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I recently found out that some printer drives using the CUPS printing system stopped working on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) that worked fine with t...

Today someone asked me if I knew a way to find and delete empty folders, even if they contain an invisible .DS_Store file. I googled and f...

Today I'm just helping promote someone else's work. With this blog being directed mainly to other (programming) geeks, I think you...

When you're writing a interactive Mac OS X program, it's possible that you need to delete files. And if they're files the user...

I've just published a Xojo / Real Studio class for doing smooth fade/mode/resize animations with windows and controls. Find out more a...

This article is about some advanced techniques for Xojo users that write OS X Cocoa apps. If you are using Xojo to build OS X Cocoa appli...

For the past few years I've taken over the development of iClip 5 , a Clipboard / Pasteboard tool for OS X after the original author aba...

Mac OS X 10.8 introduced a caching system for app preferences ("cfprefsd"). While this probably increases performances for apps, ...

Do you tend to show modal dialogs to show issues to the user when processing his data? Well, think twice, or you might end up upsetting your...

This is a small assortment of tips and tricks to make you understand the Xojo language better. The differences between identifiers, keywo...

I am close to releasing the next version of my tool "Arbed" for Xojo and Real Studio project files. As explained in my previous ...

As you may know, my tool Arbed  for Xojo (formerly known as Real Studio) is capable of reading and modifying Xojo's project files. This ...

(This is a repost of an article of mine on Real Software's, now Xojo Inc's,  former blog ) This post offers an introduction to th...

(This is a repost of an article of mine on Real Software's, now Xojo Inc's, former blog ) In this article I am going to share a ...

My Zip Classes for Xojo / REALbasic have been updated to v3.3.2, fixing a bug on Linux and improving the demo to handle the case when the d...

This post has nothing particular of interest, I'm just venting because I need a break. Read on to understand why: I'm very detail ...

I recently needed to debug some threaded REALbasic code. I could not use the IDE debugger because the issue I had occured only in built apps...

If you use the Xojo IDE's CopyFiles build step to add files to your built application, beware of this long-existing bug. Maybe you...

This is a heads-up for all those who read the Clipboard with the Carbon API (e.g. PasteboardCreate). This is about rare but possible issu...

Hello visitor, This is a short intro about my background and what you can expect from this blog in the future. I've been programming ...