Quick, name the most popular online technical forum for chemistry. Having a hard time coming up with an answer? You’re not alone. Despite a few attempts, there is no widely-recognized place to go online to exchange technical information in chemistry. Some Examples If you look hard, you can find chemically-oriented forums scattered around the Web. For example: Chemical Forums Perhaps the best-known discussion board for chemistry.
Technical books generally fall into one of two categories: tutorials, which rely on examples; and references, which use a high-level, architecture-centric perspective. If you prefer tutorials loaded with good examples framed in relevant context, then Andrew Dupont’s Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us may be worth reading.
On a recent article describing ChemPhoto, Oleg Ursu commented: Although the appearance is similar, the purpose is different.
Depending on the audience and medium, chemical structures can be presented in a variety of styles. Chemical structure imaging applications should make it easy to visually and/or numerically arrive at the best appearance. ChemPhoto makes it easy to get exactly the right look for your structures through what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) drawing settings.
Chemical structure imaging software solves the problem of how to easily create large numbers of readable chemical structures in a variety of formats automatically. ChemPhoto was recently introduced as what appears to be the first chemical structure imaging application. With development of the ChemPhoto user interface now in full-swing, it’s possible to show some screenshots.
The old adage says time is money. Unfortunately, working chemists are often forced to spend a remarkable amount of valuable time and mental effort on menial chemical information processing tasks. These are things that could be done faster and with better quality by the right software, if it were available. Most importantly, these tasks take resources away from much more valuable work that can’t be automated.
Back when I started writing Java software in 1997, the Java Virtual Machine was slow . It was so slow that for years, many developers abandoned all hope of using the language for “serious” work once it became clear how much slower it was than C and C++. Eleven years of Moore’s Law compounding, and countless JVM optimizations later, Java is so fast today that relative speed is rarely even considered when developing client and server
As widely covered in the technical and popular press (example), later today Google is releasing the first version of its new Web browser, Chrome. What makes Chrome different from the seemingly endless array of browsers already available? For now, we’ll have to make do with the, umm, whitepaper.
The previous article in this series discussed the use of Prototype to build a simple cheminformatics model. But there’s much more to Prototype than an improved class-like syntax. This article discusses one specific way that Prototype enhances JavaScript collections through iterators.
