2006 has definitely been a great year for us over here. Even without being launched yet, so much has happened and it is all materializing into reality which is a great thing.

We’ve had the plans and ideas to create SugarStats for literally a few years. I spent a while sitting on the idea and let it evolve in my thoughts until I finally decided to go after my goals and passions and get things started. That was about April 2006 so we’ve been in development for a good 9 months and have come quite a long way.

So soon within the next few weeks we’re hoping to get the private beta tester stage started and iterate/evolve SugarStats even more. We’re gonna try to kick off 2007 with a blast and hopefully provide something of value to the Diabetic community. Thanks to all those who have sent in feedback, their thoughts and suggestions. Its very much appreciated so keep it coming! info at sugarstats dot com

Stay tuned and take care.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to all. Take care of yourselves this holiday season and watch those sugars!

Following up from a previous story I saw a few weeks ago about some Canadian scientists who had cured Type 2 Diabetes in mice, we now have new updates. They have now posted news that they have cured both Type 1 and 2 in these mice.

“Diabetic mice became healthy virtually overnight after researchers injected a substance to counteract the effect of malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said Dr. Michael Salter, a pain expert at the Hospital for Sick Children and one of the scientists. “Mice with diabetes suddenly didn’t have diabetes any more.”

The researchers caution they have yet to confirm their findings in people, but say they expect results from human studies within a year or so. Any treatment that may emerge to help at least some patients would likely be years away from hitting the market.”

They say that they injected neuropeptide “substance P” into the mice and their diabetes “disappeared instantly” and stayed absent for as long as 4 months. Good to hear, but how long before a human solution is formulated?

Get the full story here

We’re working real hard to get things ready for our private beta test so we’re looking for some talented programmers to help.

Who we’re looking for should or should have experience in:

• 1-2 years Ruby / Ruby on Rails programming skills, best practices and good coding standards
• Rails E-commerce integration
• Have already built/deployed 1-2 med-large scale projects
• Rails/Ruby code refactoring and optimization
• Rails/Ruby Performance benchmarking and optimization
• Some knowledge of or can use: MySQL, SVN, Ubuntu/Linux
• Understand and know the benefits of test driven development and writing tests

Of course being diabetic or knowing someone who is that is close to you is optional ;-).

If you or someone you know would be interested in the small projects we’d have for you feel free to send an email to info [at] sugarstats [dot] com. Please send in your resume, specific knowledge in rails, samples of / links to your work, availability (in the coming 1-2 months) and your rates (hourly/daily/weekly).

Updates

Things have been going quite nicely and we’ve been working very hard to get this app live and ready for testing. We’ve also made affiliations and relationships with Diabetes health clinics in Hawaii and abroad whom are also very excited about SugarStats and are interested in testing it out.

Private Beta-Testing

Seeing as we’re very close to finishing, within the next 1-2m months we’ll start our private beta test program for those who would like to be one of the first to try the system. We won’t be opening this up to the public, but will be contacting close affiliates and sending an invitation to the people who have already signed up for the mailing list to be notified.

So if you would like to get an invitation make sure you’re signed up to the mailing list to get notified. If you aren’t yet, simple sign up.

Our current list has grown quite big, but for our private test we will be limiting it to only a few hundred or so.