Archive for July, 2008

Review: FTPKit

Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

A new feature I’m adding to RBDevZone is product reviews. I use quite a few different tools, plugins and classes with REALbasic which deserve some sort of mention. First up: FTPKit from Bains Software.
A project I’m working on had a requirement to regularly download updates to its internal data. The customer publishes [...]

Current Notes 41

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
REALbasic 2008 Release 3.1 - This is so cool that it warranted its own post
On-Target Reports 5.0.9 - Updated to work with REALbasic 2008 Release 3
Display Overlord 3.0.2 - Adds support for REALbasic 2008 Release 2 and up
GraphicsFormats 2.9 - Updates, including better compatibility with REALbasic 2008 Release 3
CustomEditField 1.5 - More updates to [...]

REALbasic 2008 Release 3.1

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

In case you hadn’t heard, REAL Software shipped their first “point release” for REALbasic since the advent of the Rapid Release Model 3 years ago: REALbasic 2008 Release 3.1.
Aaron points outs details for why they did this in his blog. I think it’s great to see REAL making sure that this release of REALbasic [...]

Current Notes 40

Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
Yuma 1.0 - Now released! Web development using REALbasic is finally here.
Community
Specifying Constant Types - Aaron posits some ideas for how this might work
REALbasic 2008 Release 3 - Philip talks about why he’s added it to his dock
ARBP Membership Levels - We’ve announced the Association of REALbasic Professionals membership levels and pricing.

Current Notes 39

Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
REALbasic 2008 Release 3 - The warning system and the profiler are two significant additions to the IDE. It’s been working well for me on a new project I just started. I haven’t yet moved my older projects to it, though.
Yuma Documentation Wiki - A better way to get at the docs for [...]

Current Notes 38

Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
UltraToolbar 2.2.1 - A minor update so that it works with REALbasic 2008 Release 2 (and later)
MonkeyBread Plugins 8.4 pre-release - Some Cocoa controls have been added, which is pretty exciting
Mac OS X 10.5.4 - I’m just about to install this update
GdViewer OCX - A Windows-only control for viewing images and PDFs
GuancheMOS 1.7 - Added [...]