Iguana 5.0.7 released
Iguana 5.0.7 has now been released. It’s packing a whole suite of useful functionality. It really could be called Iguana 5.1 at this stage. The Translator has come a long way since we first released it. I am looking forward to see what our customers will want to do with DICOM now that we have […]
Limits to Interoperability
One of my staff had an interesting experience many years ago. He had an internship at a life insurance company. The company maintained a huge array of virtualized AS400 machines that were running a number of legacy COBOL applications which described life insurance policies. The company needed to maintain all these applications for the life […]
Out of this world code navigation coming in Iguana 5.0.7
I gave the latest snapshot of Iguana a spin today to get a peek at some of the new features that will be part of 5.0.7 release. I put some screen shots into the wiki under the What’s New section. The code navigation is exciting. It goes well beyond what traditional IDEs like Visual Studio […]
Looking for two software developers
We’re looking to fill two additional development positions in Toronto, Canada to work on our Iguana engine. To give you a bit of a taste for the technology involved please take a few minutes to view these short videos of the Iguana translator: http://www.interfaceware.com/iguana.html http://www.interfaceware.com/iguana_translator.html As you can see it’s a very interesting application of […]
The best tooling for standards development? A word processor.
HL7 maintains a number of tools for maintaining the HL7 Version 3.0 RIM. One of the tools is 1999 version of Rational Rose with an associated Microsoft Access database. There are Eclipse plugins etc. I lose track of them all to tell the truth. One of the big problems with the RIM is that it […]
How do you make a Pink Daiquiri?
Dear Agony Aunt, My husband is having an affair with his secretary. He brings her home and they hang out in our bedroom, while he wants me to make them pink daiquiris in the kitchen. My problem is – how do I make a pink daiquiri? For anyone that knows me, it is a favorite […]
Why Facebook, Google and 37Signals do better technology than Healthcare IT
Been meaning to blog a post on this for ages. It’s pretty obviously to any entrepreneur who runs a medical software company why technology in health care tends to lag behind what other industries have. The best technology to be found is in the consumer sector – consumers buy products they themselves want to use. […]
When is supporting the XML encoding of HL7 2.X a good idea?
This question came up on the HL7 mailing lists recently so I thought I would give a business perspective on it. I would say that less than 0.5% of the market implements the XML encoding of HL7 2.X in XML. I gave some of my perspective already with my article on why a JSON encoding […]
SOAP is an Oxymoron, may it REST in peace
SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. But there is nothing simple about it. If you don’t believe me, then go read the specification. It’s not surprising the thing got so out of hand – just look at the list of contributors. They all had to ‘add value’ in some way. Oh dear. Thank goodness it’s dying. […]
JSON – A natural standard
What is JSON? It stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is rapidly becoming the standard for transmitting data between applications. It is like XML but a lot less heavy weight. It is much easier to write a JSON parser than an XML parser. There are huge number of JSON parsers implemented in every language you can think […]
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