Archive for the 'Programming' Category

ToonTalk

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

It looks like our initiative to port all of our code to a more compact and efficient language didn’t get very far. So what next?

Producing Open Source Software

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Here are some notes on the book Producing Open Source Software. The book does an excellent job of explaining how open source projects work and how they deal with typical problems.

Object Store Benchmark

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Berkeley DB JE and ehcache are two simple libraries for persistent storage of serialized Java objects. How good are they at handling large data sets?

Simplicity

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Looks like simplicity is finally starting to be fashionable.

Biozon

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

Biozon is a web server at Cornell that “integrates roughly 2 million protein sequences, 42 million DNA or RNA sequences, 32’000 protein structures, 150’000 interactions and more from sources such as GenBank, UniProt, Protein Data Bank (PDB) and BIND.”

Swiss-Perfect

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

For years people have been misspelling Swiss-Prot