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• Commented on Lacuna Expanse Goes Open Source
  Excellent. Thanks, JT....
• Posted [UPDATED] Beginning Perl For Bioinformatics to ubu

  One of my favorite tweeps asked for some up-to-date resources to help her teach Perl to her university's Biology students. "Biology students?", you ask. Yes! If you've mostly used Perl for Web development and systems support, you might be surprised to learn that Perl is huge in the…

• Commented on [UPDATED] Beginning Perl For Bioinformatics
  Wow, people still use German? Who knew? ;-> I'm kidding, of course. Thanks for the link....
• Commented on [UPDATED] Beginning Perl For Bioinformatics
  Fair enough, but, consider the audience: these are people who, while smart, know absolutely nothing about programming. It's more important, then, to offer introductions that address problems that they are already familiar with so they have at least some conceptual...
• Commented on The First Test I Always Write
  There are a couple of reasons to do that sort of very low-level testing. First, debugging is a process of elimination. If something isn't working as expected, you factor out the things that it couldn't be as a way of...
• Commented on The First Test I Always Write
  Ooo! I Hadn't seen CompileTests before. I should really check for new dzil plugins more often. :-)...
• Posted The First Test I Always Write to ubu

  Nothing fancy, I just find myself copying this test into t/ directory of every new project so I thought others might find it useful, too.

  Basically, it just runs Test::More's use_ok(…

• Commented on 2011 Perl QA Hackathon - Day 2
  Lots of thoughts on this (mostly in the "yep, that's something people often think they want at a certain very early stage of development but never ends up being what they actually want once the rubber starts hitting the road"...
• Posted Unscrewing The Pooch to ubu
  

  As many of you may already know, a group of us got together a couple of years ago to fo…

Comment Threads

• pyrimidine commented on [UPDATED] Beginning Perl For Bioinformatics

  Speaking as the maintainer of BioPerl, I partially agree (and gladly welcome any help with the code!). If you can specify exactly what you find that is terrible then maybe we can focus on tackling those areas first.

• Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish commented on [UPDATED] Beginning Perl For Bioinformatics

  Scientific programming by its nature is a messy enterprise compared to the more production oriented commercial projects that most programmers are used to. On the other hand I saw a text mining with perl book that while useful on the scientific aspects of NLP programming encouraged some pretty awful perl practices. I think it's the job of us perl literate scientific programmers to provide exemplars of good practice in our fields wherever possible.

• awwaiid (Brock Wilcox) commented on Lacuna Expanse Goes Open Source

  I linked this to my coworkers for some good Moose and DBIx::Class reading. Thanks!

  --Brock
  

• JT Smith commented on Lacuna Expanse Goes Open Source

  I hope it is a good use of both. Lacuna represents my first use of Plack, Moose, DBIx::Class an a lot of other modules for that matter. =)

• rjbs.manxome.org commented on Lacuna Expanse Goes Open Source

  That's great news, JT. Thanks!