xDev Magazine Releases Issue 15.5 (Sept/Oct 2017)

September 2017 – xDev Magazine is pleased to announce that the new Sept/Oct 2017 (15.5) issue, featuring how to make Touch Bar apps with Xojo, is now available in PDF and print formats.

xDev Magazine is the only publication in the world exclusively devoted to guiding developers in how to use the free Xojo multi-platform rapid application development environment, from Xojo, Inc.

This latest issue of the magazine includes the following feature articles:

Improve WeakRef Performance by Thomas Tempelmann
You can avoid circular references by using weakRefs, but that causes performance problems. What’s the solution?

The Case of the Broken Upgrade by Mattias Sandstrom
When a software upgrade breaks things that were working fine, finding the cause requires real detective work.

Touche by Marc Zeedar
With the latest version of MacOS Sierra, Xojo apps that use the Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar are finally possible. Marc demonstrates how to make them.

Sharing Data for Health, Part 3 by JC Cruz
Jose explores using XML to export health data from his project.

Plus: Xojo 2017r2, custom code formatting, pg_dump, SQLBuilder and ActiveRecord, and more!

This new issue can be purchased and downloaded instantly via GumRoad (http://gum.co/Zlah).

Other Products
Annual subscriptions, in PDF or full-color printed booklets, may be purchased directly from the xDev website (http://www.xdevmag.com/orders.shtml). Offering print subscriptions is a brand new service. You can read more about it on the website (http://xdevmag.com/print.shtml). Digital subscriptions cost $50; print subscriptions are $100 (USA) or $125 (international).

Also available on the xDev website are printed perfect-bound books of each of the magazine’s first 14 years. Each book is 300-500 pages and contains over 70 articles and programming tutorials. All are available for order now (http://www.xdevmag.com/orders_book.shtml).

About xDev Magazine
Formerly Real Studio Developer, xDev Magazine has been publishing since 2002. xDev is an independent bimonthly publication focused on instructing users of the Xojo development environment. Each issue features over 70 pages of quality articles from top Xojo programmers and authors. xDev is renown around the world as the premiere source of Xojo instruction, tutorials, and programming advice.

About xDevLibrary
Formerly RBLibrary, xDevLibrary.com is a site for la carte purchases of books and articles about Xojo, REAL Studio, and REALbasic. Instead of waiting for a magazine issue to be published, readers can just purchase the articles they’d like immediately. The library covers a vast array of topics for Xojo beginners, experts, and everyone in between with prices starting at under $2.

About Xojo
Xojo, Inc. was founded with the idea that software development should be accessible to anyone. With traditional tools, creating software applications can be a very complicated process, but using Xojo anyone can learn to create high quality, native apps for the desktop, web, mobile, and Raspberry Pi. With users all over the world, Xojo apps can be found in every conceivable category – from commercial software applications to use in governments, universities, businesses, and the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.xojo.com.

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