I tried to explain why a certain item in RB was treated the way it was (although admittedly there IS an issue that should NOT have happened) REALbasic strives to create GUI’ s that look much the same on the respective target platforms as the on... [More]

REALbasic 2008 Release 2 had a very important change that people are discussing with regards to the way executables are built on Windows. In previous versions of REALbasic, all of your applications were single-file executables. On Windows and this ha... [More]

Here's the source code: if &hFFFFFFFF > 0 then break else break end if (Of course, you can ignore the constants -- this happens with variables as well. Imagine u as being a UInt32 whose value is 0xFFFFFFFF, and i...... [More]

We all know that REAL Software can't be bothered to document REALbasic properly, so it comes as no surprise that I can find no reference in the docs to the pairs class, the only new feature RS is advertising for 2008r2.Of course, Aaron has stepped in... [More]

Wow, today's one of those news days that money can't buy.In Vacaville, California, a man found a pit bull in his car. In the engine. Yeah. Picture here. That's pretty odd, I'd say.And in my own hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the 600 block of So... [More]

NICKENICH, Germany (May 7th, 2008) -- Monkeybread Softwaremakes their tutorial movies available as Podcast on iTunes.You can search for REALbasic on iTunes or just follow this link: [More]

One of the new features of REALbasic 2008r2 is the concept of "Pairs", and I wanted to take a little bit of time to discuss them. The concept of a pair is something that comes up frequently in programming. As...... [More]

A few folks have emailed me or left comments on the site to ask how Sybil, my Parkwood Hybrid, is doing these days. In a nutshell, she's great. In a slightly larger nutshell, I'm happy enough with her that I sold my Rickenbacker, and those of you who... [More]

Ziar nad Hronom, Slovakia (May 3, 2008) -- MacO's creative workshop is pleased to announce new version of DiskLister, a SQL catalogizer for Mac, Windows and Linux. Create databases of your backups to search and browse them on your computer or over ne... [More]

Interface Kit 1.0.3 and MIER 1.5.1 updated todayJhangle, Pingtung, Taiwan (May 5th, 2008) -- Sam Rowlands, freelance developer and shareware author announced the immediate availability of Interface Kit 1.0.3 and Machine Information + Erro... [More]

Some things like undo, feature rich controls, keyboard shortcuts and modifier keys, application-wide drag and drop, and copy and paste of application objects are just a few of the things that I just find myself missing terribly. We spent 8 hours yes... [More]

REAL Software Now Shipping REALbasic 2008 Release 2New release includes 200 improvements and adds Pairs as a new class.AUSTIN, Texas, USA (May 6, 2008)— REAL Software, maker of REALbasic, a cross-platform development environme... [More]

Well so far so good. I’ve not blown anything up (yet), and I’ve poured through a lot of code and even figured out some things in the IDE I even closed one of my own bug reports because I can’t reproduce it any more either Obviou... [More]

I could have sworn that I blogged on this topic before, but a peek at my backlog shows that I've not. I'll be dipped! Please accept my apologies about how this posting rambles on... I've had about eight hours of...... [More]

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I start my new position with REAL tomorrow ! I’ve been spending time this weekend just getting everything set up so I can get connected to SVN, Fogubugz, email, etc, etc so I won’t have to spend a pile of time goofing around doing that to... [More]

Top 278 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants".Some samples:These aren't the pants you're looking for.Search your pants, Luke. You know it's true.I cannot teach him. The boy has no pants.He has no time for smugglers who drop their ... [More]

That's a great question! I've always said that REALbasic is a good choice (for the most part) for people wanting to migrate from Visual Basic 6. The article points out that for most applications, they should probably stay in VB6 unless they're high... [More]

Toronto, Ontario (April 28, 2008) -- RAGE Software announced today the immediate availability of RAGE Sitemap Automator 1.9.5. A free update to the search engine submission tool which helps webmasters get their websites listed in Google, Yahoo, MSN a... [More]

CHICAGO, Illinois--April 28th, 2008--Oranged Software releases an update to the new accounting package built on power, flexibility and ease of use: Accounted.Accounted is a powerful bookkeeping solution with many of the features seen in m... [More]

I’m a few minutes early, but not by much. Unfortunately, there won’t be a FF08, so that means that you *must* get to SWFox to satisfy your VFP addiction. I’m sure that the SWFox gang will put on another great show this year. ... [More]

Nearly every project I've ever worked on (even in my electrical engineering days) has had lengthy requirement documents. Whether I did it, the team did it, or the customer did it, the requirements documentation was generally the bible of what the pr... [More]

This post showed up on the forums the other day, but I think it requires some more time in the spotlight -- I am very happy about all of the new hires we've been making recently. So I'd like to...... [More]

We’ve added a lot of new people recently to the REAL Software team. Since many of you communicate with REAL Software staff directly, and since we have added new people, we want to make sure you know who you are communicating with.Nathan ... [More]

Spell Checker version 1.0 has been released on April 24, 2008! Spell Checker is a REALbasic Class that allows a REALbasic programmer to easily add spell checking capability to their applications. Spell Checker also provides simple diction... [More]

Interesting interview on Guy Kawasaki’s blog about customer service. The interview is with Bill Price about how “No Service is the best service” Basically the premise is to make things work so well that customer service is NOT requi... [More]

Sure enough, they won’t serve up video to Linux based computers.  I got the low down from The ERACC Web Log. I wonder why they made that decision?  To block video based on the operating system?  Weird. ... [More]

The big project I’d been working on is done. I twas done last week (Fri) but we are all wrapped up and moving on as of today.  So now I’m off to my “next big thing” And I’m a little nervous about it as it’s a huge ... [More]

Software SpellChecker - Add spell-checking to your REALbasic apps Yuma Beta 5 - The updates keep coming; now the enterprise version is available Information REAL Software Changes Feedback System - They now use Joel Spolsky’s FogBugz Community A... [More]

According to the TIOBE Programming Community Index, REALbasic may now be as popular as Oberon and Algol.... [More]

Software Engineer I PositionWe are looking for an enthusiastic REALbasic developer to add to our team. In this position you will initially be focused on the database features of REALbasic. After that you will be creating new features fo... [More]

How many times have you visited a web site, and it’s down.  Then you begin to wonder if maybe it’s your connection?  or your DSN? or a fiber cable cut?  Sure, you can try pinging and tracerouting, but it sure would be nice to have another... [More]

In December 2007 I wrote in my wish list that I wanted them to start using a modern bug tracking system. Let's be honest, the old one sucked so I wish everyone would stop moaning that they liked it. We put up with it, but once you use a real bug t... [More]

Events described in the Alanis Morissette song that are...... [More]

I probably should not write this first paragraph publicly. The beta list has been awash lately with phrases like, "I really like this new spirit of openness," "thanks for keeping us informed" and even "thanks for listening, the changes are much bette... [More]

It’s been said that here in Alberta we have all 4 seasons - summer, fall, spring and then winter - in that order. Two weeks ago we had +25C (about +77F) This week, a foot of snow, -12C (about +10F) and winds for the last 4 days blowing everythi... [More]

Hello all,We are switching away from our legacy feedback system to the FogBugz http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/ project management system. While this is a... [More]

Here are some pictures from our 2008 Paintball excursion, set to "Prowl" by Jawbone Hill. Enjoy!... [More]

As I was tucking Jonathan into bed tonight, we read today's entry in his "God and Me" book, a little devotional book for kids his age. Tonight's devotional was on creation. Here's a brief excerpt of our conversation.Me: Do you know who made all the t... [More]

And now my Rickenbacker is gone. I ended up with just shy of twenty serious inquiries, including people asking if I could ship it to California and/or Indiana. In the end, a really nice guy drove about two hours each way to try it out. He fell in lov... [More]

Lots of times his writing is just plain entertaining. Random speculation or simply funny to read. However, this time his article is pretty bang on. I dealt with a number of consulting agencies when I was an employee for companies of various sizes and... [More]

For the past few weeks, I've been working in a new job. I still work for REAL Software, of course. However, my role within the company has changed. I now carry two complementary (not to be confused with complimentary!) new...... [More]

Seems REAL has hired some new people REAL seems kind of shy about promoting this themselves ... [More]

I’ve run this setup for a long time: Windows XP machine with dual monitors of 1 17″ LCD at 1280×1024 and a 19″ CRT at 1600×1200.  My  MEPIS Linux laptop was running off of it’s LCD monitor at 1440×800. I’v... [More]

So I found a rather interesting code generator bug in XCode that happens when converting a 64-bit floating point value to an unsigned 32-bit integer. Here's a good example of what I'm talking about in REALbasic: dim d as Double...... [More]

So I put my Rickenbacker up for sale on craigslist last night. Within 24 hours, I've had seven serious inquiries about it. Wow! I didn't think it would generate that much interest. But truth be told, it's a great guitar. I just don't play it much any... [More]

Software Monkeybread Software Tutorial Movies - Learn how to use the Monkeybread plugin Information Pretty-Printing XML - A useful tip for using XSLT to format your XML Community Thom McGrath joins REAL Software - Thom’s provided some useful st... [More]

So after five and a half years with Subway, I have found a new job that's actually in the industry I have real talent in. Not to say hadn't done a good job managing over a hundred teenagers, it just...... [More]

So I had an interesting thing happen, which I should have seen coming when I posted my wedding photos -- I didn't realize just how many REALbasic users are on Facebook! ;-) But it forced me to do some interesting...... [More]

NICKENICH, Germany (April 15th, 2008) -- Monkeybread Softwareupdates movies page.Over the last months new movies have been added and today we are proudto have 30 movies there showing various parts of the MBS REALbasicplu... [More]

CHICAGO, Illinois--April 16th, 2008--Oranged Software releases an update to the best organizational tool for studios and freelancers: Studiometry.Studiometry is the best, most complete solution for companies to organize, plan, invoice, tr... [More]