Random stuff that may be useful to some people…
LaTeX
University of Sussex LaTeX thesis template
mn.bst Bibliography style file (BST, Bibtex,
Latex) for MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society), modified to give “et al.” when there are more than eight authors.
hapalike_8max.bst Modified version of hapalike.bst (from here), changed to give (1) “et al.” when there are more then eight authors,
(2) sort by first author and then year, rather than all authors and then year, (3) added month to sorting: author, year, month, and (4) changed from “Smith and Jones” to “Smith & Jones”.
IDL
Miscellany of IDL routines Use at your own risk!
Python/IDL
pIDLy : IDL within Python Control and interact with IDL from Python.