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The Valentina DB team has posted another video showing how to insert an EAN barcode into a Valentina report. Valentina Reports is available for every major development environment for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, including several RAD tools like Runrev and REALbasic.

Valentina DB  senior developer Ivan Samhain has been testing Valentina against NIH human genome data to see how well Valentina performs with complex databases and specifically to the advantage of Valentina’s vertical database model over traditional relational database models. His test ran against a smaller data set of 6 GB but it is interesting.

While customers come to Valentina DB from a huge spectrum of development backgrounds and tools (from Adobe Director to C++ to Cocoa Objective C), a large number of customers across the board who work with complex data – financial services and medical data – seem to take a shine to Valentina for producing vertical market applications or services.

Valentina Dev Log is reporting that V4RB.rbx allows integration with REALbasic for Cocoa. REALbasic is a popular cross-platform development tool (deploys for many platforms, though not as many as Runrev), but its also very significant because its about as close an experience to Visual Basic on the Mac as you can get.

After a long beta and golden master period, Franklin 3D for Runrev is now available. This puts a powerful, hardware accelerated 3D game engine into the hands of Windows and Mac OS X developers. (more…)

The Apple iPad is still some months away from shipping, but I am already sick of it. Those who love all things Apple – Mac users especially, Mac loving press certainly – have talked this device to death. I hate the talk, and even I can’t avoid talking about it! (more…)

Michael Widenius certainly has his concerns about the Oracle acquisition of Sun. Michael is the original developer of MySQL and worked on the project for more than 27 years. It is worth reading his posts about the importance of the GPL in MySQL licensing and even goes on to tie the fate of MySQL to the free nature of the Internet. What I find facinating is that his argument is that the open source project requires a strong corporate master invested in making it competitive with closed source databases. (more…)

The state of Oregon still has over 11% unemployment; not the highest rate any more. But that doesn’t really mean the state economy is looking up. (more…)

ACTA aka Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is getting a lot of press recently, especially from the likes of TechDirt and Broadband News. ACTA is the most recent lightning rod for those who are critical of the music and entertainment industry intellectual property concerns.  ACTA is a good thing for the very reasons that the anti-RIAA and anti-MPAA crowd completely overlook – that artists who are not distributed through these publishing venues are being ripped off every day and the DMCA falls short in providing any sort of protection. (more…)

So what is REALbasic support going to be like for Valentina in 2010? (more…)

When is no news a feature? When its Valentina DB and Windows 7. Our ongoing tests so far with Valentina DB and Windows 7 have revealed no incompatibilities so far. But that’s just us though – no matter what we do, Paradigma Software’s compliance can’t fix it if your development environment itself has a problem with Windows 7.

Well – there is one fix, and that is to change your development environment. The more you rely either on very portable, non-development specific SQL or utilize the cross-platform, cross-environment native Valentina API, the easier it is to move your front end to another development environment.