The German REAL Studio Conference 2010 is closing in quickly. Join us from October 8th to 10th for in-depth, advanced, technical sessions in beautiful Koblenz, Germany. Just 249 Euro (early bird offers and discounts available), including food and be... [More]

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Yesterday a plugin user called me. One of his application users had this error dialog: It looks like a typical cache trouble error, but in this case it was a virus scanner which put our DLLs into a quarantine so the application was not allowed to ... [More]

A lot of people have been asking me about getting into the REAL Studio Beta Program. It's easy to join - just log into your account on the website and go to Beta Program, or visit http://realsoftware.com/account/beta.php. You must have a current RE... [More]

If you want to upgrade from REAL Studio Pro to Enterprise, you can use the coupon code WEB10 when upgrading in the store. You get Enterprise Edition today and Web Edition when it ships! Between now and 15th September Pro to Enterprise upgrades will ... [More]

I don’t think many people saw this coming. With all that REAL has been working on lately (Cocoa, LLVM), it hardly seems like they’ve had enough time to also roll out a new product. But today, REAL Software announced REAL Studio Web Ed... [More]

Learn something about using midi devices with PortMidi classes: ... [More]

First, let me get this out of the way:  I am not a web developer.  My plate is more than full enough developing desktop applications and while I’d *like* to do some web apps, it’s just not in my realm of the probable at this point in my l... [More]

Today REAL Software announced the REAL Studio Web Edition. Watch the video: http://realsoftware.com/web/video.php I hope we can reuse our plugins on this edition. For example ChartDirector to offer nice charts. And our SQL Plugin to connect to dat... [More]

Three months we started to count users with clustrmaps.com and made the visitors of the blog visible. So here is the current map after 3 months and with over 2000 visitors: ... [More]

When my dad first started programming, he programmed in binary by flipping 8 switches on the front of a computer then pressing a button to enter that single byte. He was quite literally flipping bits. This was considered first generation programming.... [More]

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Just completed a 2.12 mi walk – Running around Daniel's Den with the kids. Grace is still doing C25k . http://rnkpr.com/a90ocu #RunKeeper # Just completed a 5.11 mi run – Nice cool morning. http://rnkpr.com/a914mj #RunKeeper # “@jack... [More]

You can use this code: Sub Open() dim f as FolderItem = LaunchServicesFindApplicationForInfoMBS("","com.apple.DiskUtility","") if f<>Nil then f.Launch end if End SubBy bundle ID you can la... [More]

Did you know that you can add private information (including attachments) to public cases in Feedback? There are times when you want to provide us with information and perhaps even projects that show off a particular bug but don't want that informati... [More]

from wikipedia: FreeTDS is a free software programming library, a re-implementation of the Tabular Data Stream protocol. It can be used in place of Sybase's db-lib or ct-lib libraries. It also includes an ODBC library. It allows many open source app... [More]

Last year I was in the USA and I bought a mobile phone. So I had a phone and people inside the USA could call me cheaper than over my German mobile phone. Now I put this number on a few places and people called it. But I did not use this phone for t... [More]

I'd like to share a few numbers with you: For the 10.4 plugin release, we did a lot of tests. Not just wether several RB versions on Mac and Windows work with the plugins and whether they still run on Mac OS X 10.4. We test build all 1190 example p... [More]

Today we release our new REALbasic plugins in version 10.4. This new release is one of the biggest ever with 1550 new items. So you find a lot of new classes there: the MacUSBDeviceMBS class to enumerate usb devices on Mac OS Xthe XLS* classes to ... [More]

Added MacUSBDeviceMBS class. Added XLS* classes to read binary excel files. Added WindowsClipboardMBS class. Added NSPasteboardMBS class. Added WindowsDiscInfoMBS class. Added WindowsDeviceMBS class. Added QTPrerollMBS class. Added ComplexSingleM... [More]

Currently we have 46 plugins. But having all those plugins available for order does not really make sense, so we'll cut the list today. Some plugins are only useful if you have others and some are only used with professional users which take the com... [More]

ODBC + PHP + MS SQL = me still at work, waiting for this script to finish… # Just got home from an outside dinner at Loxley's. Cool place! # Just completed a 3.98 mi run with @runkeeper. Check it out! http://rnkpr.com/a8s2th #RunKeeper # J... [More]

New in the 14th prerelease of the 10.4 plugins: Added ExecuteCommandMT, ExecuteMT methods and Working event to the SQLCommandMBS class. Added SQLExecuteMT, SQLSelectMT methods and Working event to the SQLConnectionMBS class. CoreImage classes are n... [More]

Today I worked on threading. And it is possible to move some long process on a thread, I mean a process which does not yield time to other threads. Let's say you have a SQL query on a database. This query may take 30 seconds and in this time, your G... [More]

REAL Software announced yesterday that REAL Studio 2010 Release 4 will no longer be actively supporting the PowerPC (PPC) framework.  This really means that only major bug fixes will be done to the PowerPC framework and nothing new will be added to i... [More]