Our sequencing analysis course ended last Friday, with an overwhelmingly positive response from the students. The few negative comments that I got were largely about organizational issues, and could be reshaped as suggestions for next time rather than as condemnations of this year's course.
The 23 students -- most with no …
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So, I've been teaching a course on next-generation sequence analysis for the last week, and one of the issues I had to deal with before I proposed the course was how to deal with the volume of data and the required computation.
You see, next-generation sequence analysis involves analyzing not …
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A new meme was born at PyCon 2010: The Testing Goat.
Or, "Be Stubborn. Obey the Goat."
The goat actually emerged from the Testing In Python Birds of a Feather session at PyCon, where Terry Peppers used slides full of goat in his introduction. This was apparently an overreaction to …
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I just finished teaching Concepts in Database-Backed Web Development for the second time -- the post-mortem from the first course is here.
In the course, the students implement a reasonably complete HTTP server from the socket library on up, and integrate CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), and a little bit of databases into …
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I've recently turned my basilisk eye from Web testing and code coverage analysis to continuous integration, as you can see from my PyCon '10 talk and my UCOSP proposal, not to mention everyone wants a pony.
There's some confusion about what "continuous integration" means (see Martin Fowler on CI) so …
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or, "those python-dev people are awesome."
My experience with the Python bug tracker has been pretty sparse and largely limited to some of the eternaissues like "make HTMLParser deal with even more broken HTML" that never really get resolved because they're not very important and don't have a champion. So …
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As I wrote over the weekend, the Google Highly Open Participation contest (intended to get high-school students involved in open source work) may be run again this winter. I say "may", because quite a bit of work needs to be done on the GHOP hosting app, Melange.
We in the …
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