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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A bevy of Erlang links has been appearing on my radar screen. In part this is probably because I've become moderately addicted to Reddit, which is Erlang Cheerleading Central these days, but I'm also just plain interested in Erlang.
Dijkstra discusses CS education but I really disagree with him. He …
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Grig and the agile-testing list both sent me some interesting testing links today.
foo gui writes in Integrating Selenium IDE/RC and FitNesse about a neat trick where UI tests can be run via Selenium from FitNesse. (The subtitle is "Automated Web Testing Bliss" ;)
Jeremy Miller discusses …
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I'm going to be visiting Michigan for a conference (on Mackinaw Island) at the end of September, where I'll be talking about my thesis research. Following said conference, I'll be hanging out at Michigan State U. for the week of Oct 2-6; I'll be giving a talk on Agile Testing …
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I've said some mean things about BioPython in the past -- that it's broken, that it's crufty, etc. One prominent former BioPython developer responded with the very reasonable question of why I wasn't fixing it, if it was so broken. The answer, of course, is that I've been working on my …
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Ok, I've just enabled my ocomments plugin for pyblosxom on this blog.
ocomments is a hacked version of the comments plugin that keeps track of users and lets me approve users and posts individually. Hopefully it will let me keep the blog spam free while letting regular posters comment freely …
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