[BioRuby] biogems.info

[Ben Woodcroft]

Hi all,

Thanks for keeping biogems.info up to date - I find it quite useful.
ben


On 30 December 2013 20:46, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:

> Hi Rubyistas!
>
> Thanks to Adam Stankiewicz the biogems.info site has been upgraded to
> use Middleman for static site generation. Middleman has some nice
> features. Thanks Adam!
>
> And Adam has promised to do something about the look&feel of the site.
>
> This means we can start fixing and upgrading the site again. There are
> a few outstanding issues. Most notable is that rubygems.info stopped
> publishing 90day download stats (API discontinued?) which causes the
> arrow confusion on the left. I'll fix that in the coming days.
>
> Other issues are listed on github. Feel free to help.
>
>   https://github.com/pjotrp/biogems.info/issues?state=open
>
> the source code is there too.
>
> As an update on programming languages, I don't know how you are
> feeling about Ruby and Bioinformatics these days, but I am still using
> Ruby for most of my work. Over the last years I also did projects in
> Python, Coffeescript, C, Erlang, Scala and D. None of which I
> particularly avoid - but I do avoid R, Perl, Java and C++!  Ruby is
> still what I am most productive in, even if hardly using OOP and
> metaprogramming (or maybe because!). Oh, I also avoid Rails, that is
> why we have Middleman.
>
> D is my choice when it comes to (big data) performance. D is on the
> increase. But Ruby is still my pony. Ruby is nice. I love my pony :)
>
> Happy NY to you all, and keep writing new biogems, we we may collect
> them into a publication in 2015.
>
> Pj.
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