IDLdoc 3.3 has been released! To download, head over to idldoc.idldev.com. New features in this release are: Created tutorial and reference manual documentation. Added embed directive to embed SVG or other graphics formats. For the “latex” comment style, .svg will be replaced with .pdf. Directory overview comments can be picked up from a .idldoc file [...]
I'm a software developer focusing on high-performance computing and visualization in scientific programming. I work mostly in IDL, but occasionally use C, CUDA, and Python.
I work for Tech-X Corporation, where I am the main developer for GPULib, a library of IDL bindings for GPU accelerated computation routines.
I am the creator and main developer for the open source projects IDLdoc, mgunit, and rIDL.
Contact me at +Michael Galloy, @mgalloy, or via email at mgalloy at gmail dot com. For more details about me, see my CV/resume.
Need consulting/instruction? Contact me.
Modern IDL offers IDL programmers one place to look, for beginners and advanced users alike.
"... But I've always wanted a thorough, concise, up-to-date overview of the the IDL language and its vast capabilities. This is exactly what Mike's book provides in 464 very informative pages... Highly recommended!"
—Mort Canty
Modern IDL offers IDL programmers one place to look, for beginners and advanced users alike. This book also contains: a thorough tutorial on the core topics of IDL; a comprehensive introduction to the object graphics system; common problems and gotchas with many examples; advanced topics not normally found are discussed throughout the book: regular expressions, object graphics, advanced widget programming, performance, object-oriented programming, etc.
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