Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming is the personal web page for IDL consultant and trainer David Fanning’s alter ego, Coyote. You are never sure what you are going to find here, but it is always guaranteed to be funny, interesting, or related to IDL^* in some vague way. The site is especially well known for its IDL Tips and Tricks section, for its well-written and documented IDL programs, and for the most important article ever written about IDL, JD Smith’s famous explanation of the all-powerful Histogram command: “Histogram: The Breathless Horror and Disgust”. David is the author of IDL Programming Techniques, 2nd Edition, a book that for one bright moment was as popular as 20-year-old copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s old novels in the on-line bookstores. Coyote is the past Chairman of the IDL Expert Programmer's Association, a once famous, but now debauched, association of letcherous programmers known as the “dinosaurs.”

Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming is a resource for people who want to learn more about IDL. I appreciate your comment, suggestions and questions. This is what Mark Hadfield, an IDL user in New Zealand, had to say after he spent some time poking around here: Your IDL programming site is a BLOODY TREASURE, what we call in New Zealand a "taonga". RSI should pay you a great deal of money for turning their powerful but cranky data analysis system into something useful, approaching elegance. Alas, there's no money in it. But I do enjoy hearing from people who read it. Enjoy!