[Biojava-dev] accepted GSoC projects

[Andreas Prlic]

> Any ideas for the MSA project as well as more sources of programming wisdom
> are quite welcome.  For example, Andreas suggested a series about Java
> parallelism and lazy execution (
> http://apocalisp.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/parallel-strategies-and-the-callable-monad/).
>


credits for the links go to Scooter, who recommended those ;-)  My general
recommendation is to read Joshua Bloch's "Effective Java".
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/ It is a collection of  rules that
should help in avoiding some frequently made mistakes...

Andreas






>  I also noted a useful tip for iterative development (
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/Workflow).
>
> Thanks again,
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 4/27/2010 12:33 AM, Andreas Prlic wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Google has released the results for GSoC: Congratulations to Mark
>> Chapman and Jianjiong Gao for having been accepted to work on the MSA
>> and PTM projects for BioJava! Let's start the "community bonding"
>> process ( http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/MindtheGap )  and we
>> all are looking forward to work with you on this during the summer. The
>> Mentors and co-mentors will be Peter Rose for the PTM and Scooter Willis
>> and Kyle Ellrott for the MSA project (and me).
>>
>> I want to thank all of of you who submitted proposals or showed interest
>> in other ways for the Google Summer of Code. We hope you are not too
>> disappointed if your application did not get accepted this time. We had
>> a  large number (52) applications and the the overall quality of the
>> submissions was very high. We would like to stay in touch with you and
>> we hope that you are interested in BioJava also beyond the scope of
>> GSoC. There are a number of different ways how to contribute:  We are
>> always looking for people who provide code and patches to further
>> improve our library, help out with the documentation on the Wiki page,
>> or answer questions on the mailing lists.
>>
>> Let's all give Mark and Jianjiong  a warm welcome to the BioJava
>> community.  For those of you who are interested in following the
>> progress of the projects, as usually, the development related
>> discussions are going to be on the biojava-dev list.
>>
>> Happy coding!
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>


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