Heaven forbid we ever stop developing stuff! This is still some months away, but it is very much on the front burner at Steamboat. Some really tight new design and logic is going to be the keynote of this revision.

As usual, we've been collecting ideas and requests as they come up for inclusion in the next release. And as usual, most of the best ideas come from the cops and not from us.

Look for more interaction with outside data sources - scanning license information in for Name records, for instance. We're also continuing to push the new Name/Incident logic we introduced in the v8 rewrite. Under the hood, v9 features a ground-up rewrite of the program's relationship/ER logic to the new Anchor-Buoy standard, making the whole thing tougher than ever.

Interestingly, development this time is coinciding with a complete remodel/renovation of the Steamboat office - starting over from bare concrete walls - that has me particularly spending a good deal of time at the new Clifton Park library and the Borders store to get away from the noise of construction. In four weeks though, it's going to look pretty good around here!