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Bob Keeney recently posted a blog entry Is REALbasic Relevant?. It has generated some noise in the REALbasic community. Bob is known for his brutally honest assessments of things and this post is no exception. As you may know, Bob and I are both on the board of ARBP (he’s the President, I’m the Secretary). Since I’m often known for evangelizing REALbasic, I thought I would add to the healthy discussion by offering a counterpoint of sorts.
So, is REALbasic relevant? Well, the question is “to whom”? It’s certainly relevant to me and anyone else that uses... 
The Relevance of REALbasic
Posted by Paul Lefebvre in REALbasic Jan 13th, 2009 | 8 Comments
Bob Keeney recently posted a blog entry Is REALbasic Relevant?. It has generated some noise in the REALbasic community. Bob is known for his brutally honest assessments of things and this post is no exception. As you may know, Bob and I are both on the board of ARBP (he’s the President, I’m the Secretary). Since I’m often known for evangelizing REALbasic, I thought I would add to the healthy discussion by offering a counterpoint of sorts.
So, is REALbasic relevant? Well, the question is “to whom”? It’s certainly relevant to me and anyone else that uses... Volunteering at School
Posted by Paul Lefebvre in REALbasic Nov 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments Being the computer geek that I am, I volunteer at my daughter’s elementary school once a week during computer time. The school has some pretty good technology, including a “smart board“, that projects the display onto a large screen. The kids can then just point to the screen to move the mouse around and click buttons. I want one! Unfortunately all the computers in the lab are Dell desktops running Windows XP, but what can you do? I’m sure they got a good deal on them. Anyway, a couple weeks ago the teacher had the kids do a project using Microsoft Excel to show what... Association of REALbasic Professionals is now Open
Posted by Paul Lefebvre in REALbasic Nov 3rd, 2008 | Comments Off I am pleased to announce that the Association of REALbasic Professionals is now open. This means that our web site is up and running and we now allow you to purchase memberships. Read the press release. Why Should You Join? ARBP is intended to help grow the professional REALbasic development community. If you use REALbasic at all, you owe it to yourself to check out the site and see what the benefits are. The best deal is a Professional membership, which includes a subscription to REALbasic Developer Magazine (a $50 value), over $450 in discounts on a wide variety of REALbasic-related products,... Code Spaces and REALbasic
Posted by Paul Lefebvre in Interesting Things, REALbasic, Software Development Feb 8th, 2008 | 4 Comments For the past week I’ve been testing out an online subversion hosting service to use with REALbasic. It’s called Code Spaces. I’ve set up Subversion on my office Mac several times, but I never found myself using it regularly. I think it was because I tend to work on my code from a lot of places and it wasn’t always convenient (or possible) to access the subversion repository sometimes. I then saw a post by Floyd Price on the Business of Software forums about Code Spaces a couple months ago. I saved the URL and finally got around to checking it out last week and I thought... REAL World Speaker Contest
Posted by Paul Lefebvre in REALbasic, Software Development Jan 19th, 2008 | Comments Off My entry for the REAL World 2008 Speaker Contest is now online. Like the Business of Software Conference did last year, REAL is giving 3 winners 20 minutes to speak during the REAL World keynote. So far, there are only 3 entries so we could all win! My topic is on, coincidentally enough, Software Made Simple. If I do win, that means I’ll be doing 4 presentations at REAL World. My other sessions are: Unit Test and Test-Driven Development Migrating from Visual Basic to REALbasic The REALbasic Community REAL World should again be a lot of fun. If you use REALbasic at all (or are... REAL World 2008 Sessions
Posted by Paul Lefebvre in REALbasic Nov 17th, 2007 | Comments Off REAL Software has announced the list of 41 sessions for REAL World 2008. I’ll be doing 3 of them: Porting from Visual Basic to REALbasic The REALbasic Community Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development The conference is from March 19 – 21, 2008 in Austin, Texas. I hope to see you there! RBDevZone Redux
Posted by Paul Lefebvre in Interesting Things, REALbasic Oct 16th, 2007 | Comments Off If you haven’t checked out RBDevZone, the community site for REALbasic developers, in a while then I encourage you to do so. In the last week it has been completely redesigned. I guess you could say it’s RBDevZone 2.0! I switched it from DotNetNuke to WordPress and I also switched hosting providers from WebSecureStores to FatCow. The result is that it’s much faster now and I think it should be much easier to find and read content. And it will be much easier for me to post content, particularly now that I’m testing out MarsEdit for creating my blog posts. So far, I like... REAL SQL Server 2007 Released
Posted by Paul Lefebvre in REALbasic, Software Development Sep 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment Yesterday, REAL Software released REAL SQL Server 2007. So, what is REAL SQL Server and why should you consider it? REAL SQL Server is a database server that is based on SQLite. With REAL SQL Server, you can actually take an existing SQLite database, put it in the server’s databases folder and allow multiple users to connect to it. And if you’re using REALbasic, you can do this with almost no changes to your existing code.Even better, REAL SQL Server is not a closed database that only works with REALbasic. You can also access your database using ODBC, PHP and C. With ODBC you can... 
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