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Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs [message #62735 is a reply to message #62734]

Thu, 02 October 2008 07:19

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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David Fanning writes:

> A note on the Catalyst Library. It is clear that I am not going
> to have time to write the blockbuster best-seller Coyote's Guide to
> the Catalyst Library, so I'm afraid that avenue for getting rich is
> closing on me. So my current plan is to give this code away for
> free, shortly after or coincident with a lecture I am giving at
> the next IDL User's Group meeting in Boulder on October 16th.
> That lecture will be about writing direct graphics objects,
> and will expose the exceedingly simple ideas behind the Catalyst
> Library.
>
> I'm pretty convinced that my library, without any documentation
> at all, will be easier for IDL programmers to use then the iTools
> library with all the documentation in the world. :-)

It occurs to me that what I ought to do is set this up as
an Open Source project with a Wiki so I can get YOU to write
the damn documentation. Humm. I'm looking to retire. Does
anyone know how to do such a thing?

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: Mike[2] on Thu, 02 October 2008 10:41
		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 02 October 2008 10:29
		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 October 2008 10:15
		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 02 October 2008 09:43
		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 October 2008 07:58
		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: FÖLDY Lajos[1] on Thu, 02 October 2008 07:57
		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: Mike[2] on Thu, 02 October 2008 07:38
		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 October 2008 07:19
		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 October 2008 07:06
		Re: Updates to Popular Coyote Library Programs By: Brian Larsen on Wed, 01 October 2008 16:33

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