Well, tonight we experienced some DNS related downtime, but things are propagating and we should be up and going again shortly. For testing future areas of our site, we needed to make some changes that ended up not going as smoothly as we anticipated.
We’re working on a few informative posts that we’re going to start pushing out, and perhaps inbetween we’ll even show off some more teasers. But for now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
While I’m sorry to say I don’t have any teasers for you, I thought I’d introduce myself anyway: I’m Ryan Govostes, one of the other developers that Jon alluded to. My interests include cryptography, data mining, and artificial intelligence — I think you’ll find these topics pop up in the software I write.
When I’m not in the Labs, I am an undergraduate at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. I major in Computer Science and am involved in research in the Department of Cognitive Science. Occasionally I help with the student newspaper, The Poly.
I’m not very consistent in writing for my own blog, but I’ll try to keep you up to date on whatever is cooking in my corner of the Labs. I look forward to seeing you at my next posting, whenever that should be.
Ah, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. We relaunched the website, became a corporation (Alacatia Labs, Inc.), and have been doing some pretty cool stuff. Even though things have changed, we haven’t forgotten what brought you here.
I’d really love to tell you what we have up our sleeves, but not until we’re almost ready to ship. I will, however, tease you REALbasic devs with a neat hack that’ll never see the light of day.
It’s been three days since our quiet public launch, and I felt that now is as good a time as any to give a little teaser as to what to expect from us.
First, let me introduce myself. I’m Jonathan Johnson, the same Jonathan Johnson from NilObject.com and formerly from REAL Software. Along with my three co-conspirators, I founded this company and have been working hard in my spare hours to get things going.
Before the re-release of the MySQL plugin, we were originally planning on launching with a few other products for REALbasic developers. However, we saw a need and had a website ready. So we kicked into gear and released it on the same day REALbasic 2007 Release 4 was released.
We’re really excited about our product lineup that we’ll be unveiling over the next few months. As I mentioned above, we have some great stuff that’s nearing release for REALbasic. Additionally, we’re working on two consumer level products to release when Leopard breaks out of its cage, if all goes well.
But since we can’t really give too many previews until we’re a little further along, I will instead give you an opportunity to meet the rest of the developers. Over the next week, you can expect each of us to post a short entry introducing themselves. Many of you will know their names already. Each of us will have our own dedicated section of the website that we will be able to freely post about anything that we’re working on — the sort of posts that made Alacatia Labs known in the first place.
Thank you for reading, and I hope that these next few months are as exciting for you as they will be for us!
Update: Developers are now peeking out from the shadows on the Blogs page.
To coincide with today’s release of REALbasic 2007 Release 4, we are pleased to announce that we are now maintaining the MySQL database connectivity plugin. Because this plugin is no longer being offered by REAL Software, our talented development team, with over two decades of cumulative REALbasic experience, have taken on the responsibility of giving REALbasic users access to both MySQL Community Edition and MySQL Enterprise Edition servers.
We look forward to sustaining the plugin’s robustness and adding many new features. You’re invited to join our Google group that we’ve set up to offer support and discussion about the future of this product.
As always, the plug-in is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2, and is free to use, share and modify. More information can be found at: http://www.alacatialabs.com/products/realbasic-mysql-plugin/.
We appreciate your feedback and look forward to serving the REALbasic community with this and other products.
After several months of creative endeavors, we looked over our accomplishments, discoveries, and undeveloped ideas. “This one is great,” we said of some ideas. Others were labeled ‘Cool, but useless.’ In the end, we realized that we had more than enough great ideas that we should share with everyone. That day, we formed Alacatia Labs, Inc.
We are a unique company that will be focusing on experimenting with new and unexplored technologies, and along the way, releasing the unique products we come up with in our experiments.
Over the next month, we’re going to start unveiling the fruits of our labor. While not all of our lab results will be revolutionary, we hope they will be the best that’s available. After all, we are motivated primarily by our own desire for something better, and we would not settle for anything less than excellence.
So if you haven’t already, we encourage you to subscribe to our news feed or our full feed. We hope you stick around to see what exciting experiments we are working on.