Jamie McQuay's blog

I just discovered the best feature ever...

When using Eclipse with Subclipse you have the option to role back code for every save that you've made locally.

This might not sound like much but I've been burnt several time in visual studio where I think I'm deleting the correct file and click OK to the "This file will be permanently destroyed" message.

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 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.