Building CASA using SCons

I've put together a prototype SCons build framework for CASA, here is a brief description:

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/alma/sweng/casabuild.html

The advantages are that it will be hopefully clearer and easier to extend the build with SCons, and also the parallel build functionality can accelerate the process significantly. On the computer I've been using the whole build from scratch takes about 18 minutes

CASA -- some opinions and suggestions on software engineering aspects

I've posted a very short document with some suggestions for further development of the CASA (http://casa.nrao.edu/) package here:

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/publications/2009/CASARev2009.pdf

Any comments & opinions on my opinions very welcome!

First WVR and interferometric observations at the OSF

The first simultaneous WVR and interferometric observations at the OSF were taken on the night of 4th October at 230 GHz. There are some quick plots linked from this ALMA Science IPT meeting page:

https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/ALMA/21Oct09Agenda

They look encouraging...

Science at Q-band meeting, Manchester

I am at the science at Q-band meeting for the first part of this week:

http://www.alma.ac.uk/documents/science-at-q-band-early-summer-2009

See you maybe here...

Radio interferometry at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths -- lecture at ERIS

This is the lecture I gave at the European Radio Interferometry School:

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/publications/2009/NikolicERIS2009.pdf

European Radio Interferometry School 2009

I will be at the European Radio Interferometry School in Oxford for a couple of days next week:

http://astrowiki.physics.ox.ac.uk/ERIS2009/WebHome

See you maybe there...

New version of AATM

I've released a new version of the ALMA atmospheric modelling library.

You can view what is new and grab the source code at:

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/alma/atmomodel.html#Current+version%3A+V0.08

As a side note, we are experimenting with the use of the collaborative platform launchpad. The project page is:

https://launchpad.net/aatm