Ramblings from Ripley

While creating a personalised SQL Training course for one of my customers, I cam across the new SQL Operations Studio from Microsoft. SQL Operations Studio is a cross platform SQL tool that is currently in Preview, version 0.23.6 I believe.

So far I have used it on both Windows 10 and Apple OSX Sierra and it has proven to be reasonably stable for such a young product and has great potential. I’m…

Microsoft and Quantum Computing

Microsoft recently announced they are developing a new programming language designed for Quantum Computing.  This (still unnamed) language will come with full Visual Studio integration as well as a Quantum Computing Simulator and will be available before the end of 2017.

Microsoft is also going to release *two* versions of the Quantum Computing Simulator. One version will run locally, the other…

The Four Hour Work Week (4HWW)

I’ve long been a fan of Tim Ferriss and his incredible ‘Four Hour Work Week‘ (4HWW) and whilst re-reading it recently I came across a flowchart diagram that neatly captures his approach to ‘activities’.  The image was originally created by a reader Jed Wood.

I’ve recreated the flowchart and supplied it below as an image. I assume Tim and Jed will be ok with this, if not it can be easily removed 🙂

DataViewer Components for Xojo

Here’s a chance to get my Dataviewer Components for Xojo at a 20% Discount:

All Xojo Add-ons and Videos are 20% off through July 16th! Use coupon code SPASH and expand your toolbox now: http://bit.ly/2bAciyX #sale

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Magic Cipher Video: File and Folder Encryption

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Since the dawn of time I have been using one of the more traditional types of version numbering systems for all my software developments. Recently however I have ‘enhanced’ my methodology and now use something slightly different.

To the outside world not a lot will appear to have changed, the N.N.N methodology will still be used, albeit with a slightly different interpretation. Internally however…

Magic Cipher: Usage Scenarios and Examples

Example 1: One to One Private Communications

Bill and Ted are ready to start making plans for their next Excellent Adventure. Knowing that their email discussions could be intercepted and easily read, they use the Magic Cipher Shared Secret Generator with it’s Strength Meter to create a Shared Secret they can use together.

They type their discussions into Magic Cipher and email the contents…

Magic Cipher Video: Text / Email Encryption

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Magic Cipher: The Story [1/2]

In 2007 I’d just launched my first application for the Mac, macVCRand I was looking for inspiration for my next project. I had long recognised the need for a simple and easy to use encryption program and hadn’t been able to find one. I decided my goal should be to create one.  Not only would this ‘scratch an itch’ it would hopefully go on to become a successful product in its own right.  If I…

Syncing Your Email to Your CRM

A recent chat with a customer reminded me that there are still many companies out there running their own in-house CRM, or similar, and facing the very real problem that their email is received and stored separately to the rest of their customer information, which is accessible in their CRM.

A product of mine from ‘back in the day’, ContaxCRM, solved this problem with email sent and received…

Xojo Generic Listbox Export: Tab, CSV and JSON

The following piece of code is written in the Xojo language (highly recommended by the way) and is a method that takes two Parameters, a List Object and a Descriptive Type which is a String that can only be one of the following values:

“,” – Comma, Standard Comma Separated CSV

“;” – Semicolon, Alternative CSV

chr(9) – Tab Character, Tab Delimited

“JSON” – JSON Structure

      Looking for an App…

Book Review. An Everyday Entrepreneur by Paul Bassi

As I mentioned in an earlier post one of my goals this year was to read 12 business books in 2016. It is now March and I’ve only just finished the first. Not a good start.

January and February were really busy. I had a couple of small projects on, a larger development project and I’m also working on a new commercial product that I will be releasing over the coming months, as well as significant…

Software Cannot Grow Old Gracefully !

As the title says: ‘Software Cannot Grow Old Gracefully‘. It is with this in mind that I am no longer selling or further developing any of the following products:

ContaxCRM

macVCR

MonitorMyMac

R10BatchMail

SMSRelaySuite

Custom or bespoke versions as well as joint venture editionswill continue to be supported for the foreseeable future. I’ll be sad to see them go, macVCR was the first application…