We just finished the second day of a workshop on Docker at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. I was invited to organize the workshop after some Berkeley folk couldn't make our Davis workshop in November, and so I trundled on down for two days to give it a try …
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Recently I was asked by someone at a funding organization about the term "hardening software"; I wrote a blog post asking others what they thought, and this got a number of great comments (as well as spurring Dan Katz to write a blog post of his own). I'd already written …
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I just received an e-mail from someone in the funding world who thinks a lot about software, and they were interested in any thoughts I might have on the term "software hardening", and its practice. To quote,
This is about making research software more robust, more easily usable and possibly …read more
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When I decided to move to UC Davis, I was also seizing the opportunity to dramatically expand my training efforts. At Davis, it was made clear to me that I could substitute skills training -- in whatever guise I chose -- for my for-credit teaching; in consequence, I'd asked for money for …
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On Friday, Emily Dolson, a doctoral student at Michigan State University in Charles Ofria's lab, walked a bunch of us through d3.js for data visualization. Crucially, she did this from Michigan, and in addition to a local classroom, taught three other classrooms -- one in Florida, one in Virginia, and …
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Every year since 2010, I've been the primary organizer for a summer workshop on Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data. In 2010 and 2011, I was funded internally by the Gene Expression in Disease and Development group at MSU; since 2012, I've had a $50,000/yr grant from the NIH …
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Continuing our efforts to bring bioinformatics training to a wider audience while maintaining small class sizes, we're trying something new! This Friday at noon Eastern/9am Pacific, Emily Dolson will be teaching a half day d3.js lesson to a class at Michigan State University …
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