I'm continuing to build a testing infrastructure for Cartwheel. One thing to test is the XML-RPC API for controlling the server remotely; this lets users upload sequences, create analyses, and download results programmatically.
Now, doing functional testing of an XML-RPC server is just as annoying as testing any Web app …
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I've been posting under Andrew Kuchling's name on planetpython.org for a while now, and today it appeared that all was fixed! Sadly, it turns out that my new posts are the result of me posting via my new blog, which is then syndicated to my old blog, which in …
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I spent the better part of today refitting Cartwheel for testing. Cartwheel is a bioinformatics framework that is used by a few hundred people; it's mostly a database-backed Web site, with a compute server queueing system tacked on.
Cartwheel is one of the two sites that got me interested in …
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Not only is MIT teaching Python, but it appears that MSU is going to try it out for their intro course. Hooray!
--titus
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Dear lazyweb, what's the situation with Java and C++ OODBs? I seem to recall hearing vaguely good things about some Java OODBs from real people (i.e. not marketing flacks) but I haven't kept that information anywhere. (I did find this amusing article on how O/R mapping is the …
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Spent a really frustrating hour or two this weekend figuring out why Apache 2.1 wasn't working on vallista.idyll.org.
The symptoms of the problem were that Apache would not serve static pages at all. I could serve dynamic pages (in fact, I "patched" my few static sites by …
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While on travels (visiting the Computational Biology Initiative in San Antonio, Texas) I read two fiction books that were a cut above my normal sci-fi and fantasy reading material.
The Geographer's Library, by Jon Fasman was an entertaining read about alchemists. It took the same sort of pseudo-intellectual approach to …
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