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Paradigma Software shipped Valentina 4.7, including updates to the core columnar database, Valentina Reports and server specific improvements. There were a few really annoying issues put to rest with this release, and more improvements to SQL Explain functions. For Mac OS X developers though, this also brought 64 bit versions of Valentina for Cocoa, Valentina C++ for Mac OS X and Valentina PHP (Client and Standalone) on Mac OS X. Not to be ignored, Valentina PHP Client is also available in a 64  bit version for Linux.

At its core, Valentina DB is a columnar database, but you can treat it much like a traditional relational database.  With its columnar roots, you’ll find your database operations, especially complex queries against databases with records numbering hundreds of thousands or more, far faster than a relational database – with some operations, it may be only twice as fast. With others, its hundreds or thousands of times faster. This is especially meaningful if you are pulling large data sets for analysis with your custom applications. Valentina DB is a long time favorite with financial service application providers.

Valentina DB 4.6 was released yesterday, with some very impressive speed improvements both in index searches and also something as simple as opening a database file. There are also other improvements, like being able to automatically look up functions, store comments and interactively receive log information through an integrated console in Valentina Studio. But what brings it all back to speed is that it enables applications built around Valentina DB, and Valentina Reports, to vastly improve performance, and therefore value. Speed can be your next upgrade. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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.

Mirye Software has released Runtime Revolution 3, the cross-platform, multimedia and application development tool. There are many things to like about Runtime Revolution – its very easy to learn, and it lets you create multimedia solutions just as well as standard interface applications. But that’s not the best feature.

The best feature is that you can create your application on one OS and deploy to multiple operating systems. Build in Mac OS X for example, and you can compile for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux – and the applications all look native on all platforms and don’t have that sluggish feel of Java applications.

Runtime Revolution 3 adds several new features, including a new script editor, better online help, a new start center and more. Read the rest of this entry »