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Important updates about iNTERFACEWARE and our products

When are you going to replace your integration engine?

Below is a repost of my recent newsletter.  Please read and comment below. My team is off enjoying their summer vacations this week; leaving me responsible for our newsletter. Since I don’t have their knack for design or clever wordplay, I thought I’d just share an interesting trend I’ve been seeing over the past several […]

June 26, 2012 More

Is re-implementing 4 eGate interfaces within one day fast or slow?

I just got news that one of our integration partners managed to convert 4 eGate interfaces within 1 day. She did this: Without a product demonstration. Without any formal training other than our online documentation. Without calling our helpdesk once. Two of the interfaces were relatively simple, the other two were more complicated. While she […]

March 27, 2012 More

Book your Iguana 5 training today

My team and I just published a small but important update to the iNTERFACEWARE website:  The ability to book and pay for your training sessions online! I know, I know — it’s probably not the most exciting website update ever, but for the dozens and dozens of people who are signing up every month for […]

February 27, 2012 More

Translator Training in Toronto

…Try saying that three times fast! Or better yet:  join us for one of the in-depth Iguana 5 training sessions that we’ve started offering on-site in Toronto. It’s been a few weeks since we kicked off our inaugural session and I can tell you that the entire experience was a huge success. Training people is not […]

November 9, 2011 More

The Return of Internet Explorer

Yes, it’s true. With the latest release of Iguana, version 5.0.9, Internet Explorer 8 and 9 are now officially supported (again)! For those of you who read our blog and/or our wiki, you probably know that we have a bit of a love-hate relationship with IE around the office. Editor’s Note: Since this article was […]

October 28, 2011 More

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 […]

September 12, 2011 More

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 […]

August 1, 2011 More

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 […]

July 23, 2011 More

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 […]

July 19, 2011 More

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 […]

July 7, 2011 More