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another late night and building with genes...

I was so excited about finally finishing the last of my testing I decided to stay up to go over the todo list I showed before , and make sure that every task was addressed in code. As I mentioned in a previous post , often the actual implementation will deviate from the task items on the todo list which are written on the fly as I am thinking about what needs to be done to address a given problem. I discovered a few items from the list that were obsoleted since I found more efficient ways of doing them in the actual code, always a good thing to find that you don't have as much work to do as you first thought. After I finished checking all the items off, I proceeded to perform one of the coolest parts of software design to me, if only because it is some what mysterious (it being a type of programming I have yet to do) and that is , build software. I've been using a application distribution builder I found after a few well placed google queries called Advanced Installer , this ...

Programming biology

The following is an excerpt from an email I sent to some friends on 24 March of last year. It concerns an advance in biology (one of many ) that occurred last year. http://www.iaucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1571 The following text was my comment regarding the link: As if they simply took the "class" for the extra color receptor and used it as the "base class" for receptor development in the modified mice eyes. Just as we take a superclass and by inheritance endow subclasses to use it's attributes in java or enable multiple inheritance in C++. I saw these similarities first when I was in high school between electronic systems design and biology and then again saw it between OO programming and biology and electronics systems design. It is possible the original OO language designers may have had the biological mechanisms in mind when they came up with their ideas as much of this was still being teased out during the late 70's and 80's when OO hit it...