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Eclipse Ganymede (the successor to Europa) was released today. Ubuntu seems to be stuck on Eclipse 3.2 since at least Feisty Fawn. There are nice features that we are missing out on (Mylyn, inline renames, etc.).
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First things first, you need a JDK (Java SDK) in order to use Eclipse. I am a [...]

Recently, I needed to use pymedia, for some audio and video encoding. The problem though, is that pymedia was nowhere to be found in the Ubuntu Hardy Heron package repository, and the only .deb installation candidate from the pymedia website was for an older version of pymedia and Python 2.4. Not wanting to [...]

I am launching a social news site, bminews.com. It is a specialty site for practitioners in the fields of Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics.
Join in! I am looking for a site with great news on new developments, technologies, and opportunities in the field. Related topics (programming/consulting/career advice/math/scientific writing/conferences) are all encouraged.

I have been working on an open source project, jsonpickle. The goal of the project is to be able to serialize a Python object into standard JSON notation. Python can “pickle” objects into a special binary format, but sometimes it is nice to get a human-readable format. Especially with projects like CouchDB [...]