PSICAT News

Last week I was in Potsdam, Germany for a meeting with folks from ICDP, ESO, and CoreWall. We were discussing integrating our various tools (PSICAT, Corelyzer, and the Drilling Information System) to create a turnkey technology platform for future ICDP and ESO drilling expeditions. Each of the tools have been used successfully on multiple expeditions, but until now haven't interoperated with each other. The meeting went well and we adjourned with an integration plan.

So what does this mean for PSICAT? First off, if you're an existing user, you won't have to do anything different; PSICAT will continue to work exactly as it does today. It will just have some new, optional features for integrating with the DIS and Corelyzer. One positive side effect of this is that I will have some "official" time devoted to working on PSICAT. Things have been so busy in the last couple of months that PSICAT development has been on the back burner. PSICAT won't be my only project but it should get more attention than it is getting now. It also means that PSICAT will be getting used all over the world on new drilling projects, which (I hope) leads to a larger user community and a better overall product.

Exciting times! Keep an eye on the PSICAT site for more updates.

Bacheloring it up

Elizabeth went to Rochester today through Sunday. She's having her final wedding dress fitting and a bridal shower. That leaves me and the cat to fend for ourselves. Tonight I had the boys over to watch some college basketball and to try out the cream stout Will and I just kegged. Everyone agreed that it turned out well.

Tomorrow I really need to finish up some Grails work I've been doing and to get a few screencasts shot. Since Elizabeth is gone, I'll probably end up working Saturday to catch up on some PSICAT work that I've fallen behind on. Apologies to anyone who's waiting on me. ANDRILL is keeping me busy.

Tomorrow I'll have a technical post. I haven't decide what yet, but I'll figure something out.

Eclipse Europa

I'm back after a particularly useful meeting in Minneapolis earlier this week. I got back just in time to download my brand new copy of the Eclipse Europa release. My first impressions is that this is the best Eclipse release yet. I'm loving the ability to remove trailing whitespace and code cleanup automatically when I save a file. And as an RCP developer, I can't wait to migrate PSICAT to the new version to take advantage of all the updates.

So a big congrats and thank you to the Eclipse community for putting together such a great product. I'm off to hack on some code and really put Eclipse through the paces.