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Bioinformatics Programming Using Python by Mitchell L Model Review by Jason Chin — by Bill Deegan — posted on Feb 21, 2010 03:00 PM — —

• oreilly

Comparing to Perl, Python has a quite lagged adoption as the scripting language of choice in the field of bioinformatics, although it is getting some moment recently. If you read job descriptions for bioinformatics engineer or scientist positions a few year back, you barely saw Python mentioned, even as “nice to have optional skill”. One of the reasons is probably lacking of good introductory level bioinformatics books in Python so there are, in general, less people thinking Python as a good choice for bioinformatics. The book “Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics” from O Reilly was published in 2001. Almost one decade later, we finally get the book “Bioinformatics Programming Using Python” from Mitchell Model to fill the gap.

Pragmatic Version Control Using Git by Travis Swicegood Review By William Deegan — by Bill Deegan — posted on Jan 10, 2010 01:00 AM —

Having worked in configuration management for the last 15 years or so, I've been exposed to most of the mainstream version control systems. Recently I've been using BuildBot and found an fixed some bugs. They use the git revision control system (hosted on github), so it was time to learn something new.

Python Essential Reference 4th Edition by David Beazley Review by Raj Jammalamadaka — by Bill Deegan — posted on Jan 03, 2010 01:00 PM —

This book is one of the best books I came across about Python. What I really like about the book is that whenever the author has to present some code: he immediately shows the difference between Python 2.x and Python 3.x which I think is very useful for somebody who wants to see the difference between those two versions of Python. The author also makes sure to present some code whenever he introduces a concept. I found this to be a more practical approach as it helps in driving the concept home for the reader.

Python Fundamentals by Wesley J Chun (LiveLessons) review by Ross Parlette — by Bill Deegan — posted on Nov 29, 2009 08:04 PM —

This is a DVD video with an accompanying workbook and covers most of Python. While not specific to Python 2.x or 3.x, it frequently highlights differences in syntax between the two. The audio is in the informal style Wesley uses for his class presentations. There are video clips of him introducing each chapter. These are "talking head" format with some computer screens in the background. Each lesson starts with a Goals section and concludes with a Summary, reviewing what was accomplished. The bulk of the lesson is in what might look like a computer slide (Power Point) presentation, with screen shot animations as well.

Erlang Programming: A Concurrent Approach to Software Development By Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson Review by Tony Cappellini — by Bill Deegan — posted on Oct 19, 2009 12:00 AM — —

• oreilly

My first involvement with Erlang was while I had this book as a guide. I had no significant experience with a functional programming concepts or “real concurrency”. I had been disillusioned about concurrency by using Python (aka Python threads).

Regular Expressions Cookbook Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages By Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan Review by Tony Cappellini — by Bill Deegan — posted on Jun 15, 2009 12:00 AM — —

• oreilly

I was glad to hear another book on Regular Expressions was in the making, I couldn’t wait for a review copy. I have been a user of Jan Goyvaerts’ regex software tools for just over a year now even though I had often-encountered the websites authored by him, while googling for Regular Expression resources. In one of his blog entries, I came across a notice of this forthcoming book, and emailed O’Reilly that I would like to be a reviewer.

Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language by Mark Summerfield — by Bill Deegan — posted on Apr 30, 2009 03:30 PM — —

• pearson

Review by Robert Field This book has a full discussion of the Python 3 language, targeted at experienced programmers, but not requiring any previous Python knowledge. Overall, the writing is clear, the graphics and typesetting well executed, and the chapter exercises definitely reinforce the exposition.

Statistics in a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference By Sarah Boslaugh, Dr. Paul A. Watters Review by Matt Cooper & Saera Khan — by Bill Deegan — posted on Apr 04, 2009 01:10 AM — —

• oreilly

Summary First, let us provide a little context for this review. Two of us contributed to the review; one of us is a psychology professor and the other in software research. We both make regular use of statistics and have some statistical background in our training, albeit with fairly different end applications.

The iPhone Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK by Erica Sadun Review by William Deegan — by Bill Deegan — posted on Mar 15, 2009 09:00 PM —

Even before I finally got an iphone 3G, I was very curious about programming it and when the iphone App store took off, well that just sweetened the pot...

Learning the Vi and VIM Editors 7th Edition by Anrnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah & Linda Lamb Review by Harry Tormey — by Bill Deegan — posted on Mar 15, 2009 12:00 AM — —

• oreilly

This book is all about how to use the text editor Vi and the improved version of it Vim and to a lesser extent other editors derived from Vi.