In trying to pull together ~50 tasks for the initial Python part of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, I ran into some interesting issues.
First: it is not easy to find "easy" or "intro" tasks for projects.
I sent out a lot of e-mails and posted a blog request …
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Based on the current "burn" rate of Python's task list for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, I would estimate that we will need more tasks within at most two weeks. The current mentors are certainly capable of coming up with more tasks, but we would welcome input and ideas …
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I recently gave an informal talk on Software Carpentry for the Caltech e-Science 101 course. Since even "Intro Software Carpentry" is a whole course of study, I obviously couldn't cover much, but I tried to motivate people to get interested. And, of course, I pushed testing. TESTING, DAMNIT!
Anyway, here …
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So, next May I'm starting as an assistant professor split between the Computer Science and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics departments at Michigan State U., and I'm interested in attracting as many good CS grad applicants as I can from the open source and bioinformatics communities. (I would also like to …
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So, I've been wanting to write a bit about why grad school and academia in general isn't necessarily a waste of time. Unfortunately I'm now a white male in a power position that depends on me sucking good people into grad school and then exploiting them, so this may end …
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Here's a small collection of links to take the edge off my general grumpiness at how much software really does suck. Presumably more will follow.
Firefox will be released with many known bugs.
I switched away from Firefox months ago, because it was so unstable and broken. I'm now using …
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Calling all Pythonistas,
What is your personal list of "modules you love and hate" -- stdlib modules that you use all the time, but that have weak documentation, poor examples, or are otherwise difficult to use the first time?
Here are five modules that I think could use some documentation help …
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