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Toadmila's hand reached instinctively for the cup of tea, but she stopped halfway.
"If you've got a saint helping you, then why come to me?" she asked.
"Oh, she won't help me with John," Jane answered smiling, as if that were obvious. "She's your patron saint."
"There's a patron saint for witches?" Toadmila asked, raising one eyebrow. She was certain that witches were outside the influence of the Church.
"Oh, no, of course not. But you're the witch of Grimwood forest, and she's the patron saint of Grimwood forest."
Toadmila did not seem convinced.
"Though I suppose she could be the patron saint of witches," Jane added thoughtfully, "because she was a witch too, or at least people thought she was."
Toadmila's hand clasped around the cup of tea with sudden determination.
"You don't know the story, do you?" Jane asked.
"I know very little about saints," Toadmila admitted.
"Well, it was a long time ago. Hundreds of years ago. There was an old woman who lived in a hut in Grimwood forest. Her name was Rosalba, and she lived alone, and the people thought she was a witch, because she looked like one, and then she lived in the forest, and that's what witches do. And one year, there was a terrible drought, and the crops died. So the villagers thought that they'd been cursed, and they went to the which's hut and caught her and brought her to the village and dragged her by her hair to the crossroads that's at the center of the village, and asked her to renounce Satan and to lift the curse and to restore their crops. But she kept saying that she couldn't do it and that she wasn't a witch.
"Of course she wasn't a witch," Toadmila cut in, taking the cup of tea to her lips. "She wouldn't have been caught by a bunch of villagers if she;d been a witch."
"Well, you can't know that," Jane said. "But she really wasn't a witch, because they burned her at the stake and she died and turned to ashes and the curse wasn't lifted at all, and the crops were still dying. And then the villagers went to her hut to find the source of the curse, and when they entered the hut, they found that it was filled with crucifixes and portraits of saints, and they realized that she'd lived her whole life as a God-fearing woman, and they prayed for forgiveness. And when they prayed, dark clouds covered the sky and lightning struck three times, and then it began to rain."
Jane stopped and looked at Toadmila to see what effect the story was having on her. She seemed to expect some sort of wonder or even bewilderment, but Toadmila was placidly sipping her tea and could not be bothered to reward the storyteller with even the vaguest display of interest in the story.
"It rained for three weeks," Jane went on, somewhat disheartened, "and the crops drowned entirely, but the drought ended, and so the priest said that this was the mark of Rosalba's forgiveness, and her first miracle."
Jane stopped again and looked at Toadmila expectantly.
"I see," Toadmila said, hoping that the girl wouldn't ask her what it was that she saw.
"That's why not a lot of people know about her," Jane went on, "because you need three miracles to be a real saint, and she only has one. But there are plenty of saints who only achieved their miracles after death, so we believe in her. Here in Petticrop, we call her Saint Rosalba already, and we pray to her for protection when we come into the forest.
"The villagers killed her, and you expect her to protect you?" Toadmila asked, raising one eyebrow.
"Of course. That's what saints do."

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News: Mapping Mayhem: Defense Contract Raises Eyebrows
PIIM's comprehensive mapping program will be a great resource, Kerrey says
[image of SDS & PIIM woman]
Sam Lewis
Sam Lewis
Nadia Chaudhury
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(from top to bottom) On February 9, SDS members demanded answers from a staffer for the Parsons Institue for Information Mapping; A PIIM map; Graffiti scribbled on a project that formed the basis for PIIM; The PIIM office on the 2nd floor of 55 W. 13th St; Alex Cline confronting a staffer.
By Kevin Dugan
In an obscure office at 55 W. 13th St., a group of engineers and graduate students sit shoulder to shoulder at computers, poring over thousands of news articles, digitally-rendered maps and satellite images.
Nearby, a huge, arcing window facing 13th Street fills a more spacious room with sunlight. There, a programmer sits at a Macintosh, studying Times Square from the sky. She flies down to street level and lands just outside a featureless, gray rendering of the Empire State Building.
Welcome to the headquarters for the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM), a New
School program that collects and organizes endless amounts of raw data—including voting statistics, racial demographics and phone numbers—into media and visual mapping projects.
Unbeknownst to most students, the U.S. Department of Defense signed a $6 million contract with The New School in 2002 for one of the programs, the Geospace and Media Tool (GMT). Faculty and students recently discovered the contract, sparking a wave of controversy across campus.
New School President Bob Kerrey recently told Inprint that GMT, which may be on the market
as early as ten months, will not have a military application. It is designed to streamline communications systems for Congress and civilian agencies, and provide research tools for the university's faculty and staff.
Nevertheless, PIIM's executive director, William Bevington, said GMT can still be modified to access confidential information. Kerrey said faculty and students should not be concerned about
The New School's relationship with the Department of Defense. "If you oppose the U.S. having
an Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps under any circumstances, and oppose the Department of Defense's existence, period, then you have a consistent argument that we should not be doing business" with the department, he said. "If, however, your only objection is having Bush as commander-in-chief, that's a wholly different matter."
Kerrey helped create the institute in 2002 after seeing a Parsons senior-work presentation where students created detailed maps and graphs on specific topics. One student mapped the Battle of Gettysburg while another documented the desertification process of the Gobi Desert. This concept, he said, should be applied to a digital platform.
Kerrey chose Bevington, then a Parsons professor, to head the institute. Bevington recruited a
team of engineers and graduate students to create tools like publicopiniontool. org and Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC), a system that keeps track of military bases inside the country.
That year, Kerrey pitched one of the projects, GMT, to the Defense Department. GMT is designed to make it easier for Congressmen to gather large amounts of information
about unfamiliar topics. Kerrey, a former senator, said that most public officials have trouble
keeping track of important issues.
GMT collects and organizes "open source," or unclassified, data much like a Google search,
but with far more comprehensive capabilities. According to Bevington, the program can process
almost two million news articles, from sources that include national news wires and community newspapers worldwide.
"You get 12,000 sources of news processing 80,000 stories a day," Bevington said. For a student, "it would be an amazing research tool."
Bevington demonstrated the program at PIIM headquarters. He ran a search for "mosque,"
and over one million news hits surfaced. Every article was linked to its area on an interactive map, giving him the opportunity to explore further.
As with most programs that compile data, such exhaustive access to information can have both
its advantages and disadvantages.
For instance, because of the PATRIOT Act, medical records are partially open to the public for hospitals and insurance companies.
With this access, in the event of a disaster, "we can treat more people, more quickly," Bevington
said. "However, if it's open, insurance companies can say, 'I'm not gonna insure you.'"
Open source information could be used to improve intelligence gathering.
For example, the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding
Weapons of Mass Destruction, a nonpartisan group, concluded in a 2005 letter to President George W. Bush that the intelligence community incorrectly assessed Iraq's nuclear capabilities because it did not rely on open source information.
In response to concerns that GMT could be used for military purposes, Bevington said that that
the military already has access to advanced data analysis technology.
Nevertheless, Kerrey cannot guarantee that once GMT is available to the public, it will continue to gather only open source data.
"I think we should have a conversation about the need for secrets and the need for security," Kerrey said.
When GMT goes public, Bevington said users will be able to modify its applications. "Could
you put classified information into the tool? Currently, no," Bevington said. "Could you redesign
the tools to do that? Yeah."
Some students and faculty believe this relationship runs contrary to the university's principles,
including the anti-war stance of founders Charles Beard, James Harvey Robinson, Thorsten
Veblen and John Dewey, who left Columbia to start The New School in 1919.
Students discovered GMT on January 22, when graduate student Armon Rezai emailed New
School for Social Research economics professor Catherine Ruetschlin with a link to fedspending.org, a Web site that monitors government contracts and grants. The site reported
that the DoD had contracted The New School for nearly $10 million since 2002, and gave university $6 million in 2003.
"At first look I thought it could be from Kerrey's service on the 9/11 Commission," Ruetschlin
said. "Although there wouldn't be any reason that money should come to our school."
"It degrades the decisions of all the students who come to The New School in recognition of its
heritage," Reutschlin added.
On February 9, with endorsement from the University Student Senate and the Lang Student Union, five SDS members marched into the PIIM office, armed with a "warrant" demanding that the administration end their relationship with the military until it is approved by students and faculty.
Bevington was not in the office at the time, and a staff member on hand could not divulge any information.
Kerrey said that the controversey points to a larger issue—that some students have not been receptive enough to viewpoints of conservatives and the military.
"People talk about academic freedom up the wazoo," he said. "When it comes down to using
that academic freedom to have a real discussion and debate, where is it?"


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PORTSMOUTH – U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter received a close-up look at a high-tech facility on Post Road that manufactures 100 miles of microscope slides each day.
PORTSMOUTH – U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter received a close-up look at a high-tech facility on Post Road that manufactures 100 miles of microscope slides each day.
The congresswoman toured Thermo Fisher Scientific, which employees 300 people, most of them full-time.
Due to sequestration, scientific research funded by the National Institutes of Health will be reduced by $1.6 billion, which can affect grants to universities like the University of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. These institutions use products made by Thermo Fisher from microscope slides to a high-end mass spectrometer.
The Portsmouth facility is dedicated to making the glass slides that Michael Karsonovich, vice president and general manager, said are high-quality and shipped internationally. The slides are used in pathology, biomedical research and other applications.
"There is a lot of competition out there," Karsonovich said. "We have a very good value proposition for our slides. They work right the first time, every time, and you don't see that with the competition."
He added, as budgets get tighter, some customers will opt for a lower-cost slide. "But we've had significant numbers of customers come back to us this year after trying a lower-value product," he said.
In March, Shea-Porter co-sponsored the Stop the Sequester Job Loss Now Act, legislation that would replace sequestration with a balanced approach to reducing our deficit and growing our economy.
"This is having serious consequences around the country and I am particularly concerned about the impact in the medical field and in research that is being done right now that relies on that funding," Shea-Porter said. "I keep saying this is a rolling wave and what we're going to see as it goes on is more negative impact and people becoming more aware."
Shea-Porter said she is very concerned about "so much of the great research being done at NIH."
Rick Jenkinson, Thermo Fisher's director of government affairs, said while the sequestration doesn't affect Thermo Fisher directly, it does affect its customers.
"We knew about the sequestration coming and we planned our budgets accordingly," he said. "But it does affect our customers like MIT and UNH that may be receiving NIH grants to do research, because they, in turn, purchase from us."
Shea-Porter said Congress requested funding to reflect the increased need.
"We are watching this," she said. "It is the responsibility of Congress that where we cut is appropriate."


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Leipa plans containerboard production expansion at its Schwedt site
28 February 2015
Based on a successful preliminary assessment, the LEIPA Group predicts investment in a significant expansion of containerboard production capacities. The company's headquarters in Schwedt are being examined as the location for the expansion.
A possible start of operations is planned for as early as the 2016 financial year.
"Investing in a further containerboard machine is one of the possible options for further expanding the market position we already have in the field of packaging paper. LEIPA has been extremely successful with the global marketing strategy for its products, meaning we now have the necessary foundations to invest in additional production capacities," says Peter Probst, managing director LEIPA Holding.
The LEIPA Group is ready to make an amount in the three-digit million range available for its corporate development. The target capacity of the planned machine is approximately 290,000 tonnes per year. The envisaged production programme covers corrugating medium and testliner – white and/or brown – in the substance range of 80 to 140 g/m2. Such a machine would complement existing production opportunities in Schwedt, where 120 to 200 g/m2 of coated and uncoated white top testliners are currently produced.
The LEIPA Group currently produces approximately 900,000 tonnes of graphic paper and packaging paper per year at its Schwedt and Schrobenhausen locations. In MAD and LEIPA Logistik, the Group has a recycling specialist and a logistics service provider respectively.
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
The Appliance Year
Do we trust this woman that the modern four year anniversary gift is appliances? I'm going to go with it, because we bought appliances out the wazoo this year, and I can honestly say that our new stove, dishwasher, and new-to-us fridge and microwave, have improved our marriage.
We are in the Berkshires this week, and have plans to take Lizzy Bean over to the Mount to show her where her parents got married. I'm sure she'll be super into it :)
I looked through my wedding pictures to find the one above for this post, and counted all the babies our guests have had since then - ten, not counting Lizzy, with another two on the way. Love just grows and grows.
Peter, I'm so happy that I get to walk (and cook!) beside you. Happy anniversary, my dear.
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Archive | Indian Video Songs RSS for this section
Aaieena dekh ke bolay yeh sanwerney waley
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Aaieena dekh ke bolay yeh sanwerney waley
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Chithi na koi sandes
oooooooooooo v sad song i love it
Jagjit Singh – Badi Nazuk Hai Yeh Manzil
great job buddy i love this song thanx for uploading it!
sach keh raha hoon main
sharabi hoon tou tou kia howa such tou bolta hoon na yeh chee lajawab hey bhai wah zabardast
the little girl very cute
god bless u dear
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Jagjit Singh – Tamanna Phir Machal Jaye
I dont know why magar ya video dekhne k baad apni mahromiya kuch zyada hi satati hein
nahi milte ho mujhse tum to sab hamdard hai mere
jamana mujh se jal jaye agar tum milne aa jaao….
beautiful gazal
jamana mujh se jal jaye agar tum milne aa jaao….
beautiful gazal
wonderful one
Jagjit Singh – Kahien Door Jab Din Dhal Jae
Both Jagjit's and Mukesh's version of the song are timeless. Each was sung under a different mood, and hence are both incomparable to each other. One is like the morning, the other, evening.
Tum Hamaare Nahin To Kaya Gham Hai – Jagjit Singh
simply heart touching…
Great voice of Jagjit Singh + great lyrics by late Kunwar Mohinder Singh Bedi.
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Discussion in 'Content Marketing' started by jobchix, May 9, 2011.
any ideas of how one can be able to get contact work on daily basis. please help
jobchix a good start would be to advertise your services right here on the Member Ads & Marketplace section of Business Advice Forum. You should also consider promoting yourself at the various webmaster forums and freelance sites listed in our Useful Online Business Resources.
You can actually hang around those forum marketplace or freelancer site to get the job
Read a lot of articles & blogs. That will give you varied ideas. Then start writing. In the initial phase, get your articles reviewed by a veteran article writer or post for free and then ask readers to give their comments on the same. Eventually, your article writing skills would improve considerably.


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The next big change for federal contractors may be a requirement that they provide paid sick leave to employees. According to the New York Times, President Obama has drafted an executive order that would require federal contractors and subcontractors to provide a minimum of 56 hours of paid sick leave (approximately seven days) per year to employees. The leave could be used for the employee's own illness, to care for a spouse, child or family member who is ill or for absences from work to seek medical attention, attend counseling, obtain relocation assistance or attend legal proceedings related to sexual violence or stalking.
The order has not been published; however, the Department of Labor was to approve the order and send it to the White House by Wednesday afternoon, according to the New York Times article. See Obama Drafts Order on Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors, Aug. 5, 2015. President Obama has long been a proponent of paid leave and, in his January State of the Union address, urged Congress to send him a bill that would give all employees seven days of paid sick leave. Such legislation has been proposed but has not withstood opposition from the Republican-controlled Congress. Although federal law does not require employers to provide paid sick leave, some state and local governments have enacted such requirements.
If the President signs this executive order, it will be the latest in a number of orders imposing additional burdens on federal contractors. In February of 2014, the President signed an executive order increasing the minimum wage for employees of certain federal contractors to $10.10 per hour. He subsequently signed orders prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating based on gender identity and sexual orientation, requiring them to self-report labor violations, prohibiting policies which require employees to not disclose their compensation to each other, and prohibiting mandatory arbitration of certain discrimination and harassment claims.


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Patterns of Blue
I had previously mentioned that for Christmas I received a "binary" LED clock. It's quite stylish and matches the colors in my office very well. Though it can be intimidating at first, It's pretty easy to quickly tell the time. Seconds aren't really that important, so you only have to figure out the hour/minutes. The ThinkGeek.com has a guide on how to read the time, so I wont bother explaining it here.


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Hook Cemetery ( Hardin )
Texas : Flag of State
Hook Cemetery is a place of kind Cemetery belonging to the County of ( Hardin ).
The closest populated place is that of Nona that is5.73 miles far from Hook Cemetery.
Hook Cemetery is also 2.64 miles far from the closest airport or heliport, the Hawthorne Field .
The weather forecasting are available for the town of Lumberton , that is 7.65 miles far from Hook Cemetery .
The Zip Code of Hook Cemetery is 77657.
Besides Hook Cemetery in the County of ( Hardin ) there are the following places of kind Cemetery . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
Brackin Cemetery - Daniels Cemetery - Felps Cemetery - Gore Cemetery - Grayburg Cemetery - Griffin Cemetery - Guedry Cemetery - Holland Cemetery - Hooks Cravey Cemetery - Knupple Cemetery - Loeb Cemetery - McNeely Cemetery - Middle Town Cemetery - Olive Cemetery - Peaceful Rest Cemetery - Providence Cemetery - Rest Haven Cemetery - Rosedale Cemetery - Sutton Cemetery - Village Mills Cemetery - Walton Cemetery .
Where to stay: Hotels and other Accommodation Hook Cemetery
Please find in what follows the full listing of the Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts and other accommodation available in Hook Cemetery.
A lot of pictures and fully detailed descriptions are available for the Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts and other accommodation, along with the ratings assigned by the guest of the same Hotels. The ratings are divided by age, sex and much more.
Texas : Emblem of State
- Capital : Austin
- Inhabitants : Texan (Texasan, Texassian)
- State's Motto : Friendship
- English translation : Friendship
Map and road map of Hook Cemetery
View the interactive maps of Hook Cemetery and get road maps, satellite maps and much more. The maps cover a wide area centered on Hook Cemetery .
On each map are available: a selector scale, on the bottom right of the map,a menu for choosing different views of the same map, placed in the upper left corner of the map, a free text search field for locating any business activity within the map itself, placed at the top center of the map.
The videos about Hook Cemetery
It is proposed a first video: clicking on the PLAY button the video will start. Inside the video window there are several commands and a Playlist button. Press the Playlist button to access the complete listing of available videos, along with their titles. It will be sufficient to scroll through the list using the cursor to select any of the videos. You can use the << and >> keys to scroll through the videos. Each video can be displayed in full screen.


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Continuing with the architecture here we have the Moçarabe church of Lourosa possibly a mosque before:
Another Morabit of Ferreira do alentejo nowadays a small chapel.
The New mosque of Odivelas (Wadi velas'?)
Aisha Sidique.
The CTT company the Portuguese Post Company decided to honour the glourious Al'Gharb Al Andaluz with a collection of commemorative stamps named "Arabic Lisbon-Lisboa Arabe":
here´s one of them:
And here´s the whole collection of 6:
these next are details of amulets and coins from the Islamic period kept in Museum and private collections...
this one is from the Museum in Serpa:
These are coins in a private collection'they are from the almohad period
More coins, these ones coined in Xelb from the almohad period.
An interesting painting based on a poem by Al'Mutamid the muslim Poet and King of Baja (Beja) who was born in Xelb (Silves) and where he spent most of his Childhood.
the translation would be something like:
"Give my salute oh Abu Bakr to those dear places of Silves and tell me if they miss me as much as I miss them..."
An interesting inscription in Évora (Al'Yabura)


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Although this homecooked dish is for our family meal at home, it is nice to decorate it once in a while. The flowers are made from pineapples and the stem from parsley. For some crunchiness, I added in an apple. In order to give this vegetarian salad an extra kick, I used a bell pepper that have been baked in an oven. You can use a blow torch to do this as well. The burned skin of bell pepper is very easy to be removed.
Main Ingredients
Bell Pepper, 1 pc, baked or barbecued
Apple, 1 pc, cut into cubes
Pineapple, cut vertically for the flower and cubes for the salad part
Parsley, for garnishing
Salad Dressing
Tomato Sauce, 5 table spoons
Cream or cheese, 1/2 cup
Pepper, to taste
Salt, to taste
Extra virgin olive oil
Cut all the ingredients for the salad and arrange in a plate as shown. Mix all the salad dressing ingredients well. Pour the dressing onto the salad and serve.


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I was perusing the Twitter when this passed my peepers from the Grauniad, which got me wondering about a new blog post, and related to the upcoming Software Carpentry course I'm helping to give at TGAC next month.
The inimitable Prof. Brian Cox states:
"I think if you're not comfortable with the unknown, then it's difficult to be a scientist … I don't need answers to everything. I want to have answers to find."
This is similar, but suitably different for the purposes of argument, to what a programmer wants:
"I think if you're not comfortable with the unknown, then it's difficult to be a programmer … How do I find the problem, and how does that affect my diagnosis to start searching for the solution?"
How do you teach people code diagnosis skills? Surely ability to triage is based on personality, experience and simple dogged determination, and is reserved for experts with years of practice? Well, yes, and thankfully a resounding no.
I'm a daily regular in the ##java freenode IRC channel, aimed at helping people with all manner of Java development questions. It's a great, if a little aggressive, resource and I'd recommend developers in the Java space to at least idle in there to pick up best practice. There are other channels devoted to the other programming languages too. Whatever the language, one of the common entry-level to beginner (the two are different) type attitudes is that there is always a clear resource to help you get to your answer, and that someone must be able to provide an answer quickly. This simply isn't the case. Often in programming, it's a real labour-intensive task to search, filter and read through documentation and tutorials to give you the best hope of attempting a solution. That said, learning how to find the problem and being able to describe that problem are imperative.
So, given that science is basically an exercise in delving into the unknown, it would seem sensible to conclude scientists should make great programmers. So here are some steps that I've found invaluable along the way that hopefully should be applicable to those, particularly in the biological domain, that want to get started or improve their programming and get into doing a bit of bioinformatics development themselves.
How do you ask the right question?
Know what you're trying to achieve
- You need to have a clear idea of what your end goal is, down to specific small packages of work. This is not the same as knowing what the problem is.
- A global goal, e.g. "Parse in my VCF file, search for variants in my region of interest, pull out those results, show a report", can comprise a relatively daunting body of work for a beginner. However, this goal can be split into a number of far more manageable chunks, each with more granular goals.
- When you know what you're trying to do, finding the problem becomes easier. A pencil and paper or a whiteboard is a great way to slow the thought process down and concentrate on thinking about the goals, rather than how to complete them, which can immediately throw up design problems before you've already coded up a load of stuff.
- Knowing where your code deviates from your goals is great for focusing the mind, keeping small chunks of information in your head, and hence great for triage.
Granularity leads to an excellent basis for test-driven development
- If you know you are working towards a small goal with a clear outcome, i.e. a unit, write a test for it, i.e. a unit test.
- Each time you add more code to your program, the test is carried out, making sure your downstream code that uses it is sane.
- By knowing that tests previously worked and now they have stopped working due to underlying code changes, i.e. "regression", is great for triage.
Learn how to use Google and how to skim read
- You'd be amazed how many developer questions are prefixed with "I tried to Google, but I couldn't find anything".
- It's surprisingly easy to filter out cruft by doing a cursory broad search, then using the simple operators that Google gives you to filter, for example the exact query quotes, and negation.
- By reading a lot of documentation, you learn how to skim read to find the nuggets of relevance quickly. Scientists are usually great at this because they read a lot of scientific papers, and as such should make great documentation readers and question-askers in the bioinformatics space.
- Poor search and documentation processing skills are unnecessarily sloppy, are unwarranted and are bad for triage.
Know the tools and techniques to help you pinpoint where errors are happening
- Finding the bits of code that aren't doing as you expect (which aren't that many because you're writing tests now, right?) is probably the single biggest time sink.
- Many practices and tools are available in all languages to help you find where the issues are:
- Sensible logging – even wrapping code segments with printing to stdout can be sufficient to breakpoint larger bits of code.
- Debuggers – may seem daunting, but they are almost second-to-none to find potentially stubborn bugs like race conditions.
- Small code fragments – 10 100-line code snippets are far easier to debug than a single 1000-line one.
- Read the APIs – the specifications and syntax of a language or library are crucial to understand what things do, and what they don't. This is amazingly frequently overlooked by entry-level programmers.
Don't paraphrase
- If you have a specific problem related to a specific goal, don't gloss over elements of your issue or your attempts at solutions.
- Writing a simple self-contained test case demonstrating the problem is good practice, as it minimises ambiguity or misunderstanding.
- Being able to state categorically what you've attempted and any errors you see is great for triage.
What next?
So there's a clincher. Training courses and tutorials are great ways to learn syntax, to speak to experienced developers and to try out new things. However, unless you have a vested interest/job in bioinformatics, maintaining relevance to your work following the course or tutorial is extremely hard. This is where experience and personality come in.
Whenever you see a problem in your day-to-day work, take the time out to see if you could work out how to help yourself by programming your way out of it. This is not time wasted. You're training your brain to think in a programming context, which will make you quicker at diagnosing issues in the future.
Similarly, learning best practice is not time wasted. "I don't have time" is synonymous with "I am not motivated to do things properly". A sensible scientist wouldn't leave their paper acceptance chances in the hands of a knowingly hasty and flawed experimental design, and a bioinformatician shouldn't do the same when publishing code. Hacking scripts together is commonplace and ubiquitous, and for good reason – it's procedural glue for your tasks that can be automated to some extent. However, a lot of time spent in triage as a result of this quick and dirty development can be avoided by making things easier on yourself, which includes taking the time to learn version control, learn the proper conventions of the language, name everything concisely, use unit tests, document regularly and as fully as is relevant and possible. I like using travelling downtime to document my code and processes.
Finally, the more people that understand code triage, the more people will be better qualified to undertake peer review of software in bioinformatics, which is an area that is sorely lacking.
Changed the regression sentence for a bit more clarity – thanks for the suggestion Mick!