6. I'm Python!

   According to the silly language quiz, I'm Python!

   "You are Python. You are slower than others, but easier to understand. You are a minimalist, who doesn't like clutter."

   I don't like to think of myself as slow, but there you are -- that's what I must be. (Perhaps I have a …

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7. A new BLAST parser

   I spent the weekend hacking out a BLAST parsing package with pyparsing.

   BLAST is a really common bioinformatics tool used to search large-ish sequence databases, and the NCBI BLAST program is probably the single most heavily used program in bioinformatics by a long shot. Unfortunately, the NCBI folk have a …

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8. Next: the moooovie

   Just saw Next. Highly recommended, believe it or not -- it was a very intelligently done sci-fi movie.

   Go! See it! You will enjoy it, if you're in the mood for a bit of silliness and some good ol' fashioned paranormal powers!

   --titus

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9. PSF Summer Of Code planet up

   I haven't seen anyone announce this, so I guess I should: there's now a Planet Python/Summer of Code site, http://soc.python.org/, hosted by yours truly.

   Enjoy!

   --titus

   p.s. Regular blogging may resume shortly.

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10. Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry with Python

    (Here's the blurb that I came up with for my Advanced SWC class. This particular class instance isn't open to the public, but I'm not averse to giving it again.

    --titus)

    What you will learn:

    • how to use and extend builtin advanced types in Python;
    • how to lay out code …

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11. An e-mail to the Xerces c-users mailing list

    If anyone knows someone actually on the Xerces c-users mailing list or development team, could you please forward this on?

    (I sent it directly to the list mentioned on http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/feedback.html, but it hasn't shown up in the archives and I don't seem to have …

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12. Strangling Your Code and Growing Your Test Harness: The 9 Phases of Building Automated Tests Into Legacy Code

    I'm in the early throes of building tests into my Cartwheel project. Cartwheel was one of the two projects that inspired my Web testing project, twill, so naturally I'm happy to finally be putting twill to good use in my own projects. Naturally the transition from building tools for building …

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