REALbasic: Bug in MySQL Plugin
I’ve discovered that the current version of the MySQL database plugin for REALbasic suffers from a rather inconvenient bug: the RecordCount property always returns 0 (zero) regardless of the number of actual records contained within, despite what the documentation says.
I’ve whipped this up for use until this bug gets fixed:
Function GetRecordCount( pRecordSet as RecordSet ) [...]
REALbasic 5.5 Alpha1 available
REAL Software has released REALbasic 5.5a1 and it contains some very cool features and changes that might make this the version I upgrade to (I stopped at 4.5, seeing too many issues in the 5.x line to upgrade at the time). From the release notes:
· Code Editor: You can now press option-Return or option-Enter in [...]
XForms lives
W3 has announced that XForms has been spun off into an “independent Activity” (which is a fancy way of saying that it’s no longer a sub-project of the HTML Working Group):
The current design of Web forms doesn’t separate the purpose from the presentation of a form. XForms, in contrast, are comprised of separate sections that [...]
Mac software updates
A few notable, recent OS X software updates:
· Graphics Converter 4.8 - the best graphics conversion tool ever made
· RBrowser 3.2 - Graphical FTP client that supports SFTP and SSH
· tasks 1.7b2 - Web-interfaced To Do list (requires PHP and MySQL)
DaFONT collection
Da Font has the coolest collection of fonts ever: Movie Fonts.
Python 2.3 officially available
Python 2.3 has been released and though the official website says there’s no Mac OS release, Jack Jansen has put one together: MacPython 2.3 for OS X. Fantastic stuff! For fun before-bedtime reading, check out the highlights (Can you tell I’m really enjoying Python?)
Anyone have any word on whether MySQLdb works with it and, [...]