While everyone is talking about the gold on that Apple trophy thing for potus.foregroundStyle(.orange), I can't get over that fact it is glass -- or maybe liquid glass? In that case it's good until the next beta where it will be impossible to see.

LUCAP_ERP11 The Hybrid Template with Predicates We're building an ERP from scratch and are currently working on three templates to do all the work. We've completed the form and the reporting view. Invoices, bills of materials, and other modules require a template that has three components: a form at the top called a *header*, a report in the middle known as the *body*, which contains details, and a form at the bottom called a *footer*. This time, we'll combine the two templates we have to create the third. Before we do, there's one improvement we'll make to the report: Adding predicates.

LUCAP_ERP11 The Hybrid Template with Predicates

We're building an ERP from scratch and are currently working on three templates to do all the work. We've completed the form and the reporting view. Invoices, bills of materials, and other modules require a template that has three components: a form…

LucaERP 10: ForEach and Binding Variables

I’m building an ERP system from scratch to explain all the issues involved in making an ERP. Unfortunately, I’m late again on an installment of Luca ERP due to a bug in the code I was supposed to write. The bug is due to a Swift UI feature: my improper use…

Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.

The new iOS26 Icon template

Heres a .png version of the Apple Icon template for those of you withouth sketch or Adobe Illustrator. Drop it in as a layer in ahtever applcation you use. Download

While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.

Recall is not a good thing For those not following the tech news, the nightmare that is Microsoft Recall is back. If not careful, Recall can become a huge security risk for SAP Business One Users. In Spring 2024, Microsoft introduced a feature coming later that year to Microsoft Windows 11: Recall. Recall is effectively a personal search engine of the user's activity run by AI.

Recall is not a good thing

For those not following the tech news, the nightmare that is Microsoft Recall is back. If not careful, Recall can become a huge security risk for SAP Business One Users. In Spring 2024, Microsoft introduced a feature coming later that year to Microsoft Windows 11:…

The best AI Apple could introduce at WWDC25 is XCode error messages that make sense and tell you what really went wrong. I forgot a parameter on a View

The Quest for Fixed Costs

It's April Fool's Day, so something silly is called for. What about a parody of a Monty Python Parody about SAP Business One users? What about an absurd story about a missing feature in SAP B1 and the adventure of implementing it? Only Monty Python and the Holy Grail…

That’s the new mousefinder feature

The interest in using Playground more like Xcode isnt there, based on viewership of my tutorial videos of it. Apple confused a mobile tool for developers and a toy for kids, and that hurt both audiences. I personally use it as my prototyping device as it is easier to carry around than my mac.

How relevant Small Gods has become is making it hard to finsh my re-reading of it. **The turtle moves!**

The first few chpters will mess you up. Wihtout too much spoliers a character becomes Sir Terry's own eulogy. I couldn't finish it after that.

Flawed instruments admit their mistakes and change for the better. There's the rest of the story [II Sam 12]. The prophet Nathan brutally called King David on it to his face in public. Then David repented but still had more than a few punishments from God in the aftermath.

LucaP ERP part 3: The General Journal

*Note:As I've gained a few followers and subscriptions in the last few weeks, I want to remind everyone that I alternate between LucaP and BizOneness weekly. In LucaP, we're building an ERP system starting at the core: the General Ledger. This week, we'll tie…

Introducing HANA While I had planned something about the General Ledger for this newsletter, circumstances changed, so I'll do something entirely different. As many of you know, I'm no longer with Scientific Device Laboratory. If you'd like to know more about that situation, I have described it in detail here, but the very short version is that I lost the ability to access SAP B1 for this newsletter for the last nine months.

Introducing HANA

While I had planned something about the General Ledger for this newsletter, circumstances changed, so I'll do something entirely different. As many of you know, I'm no longer with Scientific Device Laboratory. If you'd like to know more about that situation, I have described it in…

Bizoneness: Introducing HANA #Bizoneness While I had planned something about the General Ledger for this newsletter, circumstances changed, so I'll do something entirely different. As many of you know, I'm no longer with Scientif...

With my new HANA implementation we're beginning a series to explain HANA: What it is, how to use it for Queries and what I'll be doing in this newsletter with it. #HANA #SAP #SQL #SAPB1 #SAPBusinessOne #Bizoneness www.linkedin.com/pulse/bizone...

Sometimes I get asked about tips for the Swift Student Challenge. So I wrote about my experiences, as well as some tips I might have.

I can only encourage everyone who can to participate! 🤩

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LucaP02 The Chart of Accounts

In the ERP application, we have established credits and debits on a ledger with the five major accounts. However, we don't know what those credits and debits do. We want the ledger to tell the story of how we moved our money around. That's where the chart of Accounts…

LucaP ERP Part 1: The Basic Equation

How do you start to understand the workings of an ERP system? By making one. In this biweekly column, we’ll make an ERP system and start at the core of it all: accounting. This lesson will be longer than subsequent lessons, as I will have to do some background…

I don't WANT "Artificial Intelligent Artists"

I want "Naturally STUPID Artists" such as myself

The Bizoneness Migration Guide #Bizoneness Data migration is taking data from one source and merging it into another source. If you're very lucky, it will be a seamless change.

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My latest on navigating the hazards of migrations between large systems, like ERP's

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To prove to myself I am good at this. Besides, I like looking at good looking women. It helps if a parody is involved

Steven Lipton on LinkedIn: SOme people have sales, I give things away for a limited time. Check out… SOme people have sales, I give things away for a limited time. Check out my Swift Data course on LinkedIn Learning! I have made it free for you with the link…

SOme people have sales to get into the black, I'm giving things away. If you have a LinkedIn account, and want to learn SwiftData, I made my SwiftData course free for a limited time.

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New article up on LinkedIn from me about art, AI, and a parallel with a popular 1980's artist (my contain earworm) www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-art...