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Day 2 of the core Revolution Live conference continues. (more…)

Revolution Live 2008 begins today. Revolution Live 2008 is a conference for developers that use Runtime Revolution, a cross platform development tool published in North America by co-sponsor Mirye Software.

Ill be updating throughout the day. (more…)

After reading a great article in Practical Web Design on FaceBook integration, we set up both the Runtime Revolution Facebook Group and Valentina Facebook Group on…Facebook. Tom McGrath of Lazy River Software asked me earlier today why you’d want to spread yourself so thin across multiple venues. There are plenty of social implications - its extremely hard to keep up with all of these social networking venues. They all want to own our identity and content - and they all (the ones that will survive) offer integration APIs, videos, music and more to get you to participate.

But this really isn’t about the technology - its about the socializing and appropriate venue. It seems like that simple truth may be eluding many, who probably have already forgotten what drew them to pre-Web 2.0 venues that very much were about where you hung out. The more you can get your face out there in the right venue, the more likely you will meet others of that also like that venue.

As lead investor and co-owner of Paradigma Software, the Sun Microsystems $1 billion acquisition of MySQL announced today was a big filler of my inbox - both from the conventional computer industry media and users of our Valentina Database System. That Oracle also acquired BEA Systems was barely covered but also of interest. I think the NetworkWorld quote gets to the heart of the why.

MySQL has become a formidable competitor to other relational database management systems from companies such as Oracle and IBM. The database itself is free for people to download, and MySQL makes money by offering subscription support packages.

Sun has, over the course of the last five years, found itself the guest without a chair at the enterprise dinner table. Solaris OS was the operating system of choice when companies were building their first internet infrastructures, and Sun found new relevance with the Java - only for Java to find cold comfort on the desktop but a welcome home on the server. Open sourcing Java and now, the acquisition of MySQL strengthens the relationship it would like to groom with the now respected open source developer community; the relationship that Oracle’s support (or hijacking as Ive heard it referred to) of Red Hat Linux was supposed to accomplish.

This will matter little to developers who use ultra-fast Valentina database system or cross-platform development environments like Revolution. (more…)

Valentina technology release 3.5 is now available through Paradigma Software and Mirye Software Publishing. There is a lot to like in this release - it includes a lot of new example projects for .net (C# and VB.net), Adobe Director and Runtime Revolution, to help get started with stored procedures and triggers. But the most interesting item is user defined properties for server databases. This represents a new breakthrough in database development – while object-relational and true object-oriented databases have existed for years, treating the database itself as a programmatic object is new, especially when talking about a database server.