Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
SourceForge has announced that nominations are open for this year's Community Choice Awards. This time around, any project can be nominated, not just SF-hosted ones. So please, nominate your favorite open source project Awards will be handed out at OSCON 2008.
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
"The Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) invites you to attend the 4th ISCB Student Council Symposium. This student-organized event will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Center in Toronto on July 18th. It will bring together bioinformatics and computational biology students for scientific exchange, ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Source Code for Biology and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal from BioMed Central devoted to, well, source code for biology and medicine. It's been around for at least a couple of years; based on a quick scan of four of their most popular papers, they seem to cover everything from ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Registration is now open---it looks like it'll be a good hands-on content-ful show.
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Todd Veldhuizen's UbiGraph dynamic graph visualization software is now available. The demos are very cool (though they could use a soundtrack); you should give it a try.
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Via Dobbs Code Talk (which has a brief summary), a pointer to a Google talk about "How to Protect Your Open Source Project From Poisonous People".
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The New York Times ran a piece today on the under-representation of women in the sciences---in the Fashion and Style section, of course, because hey, women don't read the business pages, do they? *sigh*
Later: a friend pointed me at this piece in the Boston Globe, titled "The Freedom to Say ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
...or maybe even dinner, if you will build a usable table differencing tool. I have some SQLite database files under version control that I need to merge (updated on my laptop yesterday while flying, not remembering that I'd made some updates on my desktop machine as well). Ditto spreadsheets: I ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I left Toronto for Austin mid-day Wednesday, and got back at midnight last night. Lots happened in the interim, so here's a linkandthoughtdump (which I bet actually is one word in German):
Gave a talk about Beautiful Code to the Austin Python Users' Group Wednesday at Enthought's swanky offices. (They're ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Some of our summer interns have started blogging about their projects:
Dojo Form Editor
DrProject Admin
DrProject IRC Integration
DrProject Testing & Documentation
DrProject Ticketing
Flare Dataflow Editor
Hackystat Data Visualization
Hackystat and Visual Studio
OpenAFS Console
OS161 Visualization
SlashID
Web-CAT
I'll add more as I get them.
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