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 …

I've decided to start the campaign by ditching the existing PHP web app. I lost all confidence in it last Friday, when I found that it only worked by accident, due to a well-placed typo. As I'm rewriting the web app anyway, I thought I could also ditch PHP altogether …

I just had to package up a python package to make installation of a software we use at work easier. The systems we run here are Suse- and Ubuntu-based, so I got to package RPMs and debs.

I did package the odd perl package and some bioinformatics tool before, but …