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Get the August 2004 Developer Documentation PDF, a convenient collection of Reference Library Documentation that includes all updates delivered in August. All ADC members may log in to their ADC account to download the PDF package located in "Download Software: Reference Library."

Xserve G5 Firmware Update 5.1.7f1 provides enhanced reliability during reboot sequences as well as support for the Xserve G5 PCI Hardware RAID Card.

iMac G5 Developer Note

MPEG MovieMaker 200S 1.0 from Optibase is a half-sized, PCI MPEG-2 encoding board for DVD creation. Used with Apple's DVD Studio Pro, it provides users with a streamlined DVD encoding and authoring environment. This hardware encoder eliminates the need for lengthy video capture and CPU-intensive software encoding, allowing you to encode and author simultaneously on the same computer.

Java 1.4.2 Update 2 Final Candidate is targeted at a limited set of regressions introduced by Java 1.4.2 Update 1. All ADC members may log in to their ADC account to download the package located in "Download Software: Java."

Technical Q&A: Right- and Control-Drags on Mac OS X

TransactionsJTA 1.40 from Atomikos is a full JTA transaction manager featuring recovery, nested transactions, and handy administration tools. This edition includes built-in support for non-XA databases, such as MySQL, and any other DBMS for which there is a regular JDBC driver.

Security Update 2004-09-07 (10.3.5 Server) delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users.

Security Update 2004-09-07 (10.3.4 Server) delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users.

Security Update 2004-09-07 (10.2.8 Server) delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users.

Haxial KDX 1.52 from Haxial Software is a Mac OS X version of its popular KDX Server, a powerful multi-OS Bulletin Board System (BBS) that provides encrypted Internet messaging, file and folder transfers, news, voice and text chat capabilities, remote access, and more.

Biferno 1.1 from Tabasoft SAS is the latest version of the object-oriented, HTML-embedded, scripting language for web development. The high-level built-in classes make the code clean and easy to maintain. With the new Biferno xmlDoc class, it's now possible to open, create, modify, and validate XML documents. The new Biferno extension jclass allows Biferno code to invoke Java classes directly.

eRez Imaging Server 3.0 from YaWah feeds real-time dynamic images to websites, providing viewers with an unlimited pan and zoom capability. It creates high or low resolution images for any media from a single master image. This version features full-text search capabilities, zoom-in functionality in PDF, EPS and Illustrator documents, PDA and SmartPhone support, new "Publish-to-Web" Tools for Slideshows and 3D images, and more.

Security Update 2004-09-07 (10.3.5 Client) delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users.

Security Update 2004-09-07 (10.3.4 Client) delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users.

Security Update 2004-09-07 (10.2.8 Client) delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users.

Technical Q&A: Setting the ColorSync profile for a NSBitmapImageRep object

Technical Note: CrashReporter

CPLAT II 1.0 from ksoft is a modern, low-cost framework for development of C++ applications that run under Mac OS and/or Windows. This redesigned version incorporates modern Mac OS X technologies such as Carbon Events, HIViews, composited windows, sheets, nibs, and so on.

Dreamcard 2.5 from Runtime Revolution is a tool that helps beginning through intermediate developers build multimedia projects, games, and professional-looking applications. Users can also create application 'stacks' that run using the free Dreamcard Player.

For more development tools:
Macintosh Products Guide
Mac OS X Downloads

Technical Q&A: Avoiding Pauses When Looping Audio Files with QuickTime

Gordon Flash 1.4 from FutureCandy is a Flash Resource Extractor, ActionScript Decompiler, and SWF Editor built for Mac OS X. This version improves playback and overall performance, as well as allowing users to edit position, size, and color transform information of all graphic symbols. In addition, the "Stage" now renders masked layers.

Internet Development with WebObjects (Introduction) September 27-October 1 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UNITED KINGDOM

PostgreSQL Bootcamp October 4-8 in Atlanta, GA

PHP 5 Bootcamp October 18-22 in Atlanta, GA

Introduction to Programming on Mac OS X: Cocoa Workshop October 23-24 in Biloxi, MS

AppleScript Pro Training Sessions November 8-12 in Newport, RI

Ongoing: Apple Training Courses

Ongoing: FileMaker Professional Foundation Training Series II

European Borland Conference September 27-October 1 in Frankfurt, GERMANY

Web Essentials: Web Standards and Accessibility Conference September 30-October 1 in Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Web 2.0 Conference October 5-7 in San Francisco, CA

4D Summit Conference 2004 October 19-22 in New Orleans, LA

Educause October 19-22 in Denver, CO

Blender Conference 2004 October 22-24 in Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS

O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference October 25-28 in Santa Clara, CA ADC Members receive a 20% discount when using discount code: macosx04adc Early bird deadline ends September 20, 2004

EuroBSDCon 2004 October 29-31 in Karlsruhe, GERMANY

SC2004: High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference November 6-12 in Pittsburgh, PA

European Revolution Conference November 14-16 in MALTA

MacExpo 2004 November 18-20 in London, UNITED KINGDOM