Some Stored Procedure Examples
December 16th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Databases
This article originally appeared in REALbasic Developer Magazine 4.3 (Jan/Feb 2006) Now that we know what stored procedures are, let’s take a look at a few more examples. The accompanying Code Listing shows a simple stored procedure for MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenBase, FrontBase, SQL Server and Oracle....

REALbasic and Cocoa
December 12th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
If you haven’t already received it, the REALbasic Newsletter came out today and it had a little teaser for the upcoming Cocoa functionality. There’s mention of Mac OS X Leopard-style windows, spell checking and pictures in EditFields, and HUD windows: Looks pretty slick to me. To get the...

An Overview of Stored Procedures
December 12th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Databases
This article originally appeared in REALbasic Developer Magazine 4.2 (Nov/Dec 2005) If you find yourself working with database servers, you may be wondering about stored procedures. Depending on who you talk to, stored procedures are either something you should definitely be using or something you should...

Database Servers: FrontBase
December 11th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Databases
This article was originally published in REALbasic Developer 6.1 (Nov/Dec 2007) FrontBase is a full-featured database server that is available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. It was created by a Denmark company and was initially release just for Mac OS X. But in 2004, it went cross-platform with releases...

Current Notes 48
December 11th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software REALbasic 2008 Release 5 – Now shipping. With tons of bug fixes and a few useful new features. REAL Capture Canvas – Now available for free. Lets you capture video and audio using REALbasic Formatted Text Control 1.2.1 – More updates to this powerful word processor control....

ARBP Member Discounts
December 4th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
As you hopefully have heard by now, ARBP is now open for business and taking memberships. And the best deal going right now is an ARBP Professional membership, which costs $150. I can already hear you asking, “What do I get for my $150″? Here’s the answer: A lot. For starters, you...

Notable New REALbasic Features
December 1st, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
Someone on the LinkedIn REALbasic group asked a question last week: “All new features of RB – anyone using them?” In it, the user said they still use REALbasic 2007 Release 5 and were wondering if the new features that have been added since then were worthwhile. I responded with a...