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I work in the Developmental Resource for Biophysical Imaging Opto-Electronics (DRBIO) group at Cornell's Department of Biomedical Engineering. My primary role involves writing data acquisition and control software for a next-generation multiphoton laser-scanning microscope.

MPM Development

As an experiment, we're currently using a blog to disseminate information related to the multiphoton development work. Check the DRBIO Blog for periodic updates. Contact: pl47@cornell.edu

Free Resources

Very good reference on C++ programming:
Thinking in C++, Vol.1 and Thinking in C++, Vol.2 (Change your browser's character encoding to Western (Windows) if you encounter problems with certain character displays.)
Toolkits for developing GUI applications:
wxWidgets: wxWidgets manual and wxWidgets book in PDF; plus building it with MS Visual Studio
Qt: Qt reference documentation and C++ GUI Programming with Qt4 (2nd ed.)
Software design and refinement:
GoF Design Patterns; Pattern tutorials (includes C++); More code examples (in Java); Refactoring catalog
Embedded hardware:
PIC Microcontrollers; PIC Microcontrollers in C
Techniques in MATLAB:
Numerical Computing with MATLAB; Experiments with MATLAB