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bpython interpreter
A Python interactive interpreter that supports syntax hilighting, posting to pastebins, and other nifty features.
Default Parameter Values in Python
"Python’s handling of default parameter values is one of a few things that tends to trip up most new Python programmers (but usually only once)." I wish I had read this earlier.
Ubuntu -- Details of package texlive-publishers in jaunty
Use Ubuntu and LaTeX? Need a BibTeX bibliography style for a journal you wish to publish to? Chances are pretty good you can find that style in this package.
Linux equivalent of the Mac OS X "open" command - Stack Overflow
A: Yes. gnome-open, kde-open, and xdg-open. SO FTW!
Youtube - Learning from StackOverflow.com
[Found via Neil Saunders] Joel Spolsky gives a Google Tech Talk on the motivation behind Stack Overflow and how its design allowed the aggregation of a community for programmers built around good questions and superior answers.
PythonTidy
This script works great for cleaning up poorly formatted Python code. Nice little time saver.
PythonTidy
This script works great for cleaning up poorly formatted Python code. Nice little time saver.
NCBI Reference Sequence (RefSeq)
Contains an explanation of the RefSeq accession codes (e.g., YP_, NG_, etc.)
GenBank Sample Record
Stumbled upon this by serendipity. A GenBank record, fully explained, with clickable links on each pertinent part of the record. Super-handy reference.
My First Night Homeless
Great read. (As in, "You ought to.") "If you've never been homeless, it's tough to describe that first night sleeping on the street. The fear and disillusionment is almost paralyzing. You just go through the motions, but at the same time you're beating y
Redmine - Overview - Redmine
Similar in vein to Trac, but with support for distributed SCMs, this looks like a nice project management framework.
zsh: The last shell you’ll ever need! « Fried CPU
Ben's been trying to get me to switch to zsh. This is a pretty convincing advocacy article on zsh. Maybe I will switch, though I hear the vi mode sucks in comparison to bash's.
Heroku | How it Works
[Found via mndoci.] Heroku is both a Y Combinator funded company and a distributed computing architecture. I love the diagrams presented on this page, and it's worth looking at if only to see how to explain a complex system intuitively.
Git for the real world
One of the interesting things of this blog post is the suggestion of never using git rebase or git reset, which is how I feel about these tools, but see also "Rebasing v. Merging" in my bookmarks for an explanation on how the two differ and when to consid
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