Some of you may have heard of usesthis. In this site people are interviewed about the tools they use to get their job done. The format is very straight forward, participants have to answer these questions:
- Who are you, and what do you do?
- What hardware do you use?
- And what software?
- What would be your dream setup?
I find the site useful and engaging. I thought it would be useful to have something similar but more oriented towards scientists and developers. That is why I decided to write my own version.
I thought the biostar site could be used to democratize who goes in the site.
What do you think?
UPDATE1: If the idea is appealing to the community I'd recommend posting in this thread what people you'd like to see interviewed so everyone can vote. When the person reaches a certain number of votes (>10 ?) I will send him/her an email.
Once I get enough interviews (~10) I'll start releasing one every week.
Keep your suggestions and questions coming.
Thanks,
drd
I posted a link to this thread on Twitter, and the author of usesthis informed me that you can just fork his repository: https://github.com/waferbaby/usesthis/
Yes, I explored the option of using his code (https://github.com/drio/usesthis) but there were a few reasons why I decided to write my own. The most important one being that I wanted to have a code base that I can easily modify to add new features and I am more familiar with python than with ruby. Also, I run into a bug that I couldn't track down through the stack of dependencies. And finally I thought it would be an interesting exercise to write the engine myself.
That is the best reason to do anything :)
it is definitely a good idea, please go with it! :-)
You are also one of the top BS users. Would you like to participate?
sure, why not! What should I do?