Monthly Archives: December 2008
Coast to Coast Bio 8 and a screencast from Ensembl
A new podcast, the final episode for 2008, of Coast to Coast Bio is now available. You can always subscribe on iTunes.
Up on Bioscreencast, you can see a screencast providing an overview of the new Ensembl website
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From merging rivals to code repositories
Image via WikipediaInteresting development today. Ruby on Rails and Merb have decided to merge rather than duke it out in the blogosphere as they had been doing? What does it mean? Well, Ruby and Ruby web frameworks are likely to be an increasingly visible part of the scientific software world in the coming [...]
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DSLs and scientific programming
I hope we can talk about this on Coast to Coast Bio tonight. In my exploration of proper programming and Ruby, I’ve seen a lot of discussion around Domain Specific Languages, and to try and understand the role that DSL’s could play in scientific programming.
The Wikipedia article on DSL’s starts with the [...]
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Web as platform: Twittering for stocks and proteins
Image via WikipediaContinuing to clear out my inbox, aka my brain, before I shut down for the year.
The other day I was listening to Technometria, with Eric Norlin as the special guest. The episode, about The Implicit Web touched upon a lot of interesting topics. Among other things they talked about Stocktwits, which [...]
And one more year is done