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RBLibrary.com Acquires RBGarage.com from Electric Butterfly

2007-02-12T16:15:00.000-08:00

Big news on the horizon! RBLibrary.com has acquired RBGarage.com from us! RBGarage.com has long been a staple of the REALbasic community, and it's in great hands with the folks at RBLibrary.com. Together, the two sites complement each other perfectly, providing a unified resource of great content for REALbasic developers. We look forward to all the wonderful plans RBLibrary.com has in store for RBGarage.com.

I also wanted to take this opportunity to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone in the REALbasic community who helped us make RBGarage.com the world's largest and most popular online resource for REALbasic developers. I especially enjoyed all of the friends I've made during my 4 years at the helm of RBGarage.com.

Yes, you read correctly -- it's been 4 years! It's hard to believe I've been running/evolving the RBGarage.com site since 2003. Wow, how time flies when you're having fun!

And to answer the question on everyone's minds: NO, this is NOT a sign that I'm leaving the REALbasic community. Far from it! I'm still a very loyal REALbasic user and evangelist! While I truly loved running RBGarage.com, my time was constantly consumed by other projects, and I felt that RBGarage.com was not getting the attention that it deserved. Since the success of RBGarage.com is more important to me than any kudos I could receive as its owner, I decided that it was in the best interest of the REALbasic community to pass the torch to a new owner who could take RBGarage.com to the next level. This acquisition frees up some much needed time, so that I can focus on other software projects and new contributions to the REALbasic community.

THANK YOU for making my RBGarage.com stewardship an incredibly fun and rewarding ride! Your support was always much appreciated!

P.S. -- With RBGarage.com now hosted on RBLibrary's servers, this RSS news feed will soon be closed. To continue receiving REALbasic-related news and blog posts from me, subscribe to my Electric Butterfly RSS Feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ebutterfly or visit http://ebutterfly.blogspot.com/

Best Regards,
Dave Wooldridge
Electric Butterfly, Inc.
http://www.ebutterfly.com

New RBGarage.com IDE Script for REALbasic 2006

2006-09-20T18:21:00.000-07:00

RB Garage announces the free, open source release of a new RBGarage.com IDE Script for REALbasic 2006. Easily search RBGarage.com for related matches to your selected Event or code in REALbasic's Code Editor with this handy, time-saving IDE Script.

RBGarage.com is the largest independent online resource for REALbasic software developers, featuring more than 1,100 links to plugins, classes, modules, examples, tutorials, services, tools, consultants, and more!

Downloads now available for the Mac OS X and Windows versions of the REALbasic 2006 IDE:

http://www.rbgarage.com/

Due to current limitations in the IDE Scripting language, there are separate versions for the Mac OS X and Windows IDEs (and no comparable solution yet for the Linux IDE).

FREE LISTINGS FOR REALBASIC DEVELOPERS:
When announcing new REALbasic-related product releases, don't forget to submit them as listings on RB Garage, one of the best ways to reach the REALbasic community! RBGarage.com receives thousands of page views EVERY DAY, so a listing in RB Garage is guaranteed to drive more traffic to your web site with the potential to also increase your sales! Take advantage of this amazing free marketing exposure! Sign up on RB Garage as a free member to submit, update and maintain your listings: http://www.rbgarage.com/

RBGarage.com Surpasses 1,000 Listings!

2006-01-25T23:33:00.000-08:00

I'm very proud to announce that RBGarage.com has surpassed 1,000 listings -- solidifying its place in the REALbasic community as the world's largest independent online resource for REALbasic software developers.

THANK YOU to all of our members who have contributed listings over the years! RB Garage could never have reached this milestone without the strong support it has received from the REALbasic community.

NEW RB GARAGE MERCHANDISE FOR 2006:
To celebrate surpassing 1,000 listings, a brand new redesigned line of official merchandise is now available. Show off your support for RB Garage by buying cool new RB Garage coffee mugs, t-shirts, long sleeve shirts, and more! Your purchases help support the ongoing maintenance and hosting costs for RB Garage. Visit the online store at http://www.cafeshops.com/rbgarage

FREE LISTINGS FOR REALBASIC DEVELOPERS:
When announcing new products, code examples, tutorials, services, and other REALbasic-related solutions, don't forget to submit them as listings on RB Garage, one of the best ways to reach the REALbasic community! RB Garage receives thousands of page views EVERY DAY, so a listing on RB Garage is guaranteed to drive more traffic to your web site with the potential to also increase your sales! Take advantage of this amazing free marketing exposure! Sign up on RBGarage.com as a free member to submit, update and maintain your listings -- http://www.rbgarage.com/

Thanks again to everyone who uses and supports RB Garage!

Regards,
Dave Wooldridge
RB Garage Webmaster

My Two Cents on REAL World

2006-01-25T16:42:00.000-08:00

I don't want this to sound like an infomercial for REAL World. Let me state for the record that REAL Software did NOT ask me to write this. I just thought I'd share my positive experiences with REAL World since every year (this year included), there are always grumblings on the various REALbasic mailing lists from people unsure of the benefits of attending REAL World.

Over the years, I've coded with many programming languages and have attended countless overpriced developer conferences, but REAL World is by far the most rewarding and beneficial, while remaining one of the least expensive. While most developer conferences are a cattle call of technology chearleaders and sponsored events where the CEO flies in only for the keynote, REAL World is the exact opposite. Geoff Perlman and his entire staff are present throughout the entire conference, talking with attendees and really listening to everyone's feedback. You'd be hard pressed to name any other developer conference where you can sit and eat lunch with the CEO and the core engineering staff, with the ability to ask any question you want (and even get honest answers)!

While you'll learn a lot from the quality sessions, in my opinion, the best thing about REAL World is the great networking opportunity that it presents. I said this last year, but I'll repeat it again -- If you think the REALbasic mailing lists represent a tight-knit community of loyal REALbasic users, REAL World is like the mailing lists on steriods.

Throughout the conference, everyone's eyes are scanning attendee badges, recognizing familiar names from the REALbasic mailing lists. It's nice to put faces to the names of the people who have helped us all with posted solutions or have created the applications we all use on a daily basis. Because the "ice has already been broken" with the mailing lists, the social energy is always extremely friendly. Everyone recognizes each other's names, so instead of wasting time with formal introductions, people simply jump into very comfortable conversations seconds after shaking hands for the first time!

One of my favorite events of the conference is the "unofficial" annual last night dinner. While many attendees leave after the conference ends that afternoon, there are many of us remaining who do not fly out until the next day. So all of the remaining attendees rally together in the hotel lobby and venture out on the town for drinks and dinner (Austin is known as the live music captiol of the world). It always ends up being an amazing networking experience, making it well worth the expense of one extra night hotel stay. For all of you who regularly attend REAL World and leave that last day in the afternoon, I encourage you to book your flight back for the following morning this year, so that you can join us for the post-conference last night festivities!

Attendees leave REAL World with not only some new REALbasic knowledge, but many of them walk away with new business opportunities, new consulting contracts, new customers, and a renewed sense of inspiration to go out and create that next killer app!

Just my two cents... See you at REAL World!

Regards,
Dave Wooldridge
RB Garage Webmaster

Happy New Year from RB Garage!

2006-01-05T19:20:00.000-08:00

This year, RB Garage is set to exceed 1,000 developer listings! Special thanks to all of you out there who visit and use RB Garage regularly! We have lots of plans in store for RB Garage in 2006...

If you are reading this from our News Blog online, you will notice that the news content has changed focus. We've decided that instead of re-posting the same news announcements that already get posted to the REALbasic NUG and REAL News mailing lists, starting in 2006 we will use this News Blog to post RB Garage-related news, developer insights from the Garage, special offers, original content such as helpful coding tips and tricks, and more!

2006 will also see many new features and improvements made to RB Garage's interface and functionality, providing an enhanced user experience. More details on that to come later this year...

We also plan to update our online store with lots of cool new RB Garage merchandise and apparel, just in time for wearing to REAL World in February!

So stay tuned! Subscribe to our free RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/rbgarage or visit our News Blog online at http://rbgarage.blogspot.com/