A non-coders attempts at writing useful code
Posted in Python on Nov 23rd, 2010
I had first heard of Mitch Granaats boto thanks to “Monster Muck Mashup” where he used boto to build a video transcoding service using amazons compute and storage cloud EC2 and S3. Being a relative python newbie then, I remember reading the code examples and not understanding what they were doing entirely. After a long [...]
I have been using pymol for a while , but only recently did I start using python scripts to automate my tasks within pymol. The extreme power of pymols API allows you to call python scripts from within a Pymol session as I have done in the screencast. This text will be replaced Additional Links [...]
Posted in Python, Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2009
Its been a while since I blogged . Just a lot happening on the crystallography side of things to allow me the time to blog. I have also been coding a lot lately and have gotten started with some GUI writing in wxpython. This post is about trying to get back into the groove by [...]
Posted in diveintopython, Excel, Python, TinySeqXML, Uncategorized, UnicodeEncodeError on Apr 12th, 2007
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-_6tiTR8v0] XML is a great way to organize information. I first learnt of the power of XML to systematize information when I used it to output a whole bunch of search results from NCBI in the Tinyseq XML format. Once I had this XML document , I could read it into Excel and then very [...]
Posted in Excel, Java, Javascript, Matlab, Python on Apr 11th, 2007
This blog is roughly about my attempts to codify , algorithmize and systematize everything I do. In it I will hopefully detail my march to coding and getting proficient in a bunch of computer languages. After a long process of looking around , I have narrowed my focus to the following 3 languages in no [...]