Medsphere.Widgets still rockin!

OpenVista CIS

The team at Medsphere has been busy making huge strides in open source healthcare with the OpenVista CIS Beta ramping up at Century City Doctors Hospital, preparing for CIS's GA release, and beginning a few exciting projects for the future.

We also pushed out the 1.0 Beta release of CIS to the open source world with a new license -- the Affero GPL v3.0. We think this is pretty cool, as it drops the Medsphere Systems Public License (MSPL) in favor of a better GPL-compatible license that is more usable by the community, and also closes the Application Service Provider (ASP) loophole.

Medsphere.Widgets 0.2.1

But, that's not all we've been up to. Today, we're putting out a new release of the still-rocking-your-socks-off Medsphere.Widgets. The 0.2.1 release brings a few bug fixes that were discovered during our beta process.

For those who don't remember Medsphere.Widgets -- our LGPL v2.0 or greater licensed, cross-platform Gtk# widgets, here are the widgets:

CPaned

FBox

GridView

Graph

IconLayout

Run, don't walk, to download the latest release today!

Recent Revelations

I've had two very curious 'revelations' recently:
(I'm using this term because I'm actually quite taken aback by this new knowledge. Not quite in the biblical sense, but whatever.)

Fireflies

I visited the always affable and accomodating Aaron B in the Garden State this last week, and while crusing along in his sporty, rented, Korean-piece-of-shit, a smallish insect wafted into my open window at a stop sign. At first, I figured it was a strange sort of a fly, or perhaps a little, shrunken Rick Moranis, but all of a sudden, it started to glow.

And here I was -- 23 years of age with a degree and a car payment -- captivated by the sight of this little insect shining it's light in search of its own personal Kristen Bell. I was completely mesmerized by how this little guy did his little thing, that I started to almost think that his insect booty was somehow infused with magic fairy dust comprised of unicorn tears and butterfly kisses. Shortly after, my higher level reasoning kicked in (it takes a little bit to warm up), and all I could say is "biology is cool" between giggling uncontrollably and snorting like the uber-nerd that I am.

Ambling up Aaron's gravel alleyway in Highland Park in our 4-banger, the narrow corridor opened up to a field of these little buggers, all pulsing their glowsticks like some kind of miniature lightswitch rave. Unfortunately, by the time I realized I should take a photo, they had already packed up their DJ booth, and they never returned during my trip.

Smoothies

For those of you out there that don't know, I'm hooked on smoothies. -- specifically, California-style smoothies where real fruit is used instead of gobs and gobs of ice cream. And I've become especially dependent on them since I started the auspiciously named Abs Diet. So to save a bit of green, I've been making smoothies myself and using them for my 6th meal after Dinner and for weekend snacks.

Using the Scientific Method, I've perfected my smoothie recipe so that it includes loads of Whey Protein, dairy, fruit and berry goodness.

Really freaking simple, but very tasty. And 3 power foods too!

Anyway, the actual revelation wasn't the smoothie, but the fact that instead of using the pitcher that came with your blender (and having to wash it, and the glass that you drink it out of, constantly), the same base, blade and seal will screw right into a mason jar!

Now, you have one (or several, they're cheap!) container that you can blend in, drink out of and store in. How awesome is that. And they're dishwasher safe.

N.B.: I know this is such a non-event, but it's cool to me, so get over it