…Function of Biological Macromolecules, Bioinformatics and Modeling ( SFMBBM). It ended up being a day with great talks, by some bright PhD students and postdocs. There were 2 keynotes (one by Prof Bert Poolman from Groningen ( NL) and one by myself), and a panel discussion on what the future holds for people nearing the end of their PhDs.
My talk was titled " Humanizing Bioinformatics" and received quite well (at least some people still laughed at my jokes (if you …
Data Modeling in Performant Systems // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
Don't should on yourself // opensoul.org
Should is a dangerous word. It conveys a sense of obligation. Failure to follow through with things you should do leads to guilt. Guilt is demotivating.
Newlee - HTTP Basic Authentication and Devise
Say you're using Heroku to host a staging version of your app that uses Devise for authentication. You want to keep unwanted visitors …
2.8 Modeling flexibility Should be able to model various types of data in a simple way:
Key-Value pairs
Hierarchical data
Graphs
2.9 Query Flexibility
Multi-Gets (retrieve a bunch of values, for the set of keys provided, in one call)
Range queries (retrieve data based on the specified range of the key)
3. Database Managers A Database Manager is a software library that is loaded in-process to provide a high performance database. Its focus is typically restricted …