The ongoing debate about doctests (here, and links therein) seems to me to be somewhat silly.
doctests should be assessed by their utility to you and your project, in whatever role you happen to be using them. I personally find them to be very useful in API documentation, where they …
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As a new prof, I've been too busy to blog much. What am I doing?
Apart from all the normal academic crud (meeting with people, answering e-mail, doing paperwork, etc.) and parenting & home ownership stuff, I've been teaching my Intro to Database-Backed Web Programming course. This has been neither a …
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This post on why academics should work to integrate their research ideas with open source software in order to actually push forward on the OSS side (and presumably vice versa) is really good. I think such things could be applied in software testing, too, where there's a gulf between how …
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My last post initiated a discussion on the biology-in-python mailing list about BioPython, among other things. (Here is a link to the discussion, which is kind of long and unfocused.)
I'm happy that the bip list is serving as a place for people to interact with the BioPython maintainers to …
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Chris Lasher wrote a nice blog post naming me as a rabble rouser in the area of "Python in bioinformatics". His post raised a number of interesting points, some of which I'd like to discuss here on my blog.
First, why is Python not more dominant in bioinformatics? I really …
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I'm surprised I haven't seen this on planetpython yet...
...an emerging consensus in the scripting community holds that Python is the right solution for freshman programming. Ruby would also be a defensible choice.
(emphasis mine). Originally found via Lambda the Ultimate, and also passed onto me by Rich Enbody.
In …
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