Jon Smillie - ANU Supercomputer Facility

Handy Tools

• GOOGLE
• YouTube
• Wikipedia

Programming Resources

• Rails Framework Documentation
• Rails API Documentation
• rubyonrails.org
• Subversion revision control
• Perl.org
• O'Reilly Perl.com site
• Perl CPAN site
• Python.org
• Python.org documentation
• GNU Software

Tools and Packages

• PostgreSQL Interactive Documentation
• MySQL 6.0 Reference Manual
• FITSIO
• PyFITS documentation
• IRAF.net
• LIGO Data Replicator

MACHO Project Web Services

• MACHO IVOA standards-compliant services
• MACHO Original Web Interface
• Administration notes for MACHO Original Web Interface

Virtual Observatory Projects

• Aus-VO: The Australian Virtual Observatory Project
• The ATNF Australian Virtual Observatory Page
• The IAU Working Group on Astronomical Data
• The UQ Virtual Observatory Project
• IVOA: International Virtual Observatory Alliance
• AstroGrid Project
• NVO: US National Virtual Observatory
• The European Virtual Observatory
• Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre

VO Papers

• "Integrating the MACHO Data-set with the Virtual Observatory." Presented at AusGrid 2005 - February 2005, Newcastle, Australia
• "Virtual Observatory Initiatives at the Australian National University." Prepared for APAC03 - September 2003, Gold Coast, Australia

VO Presentations

• "Data and Grid Methods in Astronomy." Presented at Clever Collections 2007 - November 2007, Melbourne Australia
• "Integrating the MACHO Data-set with the Virtual Observatory." Updated Sept. 2007
• "Integrating the MACHO Data-set with the Virtual Observatory." Presented at AusGrid 2005 - February 2005, Newcastle, Australia
• "ANU Internet Futures and the Virtual Observatory." Presented at Aus-Grid Forum 2003
• "APAC and GrangeNet Data Grid projects at the ANU." Presented at Aus-Grid Forum 2002
• "ANU Internet Futures projects summary." 2004

Bits and Pieces ....

• Setting up svn+ssh under Windows
• SSH Public-key authentication setup
• SSH Gotchas
• Adding Rails support for PostgreSQL geometric types
• Rails 2.1 incompatibility with PostgreSQL 8.1.11 on CREATE DATABASE action
• Rails 2.1 MySQL error with schema_table index creation
• PuTTY Windows SSH client

A final word on The Grid ...