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We've submitted a proposal lately that  involves bringing a popular Mac application to Windows.  When doing research for this proposal, I've finally figured out the claim "Macs just work".  My answer to this claim is that:

 The Operating System is the framework.

By this statement I mean that the engineers at Apple have put a lot of thought into what support developers require.  They make sure that this support is bundled with the Operating System and a nice touch, it is all free.

I switched to a MacBook Pro about a year ago.  A dirty little secret is that I do all my word processing in Windows.  I needed to purchase Office 2007  for a client project a while back and its price tag made the decision for me.
On the Mac I wanted an open source solution for quickly editing documents.  I know that Pages is great and Office for Mac can be ok at times but I already paid for Office 2007.

A small update to the AnIML Tools project was released today. The functionality to navigate between AnIML nodes in the Colobus viewer was moved to the Main Menu and Toolbar.

I have finally found the time to put a bit of development effort into the AnIML Tools project again.  Today version 0.2.0 was release and hopefully will make the introduction to AnIML formatted files a little easier for new comers.
This release was many usability improvements.  A much improved installer in now implemented, an online help system has been built into the project.  There are also now direct links to the feature and bug reports on the project's sourceforge page.

I've been developing software for the past 10 years using Microsoft tools (VB, C++ with MFC and C#).  Up until now it's done the job, but now that we're developing our own products I've come to realize that it is time for a change.

I'm excited to finally be able to announce that Jim Graham will be joining Scimatic Software this fall as a partner.

One of the benefits of our new office on spadina.... Pho Hung lunches.

Went to the Radiohead concert at the Amphitheater up the road last night.  It was raining like hell and about 5 minutes before we left the house the rain stopped and I took this picture from our balcony.

BioBarCamp has come and gone... what a great time!

Special thanks goes out to Attila Csordas and John Cumbers who were the main instigators that made this event happen.