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Yoctogi: A FastCGI Database-Interface
Yoctogi is a tiny FastCGI server that provides a simple interface for querying denormalised databases. Its JSON/HTTP interface permits to submit queries as JSON objects, which is compatible with the Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) of libraries such as jQuery or MooTools. Query results are returned as either JSON object, as TSV file, or as Excel […]
flystockdb: An Open-Source Experience
May 9, 2011
In my previous posts I have presented flystockdb, which is a free on-line Drosophila melanogaster database that I am working on in my spare time. flystockdb‘s initial development started at the University of Manchester as part of the grant: Establishment of a Drosophila Core facility Biomedical resources grant; 087742/Z/08/Z; 2009-12, Wellcome Trust Dr R. Baines*, Dr C. […]
Ruby Goodies
June 19, 2010
Ruby is an interpreted language very similar to Python, but it also borrows syntax and semantics from Perl and other languages wherever appropriate. Its strength lies in the readability of Ruby programs, which are concise and yet syntactically naturally to understand. In the following I give some examples of very powerful implementations that only take […]
EMBL: Comparing a Legacy Data-Format with its XML-Offspring
April 15, 2010
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is becoming the ubiquitous format for storing data in many applications as well as transferring data between even more applications. Born in the mid 90s, it is a child of the Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML), which was intended to prepare documents for machine processing.¹ It is therefore not surprising that […]
State of Affairs: Eiffel
March 9, 2010
A good wine needs time to mature and perhaps this folklore can be extended to programming languages soon too. Eiffel was born in 1985 as a statically-typed multiple-inheritance generic-class-template object-oriented language and has since been continuously extended, even though the language itself has only been modified moderately. In other words, the language standard has been […]
Portfolio
September 27, 2011
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