Inspired by the awesomeness of disqus on my other sites, I wanted to make it possible to enable disqus on my sites on ReadTheDocs. A bit of googling led me to Mikko Ohtamaa's excellent work on the Plone documentation, where a blinding flash of awesomeness hit me and I realized …
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There's been a lot of discussion about PyCon talks that we do want to see. Here's a brief list of those I don't want to see, for those of you considering a submission -- in no particular order.
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I've just moved my blog over to Pelican, a static blog generator that takes in reStructuredText and spits out, well, this! I'm now using Disqus for commenting, too.
The main motivations for the move (apart from slightly better theming) were to escape dynamic-blog-land in favor of static-blog-land, while enabling a …
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I'm writing this on my way back from Stockholm, where I attended a workshop on the 4th Paradigm. This is the idea (so named by Jim Gray, I gather?) that data-intensive science is a distinct paradigm from the first three paradigms of scientific investigation -- theory, experiment, and simulation. I was …
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I desperately need something to run and test things at the command line, both for course documentation (think "doctest" but with shell prompts) and for script testing (as part of scientific pipelines). At the 2011 testing-in-python BoF, Augie showed us cram, which is the mercurial project's internal test code ripped …
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I just parachuted in on (and heli'd out of?) the Beyond the Genome conference in Boston. I gave a very brief workshop on using EC2 for sequence analysis, which seemed well received. (Mind you, virtually everything possible went wrong, from lack of good network access to lack of attendee computers …
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