Btw, I am still on Windows 7 as my main development platform and everything is smooth. I have installed CacheMan 7 (I have used this on XP for some time) and it really improves the responsiveness of Windows 7 on Parallels Desktop for Mac. So, it’s official, I am not going back to Windows Vista.

Hello everyone,

Today is a sad day for ArianeSoft. PPL 2.0 was supposed to be released but due to situations not under our control (manual not finished, some more polished needed to the product, help file not entirely finished, etc…) we have to delay the official release to a later date. We’ve tried everything we could, worked 16 hours a days for the past month to make sure it was ready for May 1st, but that was not enough, we need more time.

The new release date is unknown at this moment, since we want to make sure the product is to our expectations and comes fully loaded with nice documentation, samples, videos, etc…

We’d rather have a solid product, there is only one 1st impression.

We will keep you updated on the progress…

Today is very special day for us at ArianeSoft Inc. We have just received the book exclusively dedicated to the PPL language and its IDE. The book is sold by Addison-Wesley and published on Amazon.de

The book is made of 502 lovely crafted pages. Each page is a delight for the programmers eager ed to start developing applications and games on the PC or Windows Mobile platform (smart phones). It goes in great length explaining complex topics about PPL in a simple and visual manner. Some more obscure topics of the PPL language are also covered, like the PPL Assembler.

For the impatient, there is a nice chapter at the end of the book about PPL 2. Yes, a sneak peak of our beloved soon to be released PPL 2 product.

The author (Heinz Seyringer) did an extraordinary job and only the top programming books can touch his professionalism.

Get the book from here http://www.amazon.de/Spiele-Programmierung-f%C3%BCr-Handy-Plattformunabh%C3%A4ngig-programmieren/dp/3827326508/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239841184&sr=8-14

Even if you are not German it is a good time to tell us you like PPL and our company. Take it as a donation to the future of the PPL language. If enough are sold, we might see an English version, as of right now, two American publishing houses are very interested in the translation and marketing to the North America.

Little surprise on the www.arianesoft.ca web site.

What is it?

Even though we haven’t updated DataMite in a long time, we’ve enjoyed constant sales and gained happy customers all the time. But nothing is perfect and DataMite was not, so we are beta testing 1.31 as we write this post. We will have an official release in a couple days.

After looking around at many tools available to create an integrated update solution for PPL 2.0, I have decided to write my own. None could offer the flexibility I needed.

I needed a tool that could support multiple installed products, allow to verify serial numbers on the fly and provide the user with a fast update tool.

I came up with CleverUpdate, a tool that will be sold later by ArianeSoft Inc. It offers the ability scan for installed Product Version Files (.pvi) and check via HTTP (port 80) for Product Update Files (.upd). The UPD files contains all information required to download an update file and install it right away. It also contains a list of serial numbers (not the actual serial numbers but a special ID) allowing to check if the user as the right to download the update or not.

You can have as many PVI files, they can check for updates on multiple URL’s as well.

This will provide me with the ability to offer a Demo version of PPL 2.0 (features limited) and when someone purchase the full version, they will simply have to check for updates via the Help -> Check for Updates menu item. The full version will automatically be available for download when you enter the serial number for the product.

When a customer purchases a PPL component from our store, it will contain a PVI file that will allow for fast and easy updates when new versions comes out.

The product will come with CleverBuilder as well, which allows you to create UPD, PVI and KEY files for your products very easily.

Here is a screenshot of CleverUpdate. The data is dummy, don’t pay attention to it.

You can contact me on MSN at kornalius@hotmail.com too. I won’t have much time to chit chat but you might get me between two tasks.

I was able to borrow money from my family to pay the company’s debts. However I won’t be able to continue very long if I don’t find more money. I am expecting a contract very soon which will resolve the money issues for a couple more months. However the sad news is that PPL 2.0 will be put to rest for the duration of the contract, that is the price to pay to be a financially viable company.

Welcome to our new blog.

Here you will learn all about the new Pocket Programming Language version 2.0 and what will be going on in ArianeSoft’s world. PPL v2 is gearing up to be a very powerful tool, it comes with a completely redesigned IDE that supports full object-orientation programming in a very visual way, something you haven’t seen before. It comes with a full-blown object-oriented control library, a complete object-oriented SQLite database engine. You will be able to design games visually using a powerful object-oriented library, creating games has never been easier.

We plan on producing a few videos demonstrating PPL 2.0 features.

I will keep this blog updated very often, I can even post from my phone.

There will be important news coming later next week, stay tuned…