I'm at PyCon, and I have a tip for people: don't stay at the same hotel as everyone else.
My hotel room Internet connection is great, perhaps in part because I'm not sharing it with the rest of the PyCon attendees! (Plus it's free -- the DoubleTree wireless Internet doesn't charge …
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The blognet is full of people posting their own opinions, and that's a good thing. What is a little less supportable is flawed argumentation.
I recently spent some time discussion a post about software engineering; I was trying to figure out why the author thought what he did. The annoying …
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I spent some time over the last week adding fairly simple motif searching to Cartwheel, my bioinformatics site for biologists doing cis-regulatory analysis of genomic sequence. The new features include the ability to define and search with IUPAC and position-weight matrix (PWM) motifs, as well as visualization of motif search …
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I'm having trouble with some tests of a PostgreSQL-based system. Briefly, I have a set of functional tests that
- create a new database
- populate it with a data model
- run a Web server (in-process)
- test the integrated Web server - database functionality
The tests are now slow enough that I'm averse …
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Noah and Grig have been CCing me on a conversation about JoelOnChecklists and Grig's post. Noah's writing a book chapter on this stuff, and asked for some tips.
Here are mine.
First, I have a bunch of individual twill scripts in a directory that are run every hour. These scripts …
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Tracy recently asked me if there were any good guidelines about how to write configuration files -- not coding-level guidelines, but guidelines on structure and content.
I was unable to come up with anything: my Google-fu failed me, and my DevonThink database was silent (although it did have some nice testing …
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