40% Sale Almost Over

February 26th, 2010

In just a few short days, our 40% off sale will end. We’d like to encourage anyone contemplating a purchase to make it before this sale ends. Once this sale is over, we don’t plan to have another sale on all of our products again until Thanksgiving (at the earliest).
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Let’s have a sale…

February 4th, 2010

Thanks to all of our wonderful customers, we had a great year in 2009 and 2010 is already looking much brighter…
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“Advanced” REALbasic Developer

February 4th, 2010

Just a short while ago, a customer referred to me as an “advanced” REALbasic developer. This came as a bit of a shock to me, and I’m not entirely sure why…
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Expanding the ARBP Discount

February 3rd, 2010

Beginning today, members of the Association of REALbasic Professionals will receive the same discount they received previously on just GraffitiSuite for all products. Every purchase made with the ARBP member coupon code will receive 25% of their total. This is only valid if purchasing directly through our online store, and not via third-party.

REALbasic and Snow Leopard: Redraw what?!

January 14th, 2010

A customer has tasked me with updating some of the UI elements in their application. Among the problems they listed was a redraw bug in Snow Leopard, where the controls on windows with a set background color would display a slightly different color in their background even with the Composite property set to True. After about an hour of testing different workarounds, I found what I believe to be an excellent solution.
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In the big guys’ store

September 4th, 2009

We just finished adding our products to the REAL Software third-party store. Now you can buy your custom class goodness when you renew your license. Don’t just sit there, go check it out. There’s all kinds of good stuff in the store.

RB: Hate that flicker

August 30th, 2009

I’m currently working on a project for a client that requires a cross-platform UI class which is pretty standard. It has working alternatives on Windows, Mac, Linux, and anything else you can think of. They want a certain style within the application, regardless of OS, and I don’t blame them for it.
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