Some links to stuff I’ve either read or plan to read which I think is interesting: Python is not Java, tips for Java programmers starting w/ Python: http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html Python for Bioinformatics: http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/sis/formation/python/index.html BioPython: http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html I need to know Selenium better, it’s possible that I might consider using it for a project I might be working [...]

If your installing RAD 7.5 (IBM Rational Application Developer) on Debian or Ubuntu, install the libstdc++5 package: apt-get install libstdc++5

Doesn’t perform badly, I’ve been using it recently with Ruby code, and I like how it colourises the code to make editing code easier, and performs it auto-completion and method lookup (basically all the features you’d expect with a modern IDE). It’s does’t startup as fast as using Emacs, or vi, but I find the [...]

So I wanted to install Eclipse at home, the version that comes with Debian is 3.2.2-5 and I wanted to try 3.3.x and install WTP and some other plugins that aren’t packaged with Debian (anyone know why?). After downloading and installing Eclipse the welcome screen would appear with an error message saying: Error creating the [...]

Is borked! First, changes to some spring projects that it depends on broke the Jetspeed. Jetspeed uses Maven 2, so the spring it uses is an imported Maven project which had a depenceny that wasn’t required and was undownloadable and causes the Jetspeed build to fail. Now I get an error that few people can [...]