Here's hoping that all our friends, family and customers in the US have a great Thanksgiving.

We'll be up here working hard on your science-related software.

There's been a lot of talk about Microsoft and startups in the Toronto scene recently. Leading me to wonder if Microsoft is starting to get startups.

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

Ever have two completely unrelated problems ... only to realise they are manifestations of exactly the same issue? Sometimes it feels like a win.

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.

... Version Control.

I might as well put in my two cents about version control, now that git has been getting all the blog press for the last, oh, forever. I'm always late to the party. For example, I just started working in ruby this year, and have already missed all the cool kids at RubyFringe.