Fwd: Call for help: is anyone interested in helping me maintain the ruby ensembl api? Very little work, but need contact point #ruby#ensembl (via http://friendfeed.com/jandot...)
"Mark Wotton wrote Hubris, a bridge which makes it possible to call Haskell code from Ruby. You'll need to install ghc which comes up with Haskell platform in order to be able to compile jhc (John's Haskell Compiler). You should notice that jhc will only work under Linux or Mac."
- imabonehead
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Fixed my DAVID API script after changes to their site's HTML broke it. That's the problem with scraping. DAVID should get with the program and offer a real API. http://github.com/chrisam...
"Sun Microsystems' JRuby team is leaving the company to work for application hosting company Engine Yard, citing the uncertainty surrounding Sun's planned acquisition by Oracle. Sun hired Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, often called "the JRuby Guys," about two-and-a-half years ago so they could work full time on JRuby, an implementation of the Ruby programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. Some months later Sun hired Nick Sieger, another key JRuby developer. All three will start work at Engine Yard next week. Nutter said they decided to leave Sun largely because of the uncertainty resulting from its acquisition by Oracle, a deal that's expected to close later this summer pending regulatory approvals."
- imabonehead
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"Engine Yard, which offers hosting for Ruby on Rails applications, is hiring the team because it's seeing increased use of JRuby by Java Web developers and lacks expertise in that area, said Michael Mullany, its vice president of marketing. A recent survey by Evans Data showed the number of Ruby developers increasing 40 percent from a year earlier, he said."
- imabonehead
This is new to me: "Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology (Jones and Bartlett Series in Biomedical Informatics)" - http://www.amazon.com/Program....
Need to check out The Well-Grounded Rubyist. Wondering if I should get PR 1.9 (I have the pickaxe book in print, but never read print books)
- Deepak Singh
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