Posted by Jason Morrison | Jan 28th, 2008

Installing redland-1.0.7 from source on Ubuntu 7.10

The Ubuntu packages for the Redland RDF libraries seem to have an issue, at least for the Ruby bindings (see Ruby objects to cyclic dependency about the “cyclic include detected” issue), so I installed it from source. <p>In case I need to do this again (or someone else does), here are the steps I took for installing Redland on Ubuntu 7.10:</p> Get the GNU MP Bignum library: sudo apt-get...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Jan 16th, 2008

Bio eye for the CS guy (or gal!)

Lately, as a result of my fascination with Synthetic Biology, I have been reading biology and bioinformatics references voraciously. More on Synthetic Biology to come, but I encourage you to read up on it. It suffices to say that it greatly appeals to me, coming from a Computer Science and engineering background. When you throw “refactoring” and “bacteriophage” into the same paper...