Where to get general offline help with Julia?

[Joe Tusek]

Its embarrassing but where can you ask for some to provide offline assistance with porting over Matlab code to Julia, its exhausted me for now but I still need to get the code working?

[Tom Breloff]

Hi Joe.  I take it you haven't gotten enough help on this forum?  You could post a more complete example of what you're trying to port, and also what progress you've made.  Github gists are a good way to put lots of code in one place.  It might be that you're missing a simple/key concept which will help move you forward, in which case we need more info/code to help you.

If you try that and don't get a satisfactory response, you could support the guys at Julia Computing LLC (http://juliacomputing.com/) for some training/consulting.

[felip...@gmail.com]

#Clone julia repo:

> git clone g...@github.com:JuliaLang/julia.git

# go into docs folder

> cd julia/doc

# build the docs

> make html

[Steven G. Johnson]

You could always hire a consultant (e.g. http://juliacomputing.com/) if you need offline support.

[Joe Tusek]

I've got great assistance from the user-group, but I'm not wanting to wear out my welcome. Overall I find Julia documents good but lacking in the number and breadth of examples that would help fill in the missing bits for a person like me. The many web examples of Julia out there are at present mostly just a repeat of the same beginner examples and doesn't add much to the breadth of the information out there. The potential speed improvement in using Julia caught my eye as the Matlab code I am using contains an unoptimised PSO routine and cost function and takes anywhere from a day to 2 days to run. I was hoping porting to Julia would enable me to get that down to 2 - 3 iteration per day.  Learning by writing code for a purpose is a great way to learn but when you have taken a lot more time than you had for the task its then not the best. Writing code is not something I do for a living and its essentially for a love job which needs this code going.