[Biohaskell] [Brad Chapman] [codefest] Codefest 2011 initial planning

2011-06-09 Thread Ketil Malde
At least Christian and I are going to ISMB/ECCB, and the preceeding BOSC and 'codefest' - i.e. a bioinformatics hackathon. We should start thinking of some tasks to address, and there's a common document for the codefest (see attached main from Brad Chapman). Some things I'd be interested in:

Re: [Biohaskell] [Brad Chapman] [codefest] Codefest 2011 initial planning

2011-06-09 Thread choener
Hi, Your points are actually rather good, and I'd like to work on it. Especially since I am currently changing a lot in my libraries and this could find it's way into a common lib. One problem might be that I tend to change stuff as I need it, as I am my only user ;-) Regarding iteratee/enum

Re: [Biohaskell] [Brad Chapman] [codefest] Codefest 2011 initial planning

2011-06-09 Thread Brad Chapman
Ketil and Christian; I'm glad you will be at Codefest; looking forward to meeting both of you and to a productive time. These all sound like great targets for work during the two days. I'm not much of a Haskell coder -- I do run Xmonad and read 'Learn you a Haskell' -- but do have one small sugges

Re: [Biohaskell] [codefest] cloudbiolinux

2011-06-09 Thread choener
Hi, sure, it should be no problem talking about this. I have, however, no experience with cloud-based computing -- I prefer local clusters, where we have greater control over what is going on. Fortunately, Haskell provides the "Haskell platform" which should get everyone started. I regard bo

Re: [Biohaskell] [codefest] cloudbiolinux

2011-06-09 Thread Ketil Malde
choener writes: > sure, it should be no problem talking about this. I have, however, no > experience with cloud-based computing -- I prefer local clusters, > where we have greater control over what is going on. I currently use local machinery as well, for practical and political reasons. I do th

Re: [Biohaskell] [Brad Chapman] [codefest] Codefest 2011 initial planning

2011-06-09 Thread Antoine van Gelder
On 09 Jun 2011, at 15:17 , Brad Chapman wrote: > A pet project > for me has been trying to make the development environment on > CloudBioLinux (http://cloudbiolinux.org/) workable for a wide variety > of different languages. Wow, that looks fantastically useful Brad! > If you are interested,