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October 30th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
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...

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October 26th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
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

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October 23rd, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
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 –...

REALbasic Application Showcase
October 19th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in General
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...

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October 19th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
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...

REAL Software Newsletter
October 16th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in General
REAL Software sent out their first monthly newsletter today.  If you haven’t received it, you should soon (or you might want to check your spam folder).  There’s a blurb in it about my role as Community Evangelist, which I’ll reproduce here: Community Corner Written by Paul Lefebvre,...

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October 16th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Current Notes is based on the Daily Grind by Mike Gunderloy at Larkware. Software MarsEdit – I’m trying out this tool for edit postings. Seems pretty slick so far. I don’t think it’s written in REALbasic, but it would make a good RB app. Information Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard...

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October 15th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Some REALbasic news from around the internets: Software Hex Plugin 1.2 – Hexadecimal lives on with this plugin ExtendedPlugin 3.2 – It might take awhile, but with this plugin you can now calculate pi in a REALbasic program to a million decimal places (be warned, however: it’s GPL) HelpLogic...

RBDevZone update
October 15th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in General
The site is being moved to a new server. The prior content should now all be available again.  Please let me know if you notice any anomalies.

Zing with CapacityString
October 15th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in ResExcellence, Source Code, Strings
by Seth Willits In this tutorial we’re going to write a CapacityString class which will vastly improve string performance in certain situations. Now, I admit this tutorial isn’t exactly going to be eye catching, but I think for some of you it will be quite an eye opener. The Problem Let’s...