Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

Reverse complement FASTA benchmark

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

FASTA format is used in bioinformatics to describe peptide sequences or nucleic acid sequences. One of the benchmarks at the computer languages game requires that a program parse a 'stdin' redirected input of these FASTA formated sequences and print the content of the sequence in reverse order. Each character in the ...

Atoi() or not to Atoi()

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Update: May 13th, 2008 My solution has been accepted and placed in the interesting alternative category. A bitter-sweet victory considering my program as tested by their standards is the fastest C language entry . It is still a small honor to be recognized and to know that my entry shaved off ...

CSC209 - build . a simple make-like tool

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Assignment 1 for CSC209 course at University of Toronto in Software Tools and Systems Programming Build In this assignment a student is required to write a program in Bourne shell that performs some of the same operations that make does . A simpler file format for a ...

OrangeStats - Team Fortress 2 log file parser

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Orange Stats is a Python script that will parse Team Fortress 2 server log files in order to aggregate the data for later use. Regular expressions capture events as written to the log file by the game server. Each event has a corresponding structure containing various information such as : ...

Unreal Tournament 3 resource package explorer!

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Upkextract is a very early release of a simple utility that can open and parse the binary .upk packages shipped with Unreal Tournament 3. These packages are designed to be used by the game engine as well as by Unreal Editor. Contents within these archive varies from textures to sounds ...