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Issue 6.5 (July/August 2008)


Column
(Source Code) 		Thoughts from the Publisher (Page 5)
News News from the REALbasic Community (Page 6)
Review Opacity (Page 8)
Review Book: Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality (Page 9)
Review Custom EditField 1.4 (Page 9)
Review Book: Don't Make Me Think (Page 10)
Review Article: Beginning Object-Oriented Programming with REALbasic (Page 10)
Feature Picture Packer: An easier way to embed graphics in your REALbasic projects (Page 11)
Feature Introducing Databases: How to Design and Use SQL Databases in the REAL World (Page 16)
Feature REALGraphics: Working With Histograms (Page 21)
Column
(Beginner's Corner) 		The Invisible Interface: Using Contextual Menus (Page 34)
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(Databases for REAL) 		Database Servers for REALbasic: Valentina (Page 38)
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(BKeeney Briefs) 		Selling Custom Programming (Page 39)
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(Algorithms) 		The Two Generals' Problem: The Fog Of Networking (Page 40)
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(The Interface Designer) 		GUI Goodness: "Wrapping" UNIX programs in a graphic user interface (Page 42)
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(From Scratch) 		Swatter Part 4: A simple bug database (Page 44)
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(Object-Oriented Thinking) 		Just-in-Time References: Another Delegate Example (Page 46)
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(Inside REALbasic) 		Inside REALbasic: A new column to show REALbasic from the inside (Page 48)
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(Yuma Development) 		Yuma Session Management (Page 50)

 


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