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Documentation: Power Mac G5 - Single Processor Developer Note

Documentation: iBook Developer Note

FileMaker Pro 7 and FileMaker Developer 7 v3 Updates are now available, and FileMaker Server 7 updaters are planned for later this month. FileMaker Pro 7 v3 improves performance with more than 300 modifications in text editing, layout editing, scripting, calculations, portals, value lists, import/export, find, spell checking, and security.

BasaOne 1.2 from Basasoft is a web application IDE. It allows for the writing of web applications with database access without having to bother about different programming languages, servers, databases, etc. It integrates PHP, MySQL, HTML, and CSS technologies into one application with a debugger, compiler, and more. This release adds QuickTime support, more speed, drop-down lists, and interface enhancements.

CGIScripter 2.35 Enterprise Edition from .com Solutions has been updated to generate Perl CGI scripts for FileMaker Pro 7 and FileMaker Server 7 Advanced databases, in addition to many other popular database servers. Other improvements include improved Perl CGI script generation for Oracle 10G databases, and the ability to enter Oracle service names with more than 8 characters.

Web Site Maestro 3.3 from Tonbrand Software speeds up your site by optimizing HTML and script code and uploading them in one pass. This version has a revamped Mac OS X user interface and a more user-friendly Configuration Wizard.

Sample Code: MLTE_CustomScrolling

Technical Q&A: Enabling the Navigation Services default behavior in its dialogs

Technical Q&A: Fixing the Layout Binding of the Tab control User Panes

Technical Q&A: Managing custom drawing code in a compositing world

Technical Q&A: Finding an NSView's current magnification

Technical Q&A: How do I determine how much VRAM is available on my video card?

Technical Q&A: glFlush() vs. glFinish()

<oXygen/> XML Editor 5 from Syncro Soft is an easy-to-use, Java-based editor for XML, XML Schemas (W3C XML Schemas, Relax NG schemas), and XSL stylesheets. This version adds an XSLT 2.0 editor and debugger, XPath 2.0 evaluator, XQuery Editor, WSDL Editor and SOAP Analyzer, and SVG Viewer.

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

iPatch 3.0 from iPatch.org lets developers compare the resources of two applications to produce a self-applying patch to update an older version of an application to a newer version. iPatch fully supports prebinding and is now able to compress data using zlib. It also includes a tool to compare files and folders.

PC-Mac PasswordVault 3.3 from Lava Software is a simple, secure, enterprise-level, multi-platform password manager. This new version improves password security and includes additional custom-build options for large organization licensees.

Sample Code: SimpleVideoOut

Internet Development with WebObjects (Introduction) November 1-5 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UNITED KINGDOM

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

Cocoa Bootcamp November 8-12 in Atlanta, GA

Ongoing: Apple Training Courses
Courses for developers include:
- Developing Desktop Applications with Cocoa
- Internet Application Development Using WebObjects
- Advanced WebObjects Development

Ongoing: FileMaker Professional Foundation Training Series II

A special hardware discount program is available to ADC Premier and Select exhibitors at several major trade shows.

Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention October 28-31 in San Francisco, CA

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 Valletta, MALTA

InterBEE 2004 November 17-19 in Tokyo, JAPAN

MacExpo 2004 November 18-20 in London, UNITED KINGDOM