Making OS X Lion work

Luckily just got my hands on a new and funky macbook pro with OS X Lion to help with user support. Here's how to turn it from a pretty paperweight into a computer (i.e. install compilers)

(1) install your updates to latest OS X
(2) get apple ID for app store
(3) install XCode from app store
(4) register as apple developer
(5) XCode -> preferences -> download (add command-line tools) -> install

Manual

One of the most common (and it has to be said, most reasonable) complaints I have heard about xia2 is the absence of the manual. I am now working on this, to be included in the next release of the program.

The first version will no doubt be rather rough, so I will welcome any feedback on it when it becomes available.

Testing in preparation for release

Finally gearing up for a release, got to run some extensive testing first.

Mosflm / Pilatus

The beta for mosflm 7.0.8 appears to work much better with Pilatus data than the released 7.0.7 version - if you're using data from a 2M or 6M, I would strongly recommend the upgrade.

CCP4 Study Weekend 2012

I'll be at the CCP4 study weekend in the new year to talk about xia2 - in the main session as well as the lunchtime bytes. If you've any ideas of things you'd like to know about in the lunchtime bytes please make a note below or drop me a line at the usual address...

See you there!

Aimless for merging data from XDS (N.B. not yet scaling!) now working

Bloody edge of svn has this working, which is useful if like me you have better things to be doing than recompiling Scala a lot :o)

Will be in forthcoming 0.3.4 release. Any time now.

Aimless

Have been working on including Aimless from Phil Evans (his "Pointless" replacement for Scala) and if you would like to try this out, the code is now in the trunk. Usual svn checkout, download aimless 0.1.4 or later from Phil's FTP site, then run -2da.

Early results show that it makes the overall xia2 pipeline quite a bit faster, while maintaining the quality of results. Worth looking at.