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Issue 5.2 (January/February 2007)


Column
(Source Code)
Thoughts from the Publisher (Page 5)
News News from the REALbasic Community (Page 6)
Review Automator (Page 8)
Review SuperDuper! (Page 8)
Review The Pragmatic Programmer (Page 9)
Review Book: Refactoring (Page 10)
Feature How Far We've Come: Updating a RB2.1 app to RB2006 (Page 11)
Feature Experimenting with Fourier Series: A calculation-intensive graphics and benchmark application (Page 14)
Feature REALScience: Random Walks (Page 17)
Feature Bitwise Operations for Noobs: Working with bits (Page 26)
Feature The Secret Resource: Learn from the pros -- by asking them! (Page 30)
Column
(Beginner's Corner)
Text Styling: Working with styled text (Page 34)
Column
(REALSQLDatabase (SQLite))
Triggers and Views (Page 36)
Column
(Object-Oriented Thinking)
Automatic Transaction Rollback: Leverage REALbasic Memory Management (Page 37)
Column
(Algorithms)
Sorting Arrays: Bring Order To Your Objects (Page 38)
Column
(From Scratch)
CashFlow: Building a simple database application in REALbasic. (Page 40)
Column
(Intel corner)
Mutex, Take 2: Allow only one application instance to run at a time (Page 42)
Column
(The Interface Designer)
The Interface Calendar: Hey, baby, what's your sign? (Page 44)

 



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