January 2018 – xDev Magazine is pleased to announce that the new Jan/Feb 2018 (16.1) issue, featuring a report on the MBS London Conference, teaming up Xojo with Filemaker, and more, 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:
Byte Order Marker by Eugene Dakin
Unicode was supposed to solve all our text encoding problems, but there are tricky aspects. Find out what a BOM is and how to support it.
From FileMaker to Xojo and Back Again by Ulrich Bogun
Imagine the best of FileMaker and Xojo with none of the limitations. How is that possible? by using the two together, you can take advantage of the strengths of each!
MBS London Conference 2017 by Richard Duke and Marc Zeedar
Did you go to the conference in London in November? Marc did, and he had a great time on his first-ever visit to England. Find out what you missed!
Get Stock Prices with Xojo by Marc Zeedar
There are web APIs for getting data on the Web, but sometimes data scrapping is easier. Marc demonstrates two methods of getting stock prices.
A Model For Health by JC Cruz
Jose shows how to design a proper data model for his previous Health Data project. He refactors the old code so you can see how to update an existing design.
Plus: Xojo 2017R3, disaster recovery, packaging Linux apps, scope, and more!
This new issue can be purchased and downloaded instantly via GumRoad (http://gum.co/BkFUX).
Other Products
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Also available on the xDev website are printed perfect-bound books of each of the magazine’s first 15 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.