Current Notes 30

Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

For #30, an extra-large Current Notes!
Software
CalendarKit 2.0 beta - Now integrates with Outlook
Yuma - Develop web apps using REALbasic!
Toringo Plugins - Plugins for encryption and DRM
On-Target Reports 5.0.3 - Bug fixes
gZip plugin - Now open-source
Notebook TabPanel - It’s a notepad and a tab!
Extended Plugin 3.3 - Extend your numeric precision
Inline HTTP (and more) - From […]

REAL World 2008: The Events

Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

On Wednesday night, everyone walked down to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for a somewhat strange event, at least for me. This place is a movie theatre that serves food and comedy all while showing a movie. I told you it was strange.
The movie was the 80’s classic Back to the Future. The […]

REAL World 2008: The Sessions

Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

I didn’t attend a lot of sessions this year. A good amount of sessions were repeats from prior years or beginner-level. But that’s OK, because it gave me plenty of time to chat with other people and do the “networking” thing. I got and handed out lots of business cards
Obviously, […]

REAL World: Day 1, The Keynote

Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

I’m taking a break now, but here’s my summary of the first day of REAL World 2008 so far…
The morning started with Geoff’s keynote. I did some Twitter about this, which you can read here.
Geoff recapped some of the new features that have been added to REALbasic in the past year and then talked […]

REAL World 2008: Day 0

Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

I landed safe and sound at about 5pm local time here in Austin. Apparently there were some significant thunderstorms in Texas today, so I’m glad I wasn’t delayed at all.
Ran into a lot of familiar faces here at the Omni, but I didn’t have much time to socialize as I had to meet Geoff […]

Current Notes 29

Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
Icon Suite - Icon utilities for REALbasic
Interface Kit - Adds a bunch of slick UI controls to your apps
Elastic Window - Source code license is now 45% off. I haven’t used this, but Christian’s a good guy and makes good software.

Current Notes 28

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
UNIXCrypt - Now available on Google Code
RBScoutSubmit - Now available on Google Code. Submit crash logs from your apps to a FogBugz bug tracker
OTR Graphics - The graphics engine for On-Target Reports is now open-source
Community
Association of REALbasic Professionals - You can learn more about this new organization at REAL World 2008 during breakfast on […]

Current Notes 27

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
Sparkle - An update to the OS X library for auto-updating your applications
Information
Compare Array References to Nil - Charles has a good tip: use a Variant (at least in REALbasic 2008 Release 1)
REALLoadGlobalMethod Doesn’t Do What You Might Think - Strictly for you plugin authors
Community
How Do I Feel About REALbasic? - Steve Garman’s Love/Hate Relationship […]

Current Notes 26

Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
MBS Plug-ins 8.1 - More useful updates
Ben’s ListBox Extras Class - Adds more features to the venerable ListBox class; $30 source included
Zip Package - Another useful utility from Thomas Tempelmann, who also wrote some great Atari ST software back in the day
Information
First Look: REALbasic 2008 Release 1 - Not very in-depth, but good to see […]

Current Notes 25

Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
UndoEditField - A lightweight class that extends the EditField with undo functionality
FMOD Ex Audio Classes - Open-source classes to hook into the powerful, cross-platform FMOD Ex audio library
Information
MicroISV Sites that Sell - An eBook by Bob Walsh that might be useful to those of you selling software. I bought it.
Community
REALbasic Wiki now has code […]