Tag Archives: Computing

Book Review: Learning Python, 3rd Edition (1)

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Conrad Halling

Utterly bewitched by this dramatic and thrilling panel from an xkcd.com comic strip, I have decided that it is time I learned the Python programming language. I come to Python as a bioinformatics scientist who is experienced in C, C++, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Conrad Halling

Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition, was written by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane and published by O’Reilly in May, 2004. I purchased this book in 2005 when I was doing some consulting for a microarray … Continue reading →

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On Becoming a WordPress Master

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Conrad Halling

I hope I won’t write too many posts about the mechanics of blogging, but I have spent the entire day studying Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, by Eric A. Meyer, in an effort to solve some minor … Continue reading →

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