Archive for July, 2010
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
IDL 8.0: Operator overloading
Operator overloading is the feature in IDL 8.0 that I have been testing the most; I am already using it in a couple of my projects. The behavior of objects when used in expressions containing nearly any of IDL’s operators can be defined through special methods of the object.
1 Comment » - Posted in IDL,Objects by Michael Galloy
Monday, July 26th, 2010
IDL 8.0 webinar
I watched this “New Features and Functionality in IDL 8.0″ webinar live, but if you missed it, the recorded version is now available. It’s a great overview of the new features in IDL 8.0 by Mark Piper of ITT VIS.
No Comments » - Posted in IDL by Michael Galloy
Monday, July 26th, 2010
IDL 8.0: Help
IDL 8.0 introduces yet another help system. The help system inside the Workbench and the web server to view HTML pages are gone. This is welcome for me, as I did not like the 7.x help system and was wondering how long I could reasonably use the IDL Assistant from IDL 6.4. But I primarily [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in IDL by Michael Galloy
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
IDL 8.0: Lists and hashes
Fundamental data structures like lists and hashes have been needed in IDL for some time, but IDL 8.0 introduces them along with some related features/syntax for object-oriented programming to make them even more useful.
5 Comments » - Posted in IDL by Michael Galloy
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
IDL 8.0 released
IDL 8.0 is out! Download here (the normally long download was quite fast for me). Stay tuned for a sequence of articles here highlighting features I am excited about in IDL 8.0: lists and hashes, the new graphics routines, operator overloading, language changes, new help system, and Workbench changes.
No Comments » - Posted in IDL by Michael Galloy
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
MetaOptimize
MetaOptimize has a forum for asking and answering questions about data visualization, like comp.lang.idl-pvwave for visualization issues: Where data geeks ask and answer questions on machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, text analysis, information retrieval, search, data mining, statistical modeling, and data visualization! Haven’t asked/answered a question yet, but it looks like a good [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Visualization by Michael Galloy
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Site down for routine maintenance
The site will be down for routine maintenance this evening, July 1, around 10 pm MDT for approximately 6 hours.
