STILTS is a very useful program, in particular to convert [VOTABLE] between several serializations. But can be difficult to use outside of TOPCAT

They are several ways of efficient programming with IDL. The most common way is to use the IDL Thread Pool, which is implemented in several routines and operation on large arrays. But sometimes, matrix or large vector operations are not possible, and/or not sufficient. Sometimes, we would like to …

Combining D3js mpld3 and Pelican

This is a quick migration of old tests using D3js.

Writing and publishing a website used to be a painful process. Some years ago, I developped a simple xslt framework to produce my personnal web pages from simple xml files. This was in part because I did not liked any of the big CMS out at that time, requiring database …

I wanted to move from an bulky svn repository containing several projects to smaller git repositories to allow for easy distribution of the files and tracking of the code. Of course, while doing that, I wanted to keep the file history... I could not use the classic filter-branch as I …

Long forgotten GILDAS Tips & Tricks.