We have just launched Maple 11, a major upgrade to our flagship product, which had been in development for close to two years. With this launch, I am emerging from a pre-release period that has been as busy as always and it seems to be the right time to have a second go at starting a blog to share some of my thoughts on and around Maple.
My first attempt stalled about a year and a half ago, when the technology I was using wasn't able to cope with an avalanche of blog spam and I couldn't find the cycles to try to fix this or even to think about posts.
The release of Maple 11 also marks a new beginning for Maple, of course. A lot of effort has gone into this product and I think it shows. So, check it out. My personal favourite new features are a slideshow presentation view that can handle interactive mathematical content and a new plotting engine that allows you to annotate your graphs with a rich set of drawing tools. Our mathematical engine has seen significant enhancements. The DAE solver, for example, has had a major overhaul and can now give you very accurate solutions to some really large systems.
