Software

Here's a list of software commonly used in the department. You may wish to add tips or questions to the program's wiki page.

Mac

• Dreamweaver -- HTML/CSS editing program
• Aptana -- HTML / CSS editing program with a different IDE from dreamweaver (some advantages for each)
• MS Office -- Excel, Powerpoint etc.
• fugu -- a nice GUI version of SFTP/SCP for the Mac

Linux

• Loggernet -- Campbell Scientific's data retrieval program
• Perl -- Handy programming/scripting language for all sorts of things
• Ruby -- A very object-oriented language we're just beginning to use

Windows

• Dreamweaver -- HTML/CSS editing program
• Aptana -- HTML / CSS editing program with a different IDE from dreamweaver (some advantages for each)
• MS Office -- Excel, Powerpoint etc.
• Adobe PDF tools -- Making PDFs (free alternatives also available)
• Adobe Photoshop -- Image Manipulation
• Adobe Illustrator -- Graphics creation
• Irfanview -- Image viewing program more flexible than the default Microsoft Image viewer
• Cygwin -- linux utilities for Windows
• ArcGIS -- ESRI's GIS program
• Putty -- Small suite of tools for doing SSH/SFTP/SCP
• SSH Secure Shell -- An alternative tool for doing SSH/SFTP
• Origin -- A fancy plotting & graph program
• Surfer -- A fancy plotting & graph program
• Perl -- Handy programming language for all sorts of things
• Loggernet -- Campbell Scientific's data retrieval program

WERC in-house software development

• data-gathering system, written in Perl:
  • Campbell::Comm -- perl module to interface Campbell CR10 loggers
  • querylogger.pl -- query remote loggers
  • loggerdata.pl -- automatic downloads from remote loggers
  • WERC datasite architecture -- setup & conventions assumed by the above