Matt Harrison's post, Gnome devs too lazy for python?, and the linked post by Thomas Vander Stichele strongly typed, are both really entertaining and illuminating.
I preserve them here for my own reference.
--titus
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Principles and Practices of Scientific Origonology
heh, this applies to many fields, I think...
Luis Ibanez This presentation is a satire of the current obsession with intellectual property, innovation and originality that plagues the field of medical image analysis. The presentation makes the point that most Journals and Conferences focus on Originality and despise Reproducibility and …
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Translation tasks for GHOP
So, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest is going quite well for Python, with about 25 additions/reworkings of core CPython documentation and tests and dozens of contributions to other projects.
One of the really unique opportunities that GHOP offers for the Python community is being underutilized, however, and that …
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Conversions between classes in Python
My future colleague, Bill Punch at MSU, is teaching Python to intro CS students. He asks (slightly edited):
In C++, you can write multiple constructors, each one taking a different type and/or number of arguments. Let's say we are writing a RationalNumber class. I could write 2 constructors:
class …
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A Visual Guide to Version Control
A long time ago, Kalid Azad sent me an e-mail about his Visual Guide to Version Control. Good stuff!
--titus
Legacy Comments
Posted by Kalid on 2007-12-09 at 15:01.
Hi Titus, thanks for the mention, I hope your readers find it useful.
Posted by Chris Lasher on 2007-12-09 at …
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Coming up with GHOP tasks at your Python Interest Group meetings
If anyone is having a Python Interest Group meeting this month, please consider devoting 15-30 minutes to coming up with random task ideas for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest.
Briefly,
read more- tasks must involve Python and Open Source;
- non-core pet projects are welcome;
- building screencasts, updating documentation, and adding unit …
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Looking for a bioinformatics position?
My Computer Science department at Michigan State University is looking for an assistant professor! We are casting a fairly wide net (databases, graphics, medical imaging, and bioinformatics) but I'd really like to attract a bioinformatician.
The Computer Science department at MSU is a nice, small department …
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