A few weeks ago, I took some time to do “science outreach” with my son’s Grade 3 class. Nothing fancy — the teacher had asked for volunteers for their “Scientist in the Schools” program. I had been the parent volunteer before, for units on recycling and insects, but this one was right up my alley because it [...]
A number of our projects use the SQLite database as a backend store. While developing, it’s critical to be able to see what’s in the database. I’ve used two GUI browsers for SQLite on Windows SQLite Database Browser 2.0, which is a QT based cross platform GUI that was last updated in 2009, SQLite Manager, [...]
Last week, Alex at Mekentosj announced that they had been acquired by Springer Science + Business Media.
This is great news for Alex and his team, and really sets them up well for the future. The Mek team is a very agile team that gets a lot done, but as that post says, there are only so many hours per day. It looks like they will get to expand their resources on the Papers application in the future.
One of the first blog posts I wrote for Scimatic, back 3 1/2 years ago, was about the LHC and the Higgs Boson. At the time, I had some doubts about whether or not it was a good idea to put all our physics eggs in one giant CERN basket, and I think those concerns are still justified.
However, I didn’t think at the time it would only take 3 and 1/2 years for the LHC experiments to announce that they’d found the Higgs.
In the latest release of Samples comes some big changes. We have added some great new features and we have decided to remove some also… In the planning for Samples 1.3 we had to make a decision on what path to take for Samples future. We already had a strong feature set for capturing experimental details (electronic lab notebook (ELN)). We have also been building up a new set of functionality for sample tracking through our new partnership with Ziath.
We released the first Papers for Windows pre-release on February 14th, and I’ve got to say, it’s been an exciting couple of days! We’ve learned a number of things from the release:
We’ve written a number of posts that talk about a client project that we’ve been working on for a while (NetSparkle, Xml Serialization, NHibernate, Date Parsing)
Finally we can talk about what we’ve been working on, and we’re really excited.
We’re working on a client project where one of the requirements was a Sparkle-style updating mechanism. For those of you who are Mac folks, you’ll be familiar with the Sparkle “A new version of YOUR FAVOURITE APP is available!” window, with the options to skip, remind me later, or install the update.
Fortunately, there are at least two open-source versions of Sparkle for .NET programmers:
Our client Capilix has won an Aquatech Innovation Award this year in the category of “Process Control & Automation”. That’s great recognition for the hard work the folks at Capilix have put into their product line.