A large part of the HDF5 usability story is the story of the HDF5 community. If it weren’t for community projects such as PyTables, h5py, rhdf5, HDFql, etc., the HDF5 library would have remained an obscure and highly unusable technical detail. I want to use this HDF clinic to draw your attention to PureHDF , an independent implementation of HDF5 in C#/.NET. By ‘independent,’ I mean independent of the HDF5 library. This is no small achievement and offers a fresh perspective on what’s possible with modern languages and platforms. If you thought that .NET was a Windows-only Microsoft thing, then this is your chance to experience a modern, free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building many different types of applications, and HDF5 is a first-class citizen.
Call the Doctor is a series of weekly, unscripted, live events! The HDF Group’s staff members will answer attendee questions and, for example, go over the previous week’s HDF Forum posts. The HDF Clinics are free sessions intended to help users tackle real-world HDF problems from a common cold to severe headaches and offer relief where that’s possible. As time permits, we will include how-tos, offer advice on tool usage, review your code samples, teach you survival in the documentation jungle, and discuss what’s new or just around the corner in the land of HDF.
Join us every Tuesday at 12:20 p.m. central (US/Canada.) on Zoom!