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I will be at the The Westin in Pasadena, CA for the Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF) this week, Tuesday evening to Thursday afternoon (June 21-23). I have a talk in Session A8 “Remote Data Exploration with IDL” (I’ll post slides later). Let me know if you are in the area and want to meet up!

UPDATE: Here are the slides.

The site will be down for routine maintenance this evening, July 1, around 10 pm MDT for approximately 6 hours.

Here are the most popular posts of 2009:

1. Apple Keynote templates for posters
2. Overview of flow visualization in IDL
3. Path management
4. IDL roadmap
5. Google Earth user function for ENVI
6. 1RM: Mac OS X Dashboard widget
7. Processing with Javascript
8. Regular expressions
9. Response to Why IDL Sucks
10. A simple 3D object graphics example

Only one of these was actually posted in 2009, 4 in 2006, 4 in 2008, and 1 “page”. So maybe this is like Star Trek movies, where only the even numbered years are good? Good thing we are in 2010 then!

Here are some (corny) science jokes for those who ended up working this week.

Link via BoingBoing.

I have always been amazed at how fast a new Mac OS X update is adopted by the community, so I have been checking the statistics for visitors to this site (all statistics quoted here are for the month of September). Among Mac users, Snow Leopard has passed Leopard (it happened over a week ago, but hasn’t changed much since then):

10.6 Snow Leopard  47.0%
10.5 Leopard       44.2%
10.4 Tiger          7.3%
Other               1.5%

While looking through the stats, I thought it would be interesting to share some other information about our rather unique demographic.

Continue reading “Reader statistics.”

I have recently finished some projects at work, so should have some time to write. Look for new articles soon.

I’m in Seattle for the rest of this week and part of next week. See you next Wednesday!

I’ll be at NASA Goddard on the evening of Feb. 13 and during the day on the 14th. Drop me a line if you want to meet up in Greenbelt.

I can’t help but point out yet another hilarious comic by the excellent xkcd. So is there an IDL mode for butterflies?

Of course, I use email (mgalloy at gmail dot com) and instant messaging (mgalloy at mac dot com). There are a couple other ways to stay in touch with me though.

Twitter is kind of like RSS for instant messaging. I’ve add my Twitter messages to the sidebar. They’re not very visible right now, but I’m planning to re-organize the site soon to make them a bit more prominent. Of course, if you use Twitter, just check me out there.

Especially if you were my student back when I was teaching IDL or have otherwise worked with me, I have a LinkedIn profile.

Also, check out the project sites for IDLdoc and mgunit. There is a user mailing list for IDLdoc.

Feel free to introduce yourself!