Current Notes 6

Lots of updates today…

Software

• QuickLicense 2.1 – An update to this licensing tool
• QuickHelp 3.0 – Excel Software has been busy with updates
• GraffittiButton 3.0.5 – A minor bugfix update; apparently their sales have dwindled significantly, which is a shame.
• OpenBase Unlimited for REALbasic – Did you know this database can be used (and deployed) for free by REALbasic users? Neither did I.

Information

• REALbasic Developer Magazine – The September/October 2007 issue is now available
• Red Sox are World Champions! – In case you hadn’t heard

Community

• What’s an API designer to do? – Thoughts from Aaron Ballman
• Speculation – Norman Palardy speculates about REAlbasic
• Is REALbasic the Rodney Dangerfield of Software? – Musing by Bob Keeney

Current Notes 5

Busy, busy, busy.

Information

• Mac Control Sizes – Some tips from Alacatia Labs

Community

• REAL World 2008 Speaker Contest – Get a free pass along with room and board to REAL World

Current Notes 4

Another strangely warm day here in Maine.

Software

• Visustin Flow Chart Generator – v4 now reads REALbasic code
• MesaSQLite – A SQLite database editor written in REALbasic
• RBApp 2.1 – Update to the reusable classes from Excel software.

Information

• Items of RegistryItem interest – More useful information from Aaron Ballman
• Some insight about REALbasic toolbars – From Thom McGrath

REALbasic Application Showcase

It was brought up on the REAL Software Forums, that the redesign of the REAL Software web site eliminated the Application Showcase.  The showcase was a place for people to show off their REALbasic applications.  You could upload a small picture of your application with a brief writeup about it.

This seems like it might be a good use of Flickr.  After all, Flickr is ideal for managing pictures and it also lets you describe them.  We can all make sure to tag them with REALbasicShowcase so that they’ll be easy to find.  There are plenty of Flickr plugins for WordPress, so I should be able to then show them quite easily here at RBDevZone as well.

What do you think?

Current Notes 3

The REALbasic news just keeps coming.

Software

• SWX for REALbasic – A way for REALbasic apps to communicate with Flash
• LDAP for REALbasic – Searching, read and write entries, including
  binary items like pictures and sounds, to LDAP servers
• XML+XSL Example -Useful for printing reports to HTML

Information

• Inspiring Applications – Joe Strout and Brad Weber have formed a new consulting firm

Community

• RBDevZone donations – RBDevZone is free and will remain so, but if you’d like to donate to the cause you now can using the link on the right.
• RBDevZone Free Software – The pages for RBUnit, UltraToolBar and RegCode are now working.