The Technology Tribe
Paradigma Software just released Valentina DB 4.2 and Valentina Reports 4.2 - another solid release driven by customer feedback. Something that is being overlooked though is that Valentina for Cocoa developers now get the Valentina for iPhone Client library for free. (more…)
Oregon is a is great place to live, provided you can get over the unemployment, near terminal tax issues and distrust of government. It is also a state that generates significant revenue off of sin taxes - liquor and cigarettes. Let’s talk a real beer tax. (more…)
Jason Snell over at MacWorld makes an intesting point about how Apple doesn’t want you looking at specs for the new Apple iPhone 3 G S or any other iPhone - making it comparable to a computer makes it more likely you’ll ditch your MacBook. (more…)
You hear it mentioned in almost any episode of 24, but an excellent resource for up to date information on the Swine Flu outbreak is available at the Center for Disease Control. Check the guidance for professionals section for specific articles - scroll down to the bottom. Most of these articles do not require any knowledge of medicine to understand.
Check this Google Maps project for tracking outbreaks and suspected outbreaks in your region.
There have been a few suggestions on the local news that some information would become available next week about this outbreak in the state of Oregon - sorry Oregon, that’s just too long to wait! If by chance this strain has gotten into any school, its also likely to already have been brought home to the family. Step one is to send home anyone with flu-like symptoms and keep them home the full 7 days after the symptoms pass.
In a surprising act of generosity, Adobe is giving away free personal use versions of Flex 3 to unemployed developers.
As president of Paradigma Software with its columnar database technology Valentina, I would like to think that the announced acquisition of Sun By Oracle is about the database market and a response to innovation in the field of databases. Indirectly, I think it is, but it isn’t about the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun. More so, it is about Oracle’s big iron position in the computer industry and what it learned from the failed shopping trip by IBM. (more…)
Kotaku and Techcrunch have been making the most of a term in iPhone developer contracts that require the iPhone developer to reimburse Apple for their 30% margin on sales if a customer returns a product within 90 days. Many have said this is a term to ensure quality - its not. (more…)
Unhub is another program designed to unify your profiles. The Lynn Fredricks Unhub is clean and effective with my Twitter, Linked In, Facebook and blog all nicely bound together, but there are a few steps in setting up your Unhub that you should know about.
When you create your hub, you will be sent directly to the hub, without setting up log in credentials. To do that, all you need to do is try to add another page - then you can claim your hub. Be warned though - Unhub will set up a cookie so that every time you return to Unhub, you are shuttled directly to your own Unhub page, rather than to the site’s home page.
It isn’t until the fall, but if you are a fan of the horror writer H P Lovecraft you should know about the H P Lovecraft Film Festival that happens annually in Portland, Oregon. I’ve been talking with our project manager at Meshbox about getting something especially interesting prepared for 3D artists released in time for this event.
Over on Bob Keeney’s blog I offered three views of cross-platform support based on his observations regarding REAL Software’s REALbasic. (more…)