6. Hey look, it works!

   Apparently the ipaddr module in Python 3.1 is disliked by some, and there was a reasonably robust discussion on python-dev about how it's wrong, wrong, wrong. Guido finally ruled: ixnay on the addr-pay.

   This is pretty relevant given the twitstorm caused by Zed Shaw's ludicrously self-confident rants about how …

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7. Upgrading PlanetPlanet.

   OK Folks, I know that planet.python.org and planetpython.org underwent a merger, and during the merger a new, or patched, or somehow upgraded version of planet went into effect on both. However, I cannot find a link to the info post any more.

   I would like to put …

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8. Proposal: the Python Buildhaus

   I just submitted a Mellon Award for Tech Collaboration nomination for the Python Buildhaus. What's that, you ask?

   The Python Buildhaus is a project to systematically build, test and release Open Source Python packages on Windows, Mac OS X, and a wide array of other UNIX architectures and operating systems …

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9. Easily Accessible Web-Based Tools For Analyzing Next-Generation Sequencing Data From Agricultural Animals

   Just submitted this on Thursday:

   Next generation sequencers are beginning to impact agricultural biology. Over the next few years, next generation sequencing will produce incredibly large datasets that will address structural (e.g., SNPs, CNVs, indels, methylation, translocations) and functional (e.g., RNA expression, transcription factor binding sites) variation in …

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10. Python in the humanities?

    I'm writing some proposals to expand support for Python infrastructure (think cross-platform build and test farms a la Snakebite) and for the Mellon Foundation application, I'd like to find out how Python is being used in the humanities. I found NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit; what else is big?

    thanks …

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11. TALK: Open Source at Microsoft: The Past, Present, and Future

    I'd like to invite you to attend the last of the Michigan State University CSE colloquia for the 2008-2009 academic year: jointly sponsored as an AT&T Visiting Lecturer by the MSU LCT, and the CSE department, Sam Ramji will speak about

    Open Source at Microsoft: The Past, Present and …

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12. Software testing in science

    As part of a CiSE submission I'm working on, I interviewed the lead developer on a scientific software package today. This software package is mainly used for evolutionary studies, and has a small but devoted following - ~6 developers and ~12 users locally, plus a few dozen users outside of MSU …

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