AnIML Tools

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.

A minor release of the AnIML Tools open source project was release today (version 0.2.0).  This release contains some minor changes to be able to parse AnIML files using the 0.3 version of the core AnIML scheme.

The biggest update for this version is the installer.  A proper Microsoft msi installer is now used.  This new installer will place shortcuts on the user's desktop and startup menu.

An online help system was implemented for this release.  Hopefully there will be some helpful comments in this system in coming releases.

The AnIML Tools blog has been neglected in the past little while.  The problem with running open source projects (here and here) and a startup company at the same time is that the projects with a revenue stream always win out.

That said I've been busy working on the next version of AnIML Tools (0.2.0).

Pittcon 2008 has come and gone in a blink of the eye.  I gave a talk this year at the Workshop for the Analytical Markup Language (AnIML).

I think that we put on a good workshop which gave an overview of the upcoming AnIML standard and some demonstrations of how it can be used.

I'm going to be at the Pittcon conference this year March 4-7.  I will be giving a talk on the Tuesday on Open Source Tools for AnIML.  AnIML is a new ASTM standard, under development, that will change the way analytical data is stored.

The first release of the AnIML Project will be next week (March 3rd).

Jamie McQuay (Scimatic Software) will be giving a talk on the AnIML Tools project at this year's Pittcon Conference.