Using InnoSetup to Build an Installer for Your Apps
November 24th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
For many years, REALbasic was able to generate single-file Windows executables. It was a great selling-point. Unfortunately, as of REALbasic 2008 Release 2 this feature is no longer available. I won’t go into why, as Aaron Ballman explained the reasons quite well in a blog post from last spring. The...

Association of REALbasic Professionals is now Open
November 3rd, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
I am pleased to announce that the Association of REALbasic Professionals is now open. This means that our web site is up and running and we now allow you to purchase memberships. Read the press release. Why Should You Join? ARBP is intended to help grow the professional REALbasic development community....

REALbasic 2008 Release 4
September 23rd, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
This morning REAL Software announced the availability of REALbasic 2008 Release 4. I’ve been testing this version for a while and so far it’s been working quite well for me. Notable new features include: Control Locking I hate it when I click on a control to select it and end up moving it...

Standardize Format
August 21st, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
One of my favorite features of Visual Studio was that it auto-corrected the case of keywords (when using VB) after you hit return on a line. So for example, if I typed: if personName = "Paul" then Visual Studio would immediately convert it to: If personName = "Paul" Then A small...

REALbasic 2008 Release 3.1
July 23rd, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
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...

RegCode now available at Google Code
February 8th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General, Open Source, Source Code
Not that anyone has ever submitted changes to RegCode, our open-source registration code generator, but I have greated a Google Code page for it: regcode.googlecode.com By using Google Code, RegCode is now in a nice Subversion repository, which anyone case download (if you’re interested in contributing,...

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...

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,...

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.

About the new RBDevZone look
October 12th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in General
So, it’s been a couple days since RBDevZone has debuted with its new look. I’d love to get your thoughts and also give you a little bit of background as to why it changed. The main reason for the change is that the old site, which was very functional, just wasn’t much fun to use. ...