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Marcus D. Hanwell | Marcus leads the Open Chemistry project, developing open source tools for chemistry, bioinformatics, and materials science research. He completed an experimental PhD in Physics at the University of Sheffield, a Google Summer of Code developing Avogadro and Kalzium, and a postdoctoral fellowship combining experimental and computational chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Kitware in late 2009. He is now a Technical Leader in the Scientific Computing group at Kitware, a member of the Blue Obelisk, blogs, @mhanwell on Twitter and is active on Google+. He is passionate about open science, open source and making sense of increasingly large scientific data to understand the world around us.
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Great interview, glad to hear that you want to involve the wider community and not confine it to specialists. I think it is important to get everyone thinking about security, and finding ways to lower the barrier is really important.
This is where my background, and development work has focused. I would like to write an article about what I have done that works for me, but it mirrors many of the things you mentioned. I use CMake, Qt, OpenGL, C++, some Python. C++ gets you Windows, Linux, Mac, and also iOS and Android with a little glue. There are different strategies employed by different teams, and I think this is an interesting interview talking about tools I have not spent a lot of time with. Not the way I would (or have) do it, and I love the CMake approach to generate build systems for the environment of choice. Thanks for your comments.