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Bring RunRevLive to your den
This self-paced DVD set is a great way to teach yourself programming

Jon BerasgutaiAs some of you may know by now, the RunRevLive DVD box set is now available for purchase through our store, and on special offer until the end of the month. In the end, it ran to 8 discs and over 30 hours of jampacked information, screenshots and sessions from some of the most prominent experts in the Revolution field. If you want to learn how to program with Revolution, this DVD set is an invaluable aid.

To find out more about the creation of this masterpiece, I interviewed the man responsible for the filming and production, Jon Berastegui. Find out what he thinks about the whole experience.

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Build a Registration Scheme

In Part II of this tutorial, Mark SchonewilIe shows us how to create a simple interface for the registration scheme we made in Part I, how to save the user data to disk, and how to check whether the software has been registered when a new user session starts.

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Introducing SQLite Diff

This article answers the question, why might you need a SQLite comparison tool? Revolution's built-in revDB functionality supports the use of SQLite database files within Revolution projects. SQLite can be used as a fast and lightweight database engine useful for storing application preferences or even as the main data store for single-user applications.

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The Power of Sort

A few months ago we ran an article from Hugh Senior demonstrating how to do a custom sort based on a fixed list of values. This article takes up the theme and shows us several other ways to use sort.The technique of using a custom function with the sort command is very powerful; sorting by a value list is one of its most useful manifestations, but only one. Read on for more handy ways to use the technique.

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