What is this?

I spend a lot of time writing various kinds of scripts to support activities in our lab at UC Davis. They range from system administration scripts to scripts used to set up or analyse data from experiments to "helper" scripts for formatting various kinds of documents. Sometimes it helps to write about the scripting process, which I have generally done in the form of notes to myself, a kind of brainstorming and autodocumentation. I decided that it might be useful to do it online instead. That way, someone else might find something useful or something to avoid, and I might get a useful suggestion or two about it.

So in that spirit, I'm going to kick off this blog with various projects that are underway.