the way, learnt a lot and have built a fantastic piece of software.