Squidoo Updates

The REALbasic Squidoo page has been updated. I added some new stuff and cleaned up what was there.

Check it out:

http://www.squidoo.com/realbasic

REAL Software Affiliate

A short while ago, REAL Software announced their new affiliate program. I’m proud to announce that RBDevZone has been approved and is now an official REAL Software Affiliate Site.

If you’re looking to purchase some new licenses of REALbasic or REAL Server, I get a small commission if you click on the giant graphic at the top to get to the REAL Software Store.

Current Notes 50

Software

Source List Control – A nice-looking iTunes/Finder-style ListBox.

Action Bar – A slick button bar that works great with the Source List.

Pill Button – An implementation of the OS X “spotlight”-style button.

RBFTP – Open-source FTP client written in REALbasic.

TCMPortMapper – Classes to open TCP/UDP ports in a router/gateway using UPnP or NAT-PMP.

Formatted Text Control 1.3 – An update to the premier word processor control for REALbasic.

Information

REALbasic and Objective-C With Cocoa – This useful series from Philip Regan continues.

Community

What’s Your Favorite Thing About REALbasic? – I agree with Bob: ContainerControls are my favorite feature, which makes the Professional version a must.

Why Does RB Have 3 File Formats? – A good question. I pretty much only use the version control format these days.

The Relevance of REALbasic – A counterpoint (by yours truly) to Bob’s “Is REALbasic Relevant?” blog post from a couple weeks ago.

Back to Normal

I don’t know the exact cause of the malware attack on RBDevZone early this morning. Originally I suspected it was related to the new custom theme I was using, but it also could have been a flaw in WordPress 2.6

I have removed the offending code from the templates, have upgraded the site to use WordPress 2.7 (the latest version) and have upgraded all plugins.

Everything seems to be back to normal now. If anyone notices any suspect behavior in the future, please let me know directly: paul@logicalvue.com

Thanks for your patience. I apologize again for the inconvenience.

Malware Attack!

It appears that two of the custom themes I have been using for RBDevZone were infected with malware sometime last night.

I have no idea how, but there must have been some security flaw in them. I have reverted back to the default WordPress theme, for the time being.

I apologize for any inconvenience and will continue to investigate.