From m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk Thu Oct 6 01:45:40 2011 From: m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk (Mark Taylor) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:45:40 +0100 (BST) Subject: Pune programme Message-ID: Hallo applicationers, I hope to (more or less) finalise the programme for our three Apps WG sessions in Pune over the next couple of days. The talks which will be included are listed at http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpOct2011Applications There is still space for a few more, so if anybody else would like to present some applications work in Pune, please let me have a title soon. thanks Mark -- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/ From m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk Mon Oct 10 05:23:37 2011 From: m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk (Mark Taylor) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:23:37 +0100 (BST) Subject: Pune programme In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Apps, Thanks to those who have submitted talks for the Applications WG sessions next week. The applications programme is now more or less finalised - see http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpOct2011Applications for the schedule. Any last minute changes let me know I'll see what I can do. There is 15 minutes allocated for each submitted talk including questions; shorter talks are allowed! If you want to change the title or author of your talk, feel free to edit the wiki. See you in Pune, Mark On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Mark Taylor wrote: > Hallo applicationers, > > I hope to (more or less) finalise the programme for our three Apps WG > sessions in Pune over the next couple of days. The talks which will > be included are listed at > http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpOct2011Applications > There is still space for a few more, so if anybody else would like to > present some applications work in Pune, please let me have a title soon. > > thanks > > Mark > > -- > Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK > m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/ > -- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/ From aaccomazzi at cfa.harvard.edu Tue Oct 11 06:17:47 2011 From: aaccomazzi at cfa.harvard.edu (Alberto Accomazzi) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:17:47 -0400 Subject: Pune programme In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E9441FB.6070109@cfa.harvard.edu> Hi Mark, I would like to show our progress on the VAO AstroExplorer study project in one of the apps sessions. It would probably fit best at the end of the 3rd session, although it does not use SAMP yet, but relates to the "widget" model that Sebastien will speak about. Sorry for the late notice, originally I thought of talking about this in the Semantics or DC&P sessions but it definitely fits better in your program. Thanks, -- Alberto Mark Taylor wrote: > Hi Apps, > > Thanks to those who have submitted talks for the Applications WG sessions > next week. The applications programme is now more or less finalised - see > > http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpOct2011Applications > > for the schedule. Any last minute changes let me know I'll see what > I can do. > > There is 15 minutes allocated for each submitted talk including questions; > shorter talks are allowed! > > If you want to change the title or author of your talk, feel free to > edit the wiki. > > See you in Pune, > > Mark > > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Mark Taylor wrote: > >> Hallo applicationers, >> >> I hope to (more or less) finalise the programme for our three Apps WG >> sessions in Pune over the next couple of days. The talks which will >> be included are listed at >> http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpOct2011Applications >> There is still space for a few more, so if anybody else would like to >> present some applications work in Pune, please let me have a title soon. >> >> thanks >> >> Mark >> >> -- >> Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK >> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/ >> > > -- > Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK > m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/ -- Dr. Alberto Accomazzi aaccomazzi(at)cfa harvard edu Program Manager NASA Astrophysics Data System ads.harvard.edu Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics www.cfa.harvard.edu 60 Garden St, MS 83, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA From santoshj at iucaa.ernet.in Wed Oct 12 04:13:01 2011 From: santoshj at iucaa.ernet.in (Santosh Jagade) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:43:01 +0530 (IST) Subject: Android Name Resolver 1.0 Beta Release In-Reply-To: <1604276747.182426.1318417920191.JavaMail.root@iucaa.ernet.in> Message-ID: <13142988.182432.1318417981876.JavaMail.root@iucaa.ernet.in> Dear All, We are happy to announce the release of Android Name Resolver v1.0 Beta. The calculator is published as a downloadable *.apk file which can be installed on any Android device. The Name Resolver application allows the user to input the name of celestial object and returns basic information about the object such as RA/DEC values associated with that object and some other information such as redshift, proper motion,parallax etc (if applicable) using either the SIMBAD or NED service. To access SIMBAD and NED, Android Name Resolver application uses system default internet connection; i.e. either Wi-Fi or GPRS. The release *.zip file (including the *.apk file) is available for download at: http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/voandroidresolver.htm Features of the android application include: - Name Resolver runs on Android device locally (one time installation). - It resolves celestial object name to associated RA/DEC value. - It also provides Redshift, Proper motion and parallax values (if present). - The Resolver supports SIMBAD and NED services. Complete change log is available at: http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/Android_Name_Resolver_ChangeLog.html Please send your suggestions and comments at voindia at vo.iucaa.ernet.in. Regards, VO-India Team From m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk Wed Oct 26 06:27:57 2011 From: m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk (Mark Taylor) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:27:57 +0100 (BST) Subject: JSAMP v1.3-1 released; please consider upgrading Message-ID: [posted to apps & apps-samp lists - apologies for duplication] Hi all, I have just released JSAMP v1.3-1. You can find it in the usual place: http://software.astrogrid.org/doc/jsamp/ The most important change is that when the Hub is started, the Web Profile now runs by default. The other significant thing is that the Web Profile now has a new security measure: by default only certain named MTypes (currently [samp.app.*, samp.msg.progress, bibcode.*, coord.*, image.*, spectrum.*, table.*, voresource.*]) can be sent from a web client; others are blocked by the hub. The intention of this is that by restricting messages sent to ones with known, harmless, semantics, hostile web clients are less likely to be able to do bad things. This restriction can be switched off by explicit user action. This measure is experimental and may be modified or withdrawn at some point in the future (opinions/feedback welcome). The full story on security measures can be found in the "Profiles" section of the docs. (There are a few other minor changes at this version which can be seen in the "Change Log" section). The conclusion from discussions at Pune was that web application deployers would like science users to be able to use Web SAMP capabilities now, which means they need to be running Web Profile capable hubs. The most effective way to make this happen is for those desktop applications which bundle a hub to configure it to run the Web Profile by default. For this reason, developers of applications which bundle a JSAMP hub are encouraged to upgrade to the current version in the near future. I will be starting the ball rolling by releasing a TOPCAT which runs JSAMP 1.3-1, and hence the Web Profile by default, shortly. To get an idea of how widely the Web Profile is going to be available to users, I would be interested to hear from other developers of VO apps, either directly or on list, if/when they plan to do the same. Any feedback, bug reports, requests for help, etc related to the new JSAMP version are welcome as always, Mark -- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/ From thomas.boch at astro.unistra.fr Wed Oct 26 06:56:20 2011 From: thomas.boch at astro.unistra.fr (Thomas Boch) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:56:20 +0200 Subject: JSAMP v1.3-1 released; please consider upgrading In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4EA81184.3040606@astro.unistra.fr> Hi Mark, > I will be starting the ball rolling by releasing a TOPCAT which > runs JSAMP 1.3-1, and hence the Web Profile by default, shortly. > To get an idea of how widely the Web Profile is going to be > available to users, I would be interested to hear from other > developers of VO apps, either directly or on list, if/when they > plan to do the same. > I plan to integrate JSAMP 1.3-1 hub in Aladin, and release this change in a beta version shortly. Cheers, Thomas From m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk Fri Oct 28 01:03:37 2011 From: m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk (Mark Taylor) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:03:37 +0100 (BST) Subject: TOPCAT/STILTS release Message-ID: Hi all, this is to announce the following releases: TOPCAT v3.9 http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/ STILTS v2.4 http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/ STIL v3.0-3 http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/ These releases feature significant improvements to crossmatching: asymmetric match options (often better for crowded fields than the existing Best Match Only option) and capabilities for matching general elliptical shapes on a plane or the sky. Some notable usability improvements include degree-based angular calculation functions (alongside the existing radian-based ones), ability to reorder columns by dragging them in the columns window, ability to discard multiple tables at once, ADQL syntax checking (thanks to Gregory Mantelet's ADQL library from CDS) ... and more! Finally, the SAMP hub launched by this version of TOPCAT has the new Web Profile turned on by default, allowing SAMP-enabled web pages to communicate with TOPCAT and other desktop tools. Full details of the changes, which include the usual crop of bug fixes and minor enhancements, can be found here: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/sun253/versions.html http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/sun256/versions.html http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/sun252/history.html Thanks as ever to all the user feedback which has contributed to these updates. Please send any comments, bug reports, questions etc to the topcat-user list or to me. Mark -- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/