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Dropping support for Atom 0.1

I've decided to drop support for Atom 0.1 formats - if they even exist. I can't seem to find any documentation or even mention that they really exist.

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Panic outdoes themselves... again.

Legendary Mac software company, Panic, Inc has recently released Coda, a new web development tool that's really, not that new.

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First Alpha of REALSyndication coming soon

I've just completed a good chunk of the work for this project. It's at the point now where the classes can create very nice RSS & ATOM feeds of any version. Although, why anybody would want to create anything other than ATOM 1.0 and/or RSS 2.0 is beyond me.

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Hey, what smells like blue?

Those that do not get this reference should remember to Futurama episode 3acv19: Roswell That Ends Well when Fry puts an "Iffy Pop" into the microwave: the impossible happens. Well this mini post is simply to inform my few readers that my impossible happened! REAL Software has not only verified my bug, but has also fixed it! I honestly expected to live with this forever! Thanks REAL Software!

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New feed icons available

In celebration of our upcoming Syndication Kit for REALbasic, we've created a set of wonderfully fun feed icons. The package includes the icons in 8 colors of 8 sizes each, all PNG - because PNG is awesome.

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Of Going Mad and Losing Work

While working on my new RSS class, I lost a couple classes that seemed to disappear. I started cursing and such, because my work was long gone - you know the drill - sonofa#*@*$iknewtherewasareasonnottouserb@*#!!.

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Creating Aqua effects in code

Using nothing but some gradient code and logic, you can creating Aqua effects using REALbasic code. We'll explain both.

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New ping system ready

Anybody paying attention to the RSS feed - thank you for your patience. I've implemented a new ping system which will allow other blogs to notify us of an update, and will put a little star next to the link on the sidebar.

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New comment system live

Our new comment system seems to be working well. There's another improvement I plan to make, in order to make it totally invincible, but I have not found a plugin for MT that can do what I need, so I may need to write my own plugin.

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Mac OS X Search Field 1.1 Released

Our Mac OS X Search Field has been updated to support Universal Binaries. There are no other new features.

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HIToolbar 1.1.1 Released

As well as updating code to work with modern versions of REALbasic and bug fixes, HIToolbar has been update to work with Universal applications as well. This is a must-have upgrade for all users of HIToolbar.

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