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REALbasic Developer Magazine Archive

Welcome to the RBD Magazine Archive! Here you can browse through all published issues of the magazine. Every article published in RBD has a permanent page within this section of the website. (The article's URL is unique and permanent, so feel free to link to it from your own website.)

For each article you will find pertinent details (author, description, length, etc.), links to resources mentioned in the article (websites and REALbasic project files), and a brief text excerpt. If an article has corrections or additions, you will find those on the article's page. If you're running into a problem with a project, check the article's web page to see if there's been an update since the article was published.


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(All magazine articles include a unique article number. If you know an article's number, you use that number to quickly find a specific article.)



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1.1 (Aug/Sep)
1.1 cover
Andrew Barry, Animation, RegEx, REALbasic		1.2 (Oct/Nov)
1.2 cover
RB Basics, Undo, 3D Math, Bundling		1.3 (Dec/Jan)
1.3 cover
FPS, QuickTime, VQS Guide, Geoff Perlman		1.4 (Feb/Mar)
1.4 cover
Software Marketing, Aqua, TouchCAD, Coffee Break Pro
1.5 (Apr/May)
1.5 cover
REALbasic 5, Path-Finding Algorithms, Spamfire		1.6 (Jun/Jul)
1.6 cover
QuickTime, Control Bindings, Quesa, 3D Fog, Z-Write		2.1 (Aug/Sep)
2.1 cover
Linux, REALbasic 5, Mesh Deformations, Recent Items Menu		2.2 (Oct/Nov)
2.2 cover
Explosions, Text Encodings, Auto-Discovery, Net Toolbox
2.3 (Dec/Jan)
2.3 cover
Preferences, Localization, DiscBlaze, Unrolling Loops		2.4 (Mar/Apr)
2.4 cover
Renegades 3D Game Engine, RB 5.5, 3D Collisions, Music		2.5 (May/Jun)
2.5 cover
REAL World 2004, PDF, SQL, RB 5.5 Databases		2.6 (Jul/Aug)
2.6 cover
Vernier's LabPro, Draw with Text, SQL, Joe Strout, RBScript
3.1 (Sep/Oct)
3.1 cover
RB Web Server, Vernier's LabPro, Command-line RB, Sheets		3.2 (Nov/Dec)
3.2 cover
Vector Graphics, RDF/XML Database, Asynchronous Keyboard Input, Ben Copsey		3.3 (Jan/Feb)
3.3 cover
Serial Programming, Publicity, HelpLogic, Self-Updating Apps		3.4 (Mar/Apr)
3.4 cover
Coffee Cooling, Mouse Gestures, Serial Programming, Sp@mx
3.5 (May/Jun)
3.5 cover
REAL World 2005, Registration Algorithms, RB 2005 Preview, Redlien Account Executive		3.6 (Jul/Aug)
3.6 cover
Generating Mazes, Ringtones, Networking, Floating Point Math		4.1 (Sep/Oct)
4.1 cover
Falling Objects, Networking, Floating Point Math		4.2 (Nov/Dec)
4.2 cover
Ballistic Sprites, Software Distribution Formats, Networking, QuickTime
4.3 (Jan/Feb)
4.3 cover
Networking Secrets, Harmonic Motion, Kidzmail, RB2005 vs. RB5		4.4 (Mar/Apr)
4.4 cover
Autonomous Vehicle, Scrollable Controls, SuperSprite, Beginner Questions		4.5 (May/Jun)
4.5 cover
REAL World 2006, Planetary Motion, Refactoring		4.6 (Jul/Aug)
4.6 cover
XML, Time-Limited Demos, Kodiak, Binary Searches, Data Structures
5.1 (Sep/Oct)
5.1 cover
Zombies (3D Game), Random Numbers, StringUtils, REAL SQL Server		5.2 (Jan/Feb)
5.2 cover
Drunken Walk Math, Bitwise Functions, Expert Answers, Styled Text, Fourier Benchmarking		5.3 (Mar/Apr)
5.3 cover
Guiding Users, Speed Tricks, Monte-Carlo Integration, Stan Busk, TCP, Dynamic Windows		5.4 (May/Jun)
5.4 cover
Giant House Eyes, Running a Software Business, Encryption, Lightspeed, Quicksort
5.5 (Jul/Aug)
5.5 cover
REAL World 2007, Text Readability, Calendar Canvas, RBScript, MDI		5.6 (Sep/Oct)
5.6 cover
REALbasic iPhone Apps, Encrypting Email, RBUnit, RBScript		6.1 (Nov/Dec)
6.1 cover
Spelling Checker, VB to RB, Burning CD/DVDs, Reality Check, Doug Lyman		6.2 (Jan/Feb)
6.2 cover
Crystal-Clear Code, Image Processing, K.I.S.S., Hierarchical Listboxes
6.3 (Mar/Apr)
6.3 cover
Finite State Machines, Impossible Programming, Loosely Coupled Systems, Introspection, Subversion, John Callis		6.4 (May/Jun)
6.4 cover
REAL World 2008, Yuma, Spelling Checking 2, Creating PDFs, MySQL, Finalizer, Menus, HelpLogic