revServer Techniques
Learn about de-bugging your server scripts using Firebug, plus a bonus app to view World Cup photos from a live RSS feed.

RevServer is a wonderful technology. It enables us, Rev Developers, to use our familiar English-like programming language to easily create web applications in the blink of an eye, but what happens when things don’t behave as expected? It turns out that debugging web applications is not as trivial as debugging desktop applications. For those on the marvelous On-Rev service, debugging web apps is as easy as debugging desktop applications because those fortunate souls have access to the On-Rev client with its desktop class visual debugger, but those that just bought and installed RevServer on their Macs and Linuxes, how should they proceed? This article hopes to present some of tools and tricks you can use while debugging RevServer applications without the aid of the visual debugger from On-Rev.

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Getting a Rev App into the AppUp Store

Follow this case study for the amusing Xplorer game made by baKno to see how and why you might publish your App to the Intel AppUp store. Step by step instructions.

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NativeGeometry: Get Strict

Read about the newly launched NativeGeometry add on for Rev. What is a strict geometry manager and why do you need one? Get your UI looking really professional in all situations with this handy revSelect add-on.

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Create an 8-Puzzle Game

Spend an afternoon creating this classic puzzle for yourself in Rev. This tutorial includes all the code you need to create your own brain-teaser, and next time we'll show you how to use Rev to solve it as well!

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