November 2011
3 posts
Pubget's Automated Builds
As a small team, we don’t have the luxury of dedicated release engineers and thus need to automate our build as much as possible. To do this we use git branches, CruiseControl.rb and some nifty shell scripts to keep new code flowing. Coupled with the automation, we also have a weekly build master rotation where one member of the dev team shields the rest from tracking down build failures....
Nov 29th
Pubget Sponsors UCSF PhD Movie Series
We here at Pubget know how much serious work is involved in obtaining your PhD but as we have found out humor is just as big of a process! In any case, we’re pumped to be sponsoring UCSF’s PhD film series this Thursday. With all the time our research friends are saving by searching on Pubget, they can afford to take a well-deserved break from some intense research. Free pizza and some...
Nov 17th
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Ever wonder what makes it into Pubget?
Well you can read our official stance below, but here’s the short of it.  As the search engine for life science PDFs, we want to index scientific works from journals that have a strong impact on the scientific community. The journals indexed publish papers which represent the advancements in science, and are the foundation of future discoveries. That’s why you’ll find both the...
Nov 9th