More importantly Oracle cannot patent API usage which is great for anyone (myself included) that develops software.

for once the crowd makes the ‘right’ decision. This will get appealed for sure but…

//GH

(Ack: saw this from Daring-Fireball blog today), and they are 100% right…

This is one of the slickest websites I have ever seen…. (use a modern browser (+) (scroll-down using mouse) for the full effect)…

http://eephusleague.com/magazine/

Enjoy.

//GH

So for the short term put the current version of Catalyst out there as Open Source. Then create a version that does flex (+) HTML5 when it stabilizes elevating yourselves as a company in the process. My 2cents…

Learning curve is a little strange but I am starting to ‘get it’. Perfectly suitable for the simple diags I am creating as part of a larger US Patent process for the cloud computing company I am associated with (ReachIPS.com).

I might post some tutorials re: Inkscape if I discover anything extra interesting…

//GH

Check it out at:

Click to investigate, The Honey Jar By Dr. Lateefah Wielenga

Knowing her, I am certain that it is thoughtful and insightful.

Best of luck, Lateefah ! //GH

See “https://twitter.com/#!/merlinprotocol” for the official announcement from one of my BFF’s Michael Mendrygal, the Author of the series.

Enjoy //GregH

(Talk about giving Apple an opening to steal customers away).

Don’t these guys realize that companies have NO Budgets for these things at all — (x) times the number of folks using their products in-house!

(Watch their stock tank even more over the next 6 months as people turn away from them to other products or just refuse to upgrade.)

There html-5 products don’t even work yet.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. //GH

Another one of life’s mysterys! //gh

Saw some great things at the show and also can’t believe how stupidly some of these companies selling into this physician community are (not)run…

Mark my words: (the project I am a part of) is going to take this segment of the market over in about 1 years time…

@ -> http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2011/11/11/clarifications-on-flash-player-for-mobile-browsers-the-flash-platform-and-the-future-of-flash/

Its a little hard to believe all of this… I will believe this if/when a ‘self-installing’ (coming soon) version of Adobe AIR with Stage 3d accelerations WORKS on my HTC Evo View 4g tablet… (or a XOOM / Sony Tablet or anything else). I *need* this to work consistently across the board on most tablets that are for sale now else the whole thing is a boondoggle…

Its been promised and promised — hopefully this will seen daylight in 2011.

//GH

(per, CNN/CBS -> http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/05/us/obit-andy-rooney/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn )

More: Youtube video -> Andy Rooney on Bill Gates / Windows Computers

This just stinks…

(Boy getting these sites ‘tablet / iPhone friendly can be quite the chore indeed. But after a bunch of manual tweaking I think I have gotten it straight)

Showing my project to VCs and business investors at this time. ( if you know anyone…. …drop me a line ;-) )

Thx. //GH

FINALLY ! !! !!!

I am up to my eyeballs trying to get a very complex android programming effort prototype working to present to some VC folks… Trying to get the prototype and the business plan all worked out by weeks end. Cheers //GregH

PS: Exciting news on the TheMerlinProtocol.com front… :-) Stay tuned…

(Daphne is a friend, a fantastic creative person and a *very* talented design landscape architect indeed. Check the site out!) Its made to be iPhone, Android and Standard WEB friendly.

TheMerlinProtocol.com

Cheers and Thanks. //GregH

Well to answer the “where’s Greg question”, I have been very been busy as a little beaver as I have my nose in an ‘Android’ development book for a major project I am working on. I should hire someone to do this part of the project however by the time I tell someone else what I want — I will have the thing done myself, so…

Still replying to emails so write me to stay in the loop. //GH

You may have heard, the Adobe folks have let their CS5.5 development suite out of the barn and oh my; this is a game changer.

The combination of Catalyst (for the Art dept) coupled with the new mobile Flex/Flash frameworks, coupled with ZEnd on the back grabbing the data from the enterprise end is a winner. No wonder Apple is doing everything to hold this tidal wave back.

So with this combo you can develop the UI in engineering or the Art dept, code the back end to connect to any data source, conform the data via the ZEnd framework and deliver the outputs to Desktops, web browsers, any smartphone and with some finagling Apple iPhones and iPads too.

The only thing Adobe Inc. needs to do here is lower the price (big time) and flood the market with these suites. if they do this they will drive development into the next decade.

My order is in already!

Working on a multi-month Data Center relocation project for a major east coast hospital corporation.

Still available via email, if you need to stay in touch.

Oh boy, I have lots to talk about. Just no time at present. Stay Tuned.

Cheers //GregH

See (video) at link http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/ (silverlight plugin required to view)

I would bet money that the next step (from someone, perhaps adobe) is to select the pano image points to create a 3d ‘model’ from the constructed static image…

Great Stuff indeed. //GH

Check it out its great stuff.

TheMerlinProtocol.com

Thx. //GH

This is the start of the not invented here effort, perhaps related to the forthcoming Apple ‘Mac’ software store thats going live in the OSX Lion release.

Not a good trend for terrific small software makers (such as BeeDocs timeline, maker of the terrific Mac program ‘Timeline 3d’. Best OSX software for the money on planet earth)

Anyone else spot a pattern here..? //GH

No Joy! “Where oh where have all the Android Tablets gone”…?!

I am ready to buy (for development purposes)

None for sale yet?

No wonder iPad is cleaning everybody clock here…

//GH

http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/09/technology/apple_developer_guidelines/index.htm

Good ! Its about time. Their attitude towards (app) developers was dumb, even for them.

His statement “…the Android tablet space will soon be a hotbed of experimentation and innovation…” is spot on.

Awaiting the arrival of the Toshiba tablet with Froyo hopefully they will make their end-of-2010 schedule. //GH

As someone who is named on a US Patent and has invented a number of products over the years; Woz’s final comment I cannot agree with more,

“To do something first — it’s so hard to do something first, and once you’ve done it, everybody says, oh, this is possible, now it seems so easy, it seems trivial,” he says. “No it wasn’t, at first. Those patents should be respected.”

I say this is Spot on !

(Heres a link to the Article published Sept 1)

(Read Woz Article)

I am starting to wonder if all businesses should start to change out old Java model for other more advanced technologies to keep from having to pay patent royalties to the victor of this battle of the titans? At the end of the day you will have to pay somebody or switch.

Java is bloated and unwieldy heavy weight technology anyway and certaintly does not scale into the mobile device space well. There are other ways to get out of this trap while using modern cloud-computing coupled with Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) which will deliver a better resultant AND not expose you to patent lawsuits/fees, going forward.

Contact me as I can help you pursue this course of action,, if your company is/may be exposed. //GH

To test it out I installed AndroidLive-x86 OS onto my Windows7 laptop under a VirtualBox virtualized enviroment.

Took about 1/2 a day to set this up and get the kinks out.

Shoot me an email if you want pointers on how to do this…

(I am waiting for a *real* Android tablet to come to market in USA. Doesn’t seem like they are quire ready for market presently.)

Cheers //GregH

Find it at URL http://honestcode.com/padedit/

I installed it and it works as advertised (essentially its a password protected way to edit files from your webserver).

Obviously, could cause a lot of damage in the wrong hands but handy when out and about and you need to read your server logs remotely.

I am posting this here just in case this mildly tricky solution might be of interest to others.

basically using Virtual Box virtulization / your favorite Microsoft Win32 release and some VBManage Trickery you *can* get an MSAccess data instance through ASP out to the outside world (although I would think that a better solution in the long run might be to convert to MYSQL and use apache, but thats not what they asked)

Anyway, following is a cut-paste of the answer to this question from “Linux.com’

———-

Hi to the group. I think I have a solution for David, in a roundabout way.

Here is a solution that will work (but it may take a day to setup)

a) on your Linux box install VirtualBox (formerly from Sun now from Oracle). Latest release is rock solid (at least on Ubuntu 10.04 that is)

b) Inside of VirtualBox install the Windoze version you have at hand and require.

c) Install MSAccess & any other items inside of your windows instance that you require.

d) Get MSAccess setup properly as you desire, presume you are using ASP inside of your win32 to push your db data out to a browser (if this is what you are trying to accomplish?!) Get this working inside your windows instance, first before you move on.

e) Reroute the VirtualBox ports for web access from inside your VirtualBox virtual machine out to your hosting Linux instance. (think its called VBoxManage command if I recall) For instance VirtualBox (win32) port 80 -> your redirect to be seen from outside (Linux) say port 1234

f) debug from your linux instance using port 1234.

g) if you want the outside world to ‘see the whole linux universe including the win32 VM (with MSAccess on it), you may? need to do some further port redirecting at the linux layer.

Obviously this is a whole lotta trouble, so only you can decide if this is worth it to you.

Cheers from Huntington Beach CA //GHudd

More: Here is info re: port forwarding in Virtualbox…

Found at this blog: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/12/17/configure-port-forwarding-to-a-virtualbox-guest-os/

…cut-paste…

Alzaf says:
December 15, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I have Ubuntu 8.04 as both host and guest. The only way I could get ssh working is installing openssh-server on both guest and host.

I also managed to get an apache web server working on guest and could communicate with host.

To get this working enter the following commands:

VBoxManage setextradata “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/apache/HostPort” 8080
VBoxManage setextradata “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/apache/GuestPort” 80
VBoxManage setextradata “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/apache/Protocol” TCP

Once the apache server is setup on guest, enter the following commands to open ports on iptables

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –dport 80 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp –dport 80 -j ACCEPT

To view the web server on host, enter the following command:

firefox “http://localhost:8080″

It’s *very snappy* and plays the complex flash site that I authored ‘The Merlin Protocol’ TheMerlinProtocol.com website perfectly

It is noticeably faster (about 3x faster) than it was before.

No wonder Steve Jobs wont allow it on the iPad (hey, perhaps some hacker will get it ported to a jail-broken iPad)

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We have setup this business entity, in such a way as to get you up and running in very short order — and we believe, for a very reasonable cost considering all of our experience we bring to the table.

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iPad Wi-Fi Fix on the way according to the Register UK

(all I can say its about time!)  //GH

Here is a unique picture of the same shuttle taking off over DisneyWorld…

Spectacular indeed.

I wish I could write about what I am finding out (obviously I cannot until Apple lifts their (annoying) N.D.A. for this device…)

Lets just say that video playback is still a little flakey, so far!  :-0

Update: Video is firming up…  there are still other issues with the simulator to work out (perhaps when the device shows up things will smooth out a bit better)…

(Should be visible in the lower left hand corner of this site)

A great aerial view of the Huntington Beach pier and downtown area is show,

Really amazing what little code it takes to get this snippet up and running with fully functional zooming and rotation features, onto a site.

(comments section)

“iPad:  Should Apple Bulls be iGlad or iMad?”

Hi as a technology professional (& a card-carrying iPhone developer) I have a differing take on the iPad than some of the other folks commenting so far.

Obviously I hope & believe that the iPad will have enough success(es) for me to make money supplying custom programs for the device and intend to buy one/more on day 1 of the launch.

I believe lots of businesses will (and should) experiment with iPads (& the upcoming iPad ‘like’ devices from Google / Acer / Android & such) in their businesses as productivity tools (while out on the on the shop floor type of thing).

For the consumer side I only see only one way this device can add to Apple bottom line, substantially — if and only iff Apple wedges themselves into the space between colleges and college students as a mechanism to sell ‘semester sets’ of textbooks to students.   At the moment the Kindle cannot fill this space.
Apple has the ‘Online store’ at the ready for distribution.  Apple  has the connections into the educational institutions already;  and of most importance, Apple has a device NOW that can display COLOR charts and graphs that are essential for all medical/engineering/math and biology textbooks (these are the highest profit books too!).

If they can accomplish this then the iPad will be able to make monies in its current form in the short term.

I think the biggest flaw in Apples announcement was that it will not support ‘Flash’ out of the gate (though personally I wish they would patch up their differences here), but that it will not support Adobes AIR runtime, which is a flash player bundled up with a display toolset and wrapped inside a Security model.

I am convinced that this technology is ripe for use throughout the enterprise, right now.  If Apple wants to sell lots of iPads to business — they need to support AIR not Flash, and if they roll over and do this then they *will* sell lots and lots of iPads.

Obviously these opinions are mine and mine alone.   Cheers to all  //GregH

I may be dead wrong here, but I dont think so.  Lets see if this point of view goes anywhere with the business types who read TheStreet (myself included, of course).

Check it out;  and if you notice any problems or issues, please let me know.

Many Thanks //GregH

Here is my tweet on the subject…

Tweet:  Just finished a seminar at Pepperdine U. Topic: RIAs (+) Newest Smartphones will == many new business opportunities become possible in 2010

More on this tomorrow when my brain clears (I am mentally drained, and am hitting the rack early tonight)