FoxForward 2007 – Speaker List Finalized
We have received word from the balance of the FoxForward presenters. Just today, we have finalized the list. We’re grateful to welcome back Alan Stevens as a repeat presenter. We’re also welcoming two new presenters; Woodie Westbrook from Alabama to speak on n-tier design, and we’re also glad to welcome four time Visual FoxPro MVP, [...]
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FoxForward ’07 – Deadline is today; registration opens!
If you haven’t submitted a topic for FoxForward 2007, there’s still some time! Today is the deadline for presentation submissions. The topics and presentations last year were top notch. We’re looking for Fox topics, and we’re also interested in adding more eclectic topics as well. If you’re working with some cool technology, that might make [...]
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REALbasic – Release 2
REALsoftware released their second of four planned releases of the year today; RB2007 release 2. It features an incremental compiler, improvements to the code editor, and lots of enhancements to the debugger. The debugger really needed some improvements. I was spoiled by the debugger in VFP comparatively. A good sign about RB is that, according [...]
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REALbasic – My pros and cons
Over on the ProFox mailing list, someone was asking where people are going to be focusing their R&D/Learning time on? Actually the poster was asking about “Life after VFP?” Well, VFP isn’t going away!!! I’m going to be productive with VFP for at least a decade. Anyway, I’ve been touting REALbasic over on the forum. [...]
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REALbasic “Could not connect to database.”
I’m trying to jump back into REALbasic development so I started a new project. Being a database guy, the first thing that I wanted to do was to create the database and corresponding tables. So I choose “Add / Database / New REAL SQL Database…” I then give the name and location for the database [...]
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REALbasic Screencast 2 – Simple RB Internet App Walkthrough
In this screencast, I’m taking a simple REALbasic example application, doing a quick show of the code behind the scenes, and building the application for Linux and Windows. The results and operation are virtually identical on both platforms. Take a look! Click here to see the screencast in your browser. Click here to download the [...]
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REALbasic Screencast – IDE Walkthrough
I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time; create a screencast of the REALbasic IDE. In this video, I start from square one, a blank RB project. I show some of application settings, forms, menus, and how to build the project. Very basic but I think it shows the fundamentals of the REALbasic [...]
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REALbasic 2007 Release 1 out today
REALbasic released their latest version today. Three major points: better user interface on Windows Vista Universal Binary for RB on the Intel based Macs Improved Database Support. Lots of small fixes here. One of the database enhancements deals with working with ODBC. Why is this important? Because one of the demonstrations that I would love [...]
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My Sad REALbasic CGI Story
I had a few minutes to play and I wanted to see if I could get a REALbasic CGI application running. I opened up RB on Windows, and opened up a RB Project file (cgiapp.rbp) that I had pulled from the web. I made a small change to their “Hello World” application, built for Linux. [...]
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REALbasic 2006 release 4 out!
100,000 REALbasic Developers Gain Fast Path to Intel Support Release 4 was … released yesterday. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. The big feature of this release is that RB now supports the Universal Binaries for the Mac OS X which means that applications developed in RB will run wicked fast [...]
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