6. Testing Cartwheel, and How Testing Improves Code

   Over the last few days, I put a bunch of time into my ongoing refit of Cartwheel.

   Cartwheel is a sizeable toolkit for doing bioinformatic sequence analysis; it's got a Web interface, a batching and queuing system built on PostgreSQL, and a client library for manipulating things over XML-RPC. So …

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7. This toy helicopter is great

   I bought my wife a toy plane for Christmas, and we promptly broke it. While scouting for ways to fix it, I came across this helicopter which has to be the single coolest toy I've ever had. My brother and I are absolutely addicted to flying this thing; sadly, its …

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8. Privacy Invasion is Good?

   The Slashdot forum managers have approved yet another troll message: In Cameras Help Cops Catch a Killer, they ask whether or not the use of cameras to help catch a killer justifies the increasing use of surveillance in public spaces.

   The answer is "no".

   There are a couple of ways …

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9. GalCon Strategy Guide

   I just wrote a small GalCon strategy guide, available here. Comments welcome.

   --titus

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   Legacy Comments

   Posted by Brian Dorsey on 2007-01-05 at 13:24.

   I think we should play some GalCon at PyCon this year! (Your earlier
   post about GalCon got me completely addicted.)    Take care,    -Brian
   

   Posted by Titus …

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10. Happy New Year, everyone!

    I hope everyone has (or had!) a good New Year's eve, and let's hope that 2007 is even better!

    --titus

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11. Books

    A few books that stand out in my mind, among those that I've read recently:

    The Historian

    Middlesex

    The Time Traveler's Wife

    Calamity Physics

    The Geographer's Library

    The Codex

    Briefly, The Historian is a fabulous book about the search for Vlad Dracula. Middlesex is ... hard to explain. It's a Pulitzer …

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12. Here's some holiday randomness for y'all.

    A little haiku-ish poem from Tracy:

    purr goes the kitty
    covering papers and notes
    lying on the desk
    

    (As you might guess from this, our cat likes to lie on top of papers in order to get our attention.)

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