myGrid developer blog

Daniel Bayer at University of Lübeck has implemented an ARC Grid plugin for Taverna for submitting job to the grid system ARC, in particular for usage with KnowARC. Bayer, together with Steffen Möller and Hajo N. Krabbenhöft also recently got published in Bioinformatics.
The work seems very promising, and in particular because it seems to have […]

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a programme hosted by Google that gives students a chance to work (and paid a scholarship) during the summer 2008 for an open source project.
We’re happy to announce that OMII-UK (the mother organisation of myGrid) has been accepted as one of GSoC’s mentoring organisations. Some of the ideas for […]

We’re hopefully doing our code freeze for Taverna 1.7.1 today, 2008-03-28.
There’s a few bug fixes, in addition to quite a bit of work on t2. There will also be a drag-and-drop-able, interactive workflow editor, basically you can edit the workflow by connecting lines between the processors. Those of you who remember Taverna 1.4 might notice […]

Writing a User Interface is quite often the hardest part of any development job. Everyone likes different look and feel and they seem to take forever to develop. I tend to hand code using Swing (Java’s default GUI) because I have not found an interactive GUI designer which I am comfortable with. […]

A recent project involved the use of semantic metadata, stored using RDF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework) and used mainly on a Globus based grid (http://www.globus.org). Inside the RDF was locational information which consisted of a place name, person, date and event. Using the Google maps API I took the RDF, extracted the locational info using a […]

I started this blog mainly as a dumping ground for ideas and things I have learned so that I didn’t forget. Like a virtual notebook. However I thought it would be quite cool to access it from anywhere but I just couldn’t get onto my site from anywhere on the web. Just […]