Recently I was faced with an external program that I wanted to call from my script that only writes its output to a file, not to stdout. Faced with having to call this program a lot of times in parallel, I decided to fake up its output files via POSIX …

I'm currently writing a Python parser for GenBank files. I know BioPython has one, and it doesn't even suck, but BioPython requires a bunch of C extensions, so I can't go and just ship it with my Python application.

So I'm creating a BioPython-compatible API for the classes that I …

Following the hallowed US American tradition of declaring war on whatever things you don't like, I've decided to declare war on legacy code this week.

By legacy code, I mostly mean untested code, following the definition of Michael Feathers' book Working with Legacy Code. That's a great read, by the …

Hi folks,

you will have noticed that I failed to post any of my "On the way to Samba4" reports in December last year. That was because I failed to do any Samba work in December, spending all of my time on work-related things. A few co-workers and me had …