I recently had a reason to parse a large data set, for another project. I decided that an ideal “large data set” would be my Outlook mail saved archives. Sadly, Outlook for Mac doesn’t output PST files, it outputs OLM archives, which are, essentially, giant zip files full of XML. I was coding this all in Java, so I needed a Java library to parse OLM files.
The resulting source code is here. Schema for OLM XML is here.
I’ve tried a couple different mp3 taggers to tag my mp3 library, however, most seem to have trouble with large mp3 libraries. So, after doing some reading about AcoustID and MusicBrainz I decided to quickly code up my own tagger, MusicBrainzTagger. MusicBrainzTagger is a command-line application which recurses a directory of mp3 files and tags…
I recently had a chance to learn a little about Bioinformatics, and ended up browsing the NIH’s database of genomes here. Inside the genome data for any particular strain of a species, you’ll find various files with file extensions like “ffa”, “fna”, “ffn” and “frn”. These are FASTA files. If you’d like an example, here’s…
Commons Math is an Apache library which includes a variety of mathematical tools, including 1st and 2nd-order ODE solvers. In order to familiarize myself with the ODE solvers, I wrote a simple program to solve an RC charging circuit. The circuit has these parameters: R (ohms), the resistance of the resistor C (farads), the capacitance…
I recently had a reason to need a TELNET server and couldn’t find a Java library that worked for me. After a weekend of hacking, I now have kTelnet, an Open-source, BSD-licensed, TELNET server.
Back in the day, Paradox was a pretty amazing database. I recently had a reason to read some Paradox files for a friend, who had a client with a Paradox database. They needed their data out of the database to insert into something more modern. Googling for the file format of a Paradox DB didn’t…
A couple projects I’ve been working on have a need for a REPL style console. I had written a simple framework for creating REPL’s, which is open-sourced here.