Archive for March, 2010
Extortion Style IP Complaints a Bad Patch for DMCA Safe Harbor
DSL Reports and Techdirt both report about a new company that attempts to automate the process of sending out notices to reconcile IP theft (ie demand payments) to suspected film pirates. It is a sad tactic for dealing with the broken safe harbor provisions of DMCA. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes, the iPad Has its HyperCard
Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE: asks for a HyperCard like program for the iPad in his article The iPad needs its HyperCard. Dale, it exists and its called Runrev. Read the rest of this entry »
Now Software Gone But Not Forgotten
I was saddened to see an update from Adam Engst of TidBITs that Now Software is gone – John Wallace of PowerOn Software bids farewell on the company website. Id like to share some stories about a Now that was, and might have been. Read the rest of this entry »
My Own Private Viacom vs Google with Blogger
The dust is kicking up around Viacom vs Google – really Viacom vs YouTube, in regards to YouTube claiming safe harbor under the DMCA. For some, the argument is about preserving free speech on the Internet. For others, especially content creators or owners (some nastily labeled “Big Content” after Big Tobacco), it is about internet companies growing fat off of the exploitation of content that does not belong to them. I have an ongoing story to tell regarding Blogger. Read the rest of this entry »
More Cat Fights Please, Apple and Google
No Apple Lover can resist the growing feud between Apple and Google over the Android operating system. It is thankfully threatening to eclipse the pornographic media attention given to the launch of the Apple iPad. This cat fight though, made ugly by the sniping coming out of the Apple corner, best serves the consumer. Read the rest of this entry »
Valentina FindContains () Massive Indexed Search Speed Increased
Ruslan and Valentina user Kem Tekinay wanted FindContain ( ) to be a little faster. The Valentina developer team was able to speed this up by 10 times. Indexed search on table with 7 million rows has gone down from 46 sec to 4.6 sec.
You can get this using
- API – VField.FindContains()
- SQL – WHERE LOCATE( “what”, fld ) <> 0
It is hard to go more than a single .1 release without some aspect of Valentina DB being optimized for speed.
Doing Mailmerges with Valentina Studio Pro and any Valentina Database
With the release of Valentina 4, Paradigma Software also introduced Valentina Studio Pro and Valentina Reports. Valentina Studio Pro includes a huge list of improvements over the previous Valentina Studio Admin, but also incorporated a Report Designer for working with Valentina Reports. Now it is possible to set up a project in Valentina Studio Pro that generates a mail merge report based on data in any Valentina database. We’ve posted a video on how to perform mail merges with Valentina Studio Pro and Valentina Reports. Read the rest of this entry »
Adding a Barcode to a Report in Valentina Reports
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 vs National Institute of Health Genome Data
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.
Cocoa Support with REALbasic and Valentina DB
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.
