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Google Docs recently added support for uploading arbitrary files (up to 250MB large). Can this be used to host Java applets?

Here are my take-away notes from the first day of the Google Testing and Automation Conference.

Over the last few days several books from Manning Publications appear to have been added to Safari Books.

Spent this weekend at the Spring 2008 Pacific Northwest Software Symposium. Here are my notes (trimmed down to whatever I felt was new & noteworthy to me) and some general comments about the event.

I recently needed to add support for extracting data from Excel files (which are still ubiquitous in labs) to a Java application.

During the last two weeks I ran some tests to answer a few questions that had been accumulating:

1. Should I disable hyper-threading (ht)?
2. How much does doubling the available memory improve performance?
3. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the fastest JVM of them all?

It’s not uncommon for organizations to have strict policies regarding the use of GPLed code, due to the somewhat viral nature of this license.

In the latest effort to make myself obsolete by the end of this year, we are looking for a software developer to help us better make our data available to both humans and machines. The main responsibilities of this position will be the further development of the UniProt web site and the UniProt RDF distribution.

My colleagues regularly ask me if I couldn’t provide them with some graphic view of my code, looking at source code is so tedious etc. I’ve looked at various UML tools in the past, but never managed to get any truly useful visualization out of any of them. But maybe the problem with UML is that it’s so limited to two dimensions? Enter Relief, a tool that visualizes code in three dimensions!

Gave a brief talk about programmatic access to beta.uniprot.org at the EMBRACE workshop in Geneva today.