CodeVue Now Available

CodeVue 1.0, a code snippet manager for Real Studio, is now available in the Mac App Store .  It’s on sale now for the next two weeks for only $4.99!

CodeVue features:

• Full syntax highlighting
• Manage any number of code snippets
• Searching
• Copy/Paste
• Create new snippet from clipboard

New features planned for CodeVue include:

• Sharing code between computers using Dropbox
• Font selection
• Sharing code online with other users
• Support for syntax highlighting of other languages

View CodeVue in the Mac App Store.

Real Studio Story

Bob Keeney had an interesting post this weekend where he details how he ended up using Real Studio. I loved it and thought I would share my story as well.

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Real Studio 2011 Release 1 Now Available

Today Real Software shipped Real Studio 2011 Release 1. The first thing you might notice is that Real Software is no longer spelled in all caps as REAL Software. And Real Studio is no longer REAL Studio. Minor changes to be sure, but I think this new branding looks more professional.

More importantly, Real Studio 2011 Release 1 has a large number of fixes for both Cocoa and Web Edition. Cocoa still has the beta tag associated with it, but I’ve found that it works much, much better than before. I now have three projects that seems to work perfectly fine when built for Cocoa (up from 0 in prior releases).

This release also includes the CGI deployment option for web applications. This is intended to replace the FastCGI deployment option, which was pretty tricky to configure on many hosts. The CGI deploying purports to be easier and in my testing it so far has been. There are other web fixes as well.

Be warned that web projects saved in Real Studio 2011 cannot be opened in Real Studio 2010 Release 5.1, not that you would want to given all the web edition changes.

REAL Studio Developer Magazine 9.3

The latest issue (9.3 – March/April 2011) of REAL Studio Developer Magazine is now available. In my Databases column, I talk about various ways to use SQLite as a server.

Also debuting in this issue is my new column on web development with REAL Studio Web Edition.

Check it out!

REAL Studio Developer Magazine

Detecting 64-bit Windows

While testing, we discovered a REAL Studio app for a client was acting odd when running on Windows 7 64-bit.  The HTMLViewer control was causing odd exceptions and crashing the app.

After a bit of research I figured out that if I instead updated the HTMLViewer from a timer, rather than directly when the window was opening, the crashes went away.

But the timer introduced a slight delay before the HTML appeared so I didn’t want to have all versions of the app work this way.  Of course, I could easily restrict it to Windows by using a compile constant:

#If TargetWin32 Then
...
#Endif

But this catches all versions of Windows, 32-bit and 64-bit. This is because all REAL Studio applications are 32-bit applications regardless of which version of Windows they are running on.
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RBDevZone gets a new server

As part of my researching of virtual private servers (VPS) for use with REAL Studio web edition, I have now settled on one: HostRail.com

Their prices are fabulous, their support is great and their servers run well. I’ll have more to say about their server and how I set it all up to host REAL Studio web apps, multiple web sites, Subversion and REAL Server (SQLabsServer).

As a first test, I have moved RBDevZone from BlueHost to my VPS at HostRail. Already, the web site seems faster. And of course, I can now host REAL Studio web applications on this VPS. Check out my WebAppTest application.

If you notice anything missing from the site, please let me know!