The Xgrid Tutorials (Part III): Running Batch Jobs
In the first installment of this Xgrid tutorial series, I introduced Xgrid and told you when to use it and how to use it….
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ChemDoodle Web Components For Mac
Protein Data Bank Demo and Canvas Technology Analysis In this article, I provide some background and analysis of the javascript/Canvas technology…
Tutorial: Applescript for Scientists (Part I)
This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of tutorials on Apple’s own scripting language Applescript. I…
The Dynamics of Scrolling
There has been quite a bit of discussion the last few days about the momentum-based scrolling that Apple uses on…
The Realities of Writing Technical Books for Mac
Around 3 years ago, I co-authored the book Beginning Mac OS X Programming with Mike Trent. It takes a broad look at…
Tuning Cocoa Applications Using DTrace: Writing Scripts
One of the great things about developing for the Mac or iPhone is the suite of performance and debugging tools…
Clusters and Supercomputers in Your Safe Finder? Meet MacFUSE.
I don’t know about you, but I often have to go through rings to retrieve output data from calculations run…
Security TCBuild: A New Build Tool for Fortran
Fortran 90 can include reasonably complex dependencies, which must be taken into account when building a multiple-file program. Unfortunately, most…
Lab Journal: Installing Sun Grid Engine on Xserve Cluster
I recently started a postdoctoral position and one of my first tasks was to get Sun Grid Engine up and…
Tuning Cocoa Applications Using DTrace: Custom Static Probes and Instruments
Within this section, I’ll show you how to answer even more specific questions about your application via the use of…
Advanced Fortran 90: Callbacks with the Transfer Function
This post is not specific to the Mac, but there are probably many MR readers that have to use Fortran…
Cocoa for Scientists
Articles in this series include: Hello Brave New World Classy Cocoa Living Objects Good References It’s All in the Genes…
Grant Writing on a Mac
As my grant writing has ramped up over the years, I’ve gradually brought my workflow over to the iWork suite…
Compiling MPI with f90 support on Snow Leopard
Good day friends, I am trying to compile the latest stable iteration of MPI, downloadable from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/index.php, on my MacBook…
OpenCL Security Tutorials
The OpenCL Tutorials: In iTunes, you can subscribe to the podcasts by going to: Advanced -> Subscribe to podcast URL:…
OpenCL Tutorial – OpenCL Fundamentals
Since Snow Leopard is coming soon, and the first episode of the series was well received I’m releasing the second…
Tinkering with Google App Engine
Google announced Google App Engine, their long-awaited answer to web services offered by Amazon and others. Google took a different approach to their…
Tutorial: Backups with Launchd for Mac
The other day at work someone asked me if there was some way to have OS X run an rsync…
Cocoa for Scientists (Part XXVII): Getting Closure with Objective-C
Last week, Chris Lattner — who manages the Clang, LLVM, and GCC groups at Apple — announced that work was well underway…
Who’s that Git?
If you do any sort of programming, be it in traditional languages like C or Fortran, scripting in Bash or…