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Samples ELN has been mentioned in Scientific Computing and listed in the LIMS Software Directory with a nice review! We are busy at the moment working out some new exciting ideas that I will be blogging about soon!

We are pleased to announce that we have started working with the Nitz Lab Group at the University of Toronto.  Mark’s group will be using Samples as their first electronic notebook experience.

I've started a Twitter feed for us at Scimatic.  Jim and I will be using this account to announce new blog posts and general science/work related news.

If you have a Twitter account, please follow us at twitter.com/Scimatic

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'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.

BioBarCamp in Palo Alto next month is now officially full!  With 75 available slots any new sign ups will be going onto a waiting list.

Held at the Instituue for the Future, this camp looks to be shaping up to be an interesting event.  This BarCamp will be slanted towards towards Biologists (hence its name) but I think that we will still find a lot of common ground to discuss.

Some links for those looking for more information about the event:

Updating Debian Now that we have the TS7200 booting Debian linux from the compact flash we can install the development tools that we need.The first step is to update debian using the apt-get functionality:apt-get update

To boot from the compact flash card of the TS-7200 the following steps were executed:

Partition the compact flash card

Put the Flash card in the USB reader and insert it into a linux desktop PC.

Instructions as documented in the Linux for ARM on TS-72xx User's Guide)