In the spirit of Greg's Not on the Shelves post about books he'd like to see, here's one class I'd like to see taught:
Test-Driven Web Development
This class will introduce students to test-driven software engineering through the development of a database-backed Web site. Student development will be driven by …
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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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Here's some pointlessly complex systems administration stuff.
I spent an hour or two today debugging my spam filtering setup. Most of my e-mail goes through Caltech, which does spam tagging nicely, but recently there's been a substantial increase in e-mail coming through various hosted domains. This bypasses Caltech's tagging, so …
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0iCLww
(Things start to heat up in the 4th minute.)
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corebio, the joint effort by a junta of California bioinformaticians to replace BioPython with something we like better, is proceeding interestingly. So far we have discussed the following issues:
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- what license? (BSD)
- what focus? (sequence manipulation & parsing)
- what about binary extensions? (focus on API, provide fast implementations where appropriate, but …
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