Tag Archives: coding

BaTS (and Befi-BaTS), SHiAT, and Genome Convergence Pipeline have moved!

Important – please take note! Headline: All my phylogenetics software is now on GitHub, not websites or Google Code Please use the new FAQ pages and issue/bug tracker forms, rather than emailing me directly in the first instance Until now, … Continue reading

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Embedding Artist profiles, playlists, and content from Spotify in HTML

Quick post this – turns out Spotify have added a really cool new function to their desktop application: You can now right-click any resource in Spotify (could be an artist, a playlist, a profile or a track or album) and get a … Continue reading

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Parsing numbers from multiple formats in Java

We were having a chat over coffee today and a question arose about merging data from multiple databases. At first sight this seems pretty easy, especially if you’re working with relational databases that have unique IDs (like, uh, a Latin … Continue reading

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Migrating to OS X Mavericks

The time has come, my friends. I am upgrading from 10.6.8 (‘Snow Leopard’) to 10.9 (‘Mavericks’) on my venerable and mistreated MacBook Pros (one is 2010 with a SATA drive, the other 2011 with an SSD). Common opinion holds that … Continue reading

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Befi-BaTS v0.1.1 alpha release

Long-overdue update for beta version of Befi-BaTS. Software: Befi-BaTS Author: Joe Parker Version: 0.1.1 beta (download here) Release notes: Befi-BaTS v0.1 beta drops support for hard polytomies (tree nodes with > 2 daughters), now throwing a HardPolytomyException to the error … Continue reading

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About this new site

As you can see, I’m running a new site now. Some content will be loaded pretty soon (old blogs, lyrics, music, software etc) but the design I want to do is pretty complicated, especially as the client-side stuff, so I … Continue reading

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