| Re: anything new? [message #80893 is a reply to message #80806] |
Tue, 17 July 2012 13:01  |
Jeremy Bailin
Messages: 618
Registered: April 2008
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On 7/16/12 11:47 AM, David Fanning wrote:
> Paul van Delst writes:
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>> Well, Coyote "retired".
>
> Maybe "finally got a life" is a better description. :-)
>
> I've spent the past two weekends cutting fallen trees
> off the trails in one of my favorite wilderness areas
> near here (170 trees cut on 12 miles of trail in the
> past 10 days!). We still have many miles of trail we
> haven't been on yet, so "logger" is on my resume now.
> I'm getting pretty good with an axe and a two-man saw.
>
> I've also taken a job with Michael Lefsky in the Center
> for Ecological Applications of Lidar (CEAL) at Colorado State
> University. We are working on algorithm development
> and visualization tools for the ICESAT-2 mission,
> scheduled to fly in 2016. At the moment, we are working
> with MABEL data, which is the airborne simulator data
> for a new photon-counting Lidar instrument to be flown
> on the mission.
>
> Although our plans are to eventually write visualization
> tools in Python, it is sometimes too easy to avail ourselves
> of the many advantages IDL offers for fast development.
> When we need a data browser, we need a data browser.
> Sometimes we don't have the leisure to spend two months
> learning how do to this in another language. (And I'm
> pretty sure what I wanted to do with panning and zooming,
> at the speed I wanted to do it, is not yet available in
> Python, anyway.)
>
> Michael Lefsky is a long-time IDL user and is committed
> to making the tools we build available to the wider IDL
> community, so my name might pop-up on IDL software
> from time to time. And, of course, this means I am
> committed to maintaining the Coyote Library for a long
> time into the foreseeable future, since all the tools
> we are building currently are built on top of this fast and
> flexible library of routines. The cgGoogleMapWidget
> object-widget I introduced last week is an example of
> this kind of shared development effort. As is the
> MabelBrower itself, which can be found here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mabelidl/
>
> So, I'll still be around for awhile longer, although
> leaving all the heavy lifting to the younger members
> of the newsgroup, who will find that researching
> and answering questions on the newsgroup is the fastest
> method available for becoming an IDL expert. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>
Well, I'm glad to hear you're doing fun stuff... sorry to hear that you
won't be around so much!
-Jeremy.
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