Fixes suggested by my mom (Lynn Duncan)

[thesis.git] / src / pyafm / main.bib

diff --git a/src/pyafm/main.bib b/src/pyafm/main.bib
index e1366d292b36811bd62dfaf1f393934a65834884..3d0e9755d57a0e9983e631cb7c882ac16a50c364 100644 (file)
--- a/src/pyafm/main.bib
+++ b/src/pyafm/main.bib
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
   author = NI,
   title = {{LabVIEW}},
   url = {http://www.ni.com/labview/},
+  note = {A graphical programming language designed for developing
+    experiment control software.},
 }
 
 @misc{ national-instruments,
@@ -62,11 +64,16 @@
   month = mar,
   date = 14,
   url = {http://www.ni.com/white-paper/2931/en},
+  note = {Control libraries for data aquisition.  While these
+    libraries form the basis of \citetalias{labview}'s control stack,
+    you can also use them directly from other languages (like C).},
 }
 
 @misc{ cygwin,
   title = {Cygwin},
   url = {http://www.cygwin.com/},
+  note = {A POSIX emulation layer for Microsoft Windows.  With Cygwin,
+    Windows seems more like UNIX or Linux.},
 }
 
 @misc{ epics,
@@ -90,6 +97,14 @@
   paper_url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1267498.1267513},
   publisher = USENIX,
   address = {Berkeley, CA, USA},
+  note = {SWIG, the simplified wrapper and interface generator, makes
+    it easy to wrap C and C++ libraries for use from higher level
+    scripting languages like Python.  Often, you don't need much more
+    than the library's header file to generate a full wrapper.
+    However, the generated wrappers are usually very thin, which can
+    make them awkward to use.  If you want to write a thicker, more
+    idiomatic wrapper, it's probably easier to use a tool like
+    \citetalias{cython} instead of SWIG.},
 }
 
 @misc{ cython,