Refactoring your code!

tmoore — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:36:00 +0000

My current programming project is Objective-C application for MacOSX to generate climate model results in the form of a web site and a PDF. It's actually a complete write of an existing application.

Why rewrite? The original code was built over many months, is stringy, and very hard to maintain. To get an idea of how hard, I've tried to rewrite this application five (yes, 5) times. The original application was designed to generate NCAR Command Lanaguage (NCL) scripts that generate hundreds of images based on climate model results. From there, the application generated makefiles that would continue the processing by running NCL for each script, convert the resulting postscript images into jpegs, and finally using FOP and Docbook to generate HTML and PDF documents with all the images and some related text.

Climate Model on a Mac Project #5: Installing additional software

tmoore — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:38:00 +0000

The climate model I'm planning to run is compatible with the g95 compiler, not gfortran. So, first thing was to download and install the g95 binaries.

The next step is to download and compile the NetCDF libraries from NCAR. Before configuring, I had to export the FC environment variable to g95 to get it to compile correctly with g95. Running make check also passed.

Other tools (at least for me) that are needed, but won't describe is svn, git, and nco.

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Refactoring your code!

Climate Model on a Mac Project #5: Installing additional software