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]

Just a couple of quick reminders...Do you follow us on Twitter? If not... you should! @realsoftwareIf you are on Facebook, join our Facebook group! http://www.facebook.com/pages/REALbasic/35750265881SR7KQYZ78KNV... [More]

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Apple's switch from the 68000 series processor to the PowerPC was a bold move. The fact that they made that transition so smoothly is nearly miraculous. The switch to using the Intel processor was another bold move though having gone through a proces... [More]

Very tempting craigslist post: http://j.mp/9VgzoS But not for $250. # Waiting for the Aleve to kick in… # I can't believe this day isn't even half over yet. # Anybody else having issues with Dreamweaver CS5 on the Mac? Stupid thing wo... [More]

Anybody willing to send me an old 3GS?... [More]

I ran into a problem with REAL Studio this week that was annoying.  The IDE hard crashed on me and it had tried to save the project (this is a good thing!).  When this happens you get a dialog the next time start REAL Studio that says: “REAL St... [More]

Last year we began a process of changing the way we manage our documentation. Since 1998 we had used Adobe Framemaker to produce the documentation. This was limiting because it basically only allowed one person to make changes. After evaluating many ... [More]

Lunchtime. Meeting a friend at Caruso's. Trying to decide between pizza and sandwich. Decisions… # Tables within tables within tables within tables within tables within tables, all with inline style data and hard coded sizes. Audible sigh.... [More]

Two people called me insane yesterday. Both were experienced runners. Why did they call me insane? Because yesterday I ran my first half marathon. Nothing official, just some friends running together, but I did indeed run 13.1 miles (actually 13.2). ... [More]

Pretzel Day? # Time to run. # Just completed a 6.11 mi run – No fowl play. http://rnkpr.com/a81c34 #RunKeeper # At Dutch Wonderland waiting to pick up my son. # Just completed a 5.48 mi run – This was a four chicken run. http://rnkpr.com/... [More]

The official press release will go out soon and will go through the official REAL Software distribution channel but I couldn’t contain my excitement any longer.  It’s almost (but not quite) as exciting as announcing to your friends and fa... [More]

My review of REAL Studio 2010 Release 3 is up on the ARBP site. Bottom line is that Cocoa isn’t ready for prime-time yet (obviously since it’s labeled as BETA), but it is nice to see what they’ve been working on.  I urge you to try ... [More]

A Beta version of our Cocoa-based framework is included in REAL Studio 2010 Release 3, which is now available. While it is feature complete, it is not bug free or even close to that. Beta is defined as being feature complete but still needing usabi... [More]

AUSTIN, Texas, USA (July 27, 2010) — Software development tools company REAL Software today announced the availability of REAL Studio 2010 Release 3. REAL Studio is a cross-platform software development tool that enables developers to create high-qua... [More]

End of an era: the AppleWorks clip art server appears to be offline. Sorry, @theradmom # Just completed a 2.98 mi walk – C25k wk2 d1 w/Grace . http://rnkpr.com/a7ss00 #RunKeeper # Got my first two issues of Runner's World today, thanks to ... [More]

I've talked with a lot of users lately about our validation process and subsequent prompts for 8 digit codes. Validation of your REAL Studio license will happen whenever you enter a key into the registration dialog, revalidation happens every 90 days... [More]

Is it Pretzel Day? Should it be? What do you think? # Skipped AM run. Birthday cake for breakfast. Headache commencing… # Hoss's for lunch. Forced are conspiring to make me go over my calorie budget today. :/ # Second day in a row without ... [More]

If you're like me there's a good chance you learned programming using a language that didn't have the concept of exceptions. Instead, you probably had some error parameter to check to see if the call you just made succeeded. And if you're like me, yo... [More]

Today my band, Superficial Charm played at a benefit concert for Bethany Christian Services, a great organization that helps a lot of kids find homes. As I’ve mentioned, my son Jonathan is adopted, so when they asked us to play, we jumped at th... [More]

With the Mac's market share approaching 10%, more Windows developers are wanting to cross-compile their projects to support Mac OS X. If you are coming from Windows, this tip will help you understand a few issues you may face and how to deal with the... [More]

Official word from REAL Software about Cocoa.  2010 Release 3 will include the option to build for Cocoa.  Officially this will be labeled as ‘beta’. I think this will generate a LOT of Feedback reports for them.  Sure, it’s ‘... [More]

AUSTIN, Texas, USA (July 15, 2010) — Software development tools company REAL Software announced today that their rapid application development tool, REAL Studio, will include the option to compile a Cocoa application in the upcoming 2010 Release 3. R... [More]

I know it’s already Tuesday night, but man, I had an awesome weekend. Friday night was supposed to be the night we meet with our church small group, but only two of the couples were available, so we ended up skipping the study and just hanging out, w... [More]

The Serial communications saga continues…. Never say die when it comes to serial communications because, like so many things in programming, there are multiple areas where the problem might lie. Here are the facts as I knew them this morning.  ... [More]

I introduced my daughter @jackjillmaddie to the wonders of Strong Bad Emails tonight. And we watched on the Wii, which was pretty cool. # It's 100 degrees outside. And 60 in my cubicle. Day of extremes # I love this weather. I don't mind 10... [More]

I’ve had one of those weeks where I thought I was going crazy (crazier?).  My cross-platform application that works fine on Mac OS X was behaving very strangely in Windows but only sometimes.  This particular application talks to a hardware via... [More]