The RunRev Developer Conference held in Las Vegas last May was a great success.

For those of you who couldn't attend, or those of you who wish you could enjoy it all over again, RunRev Ltd. is offering a DVD series of the RunRev conference sessions.

Perhaps the most important news at the RevCon was the announcement from RunRev Ltd. about a new web initiative which includes two parts: a browser plugin on the client side and a new enhanced server-side engine that lets you do many of the things you might do in PHP but with the grace and ease of Revolution's scripting language.

These are both still in development, and while it's still too early to give a release date for them we're very much looking forward to putting them to use the day they're available.

In the meantime, Revolution 3.0 has been released with a great many news features, not the least of which are the new gradient properties for graphic objects.

Version 3.5 has begun beta testing, and while we're not at liberty to discuss it publicly I can say it offers some very exciting new goodies. More on that later...

- Richard Gaskin
editor, revJournal

The Scripter's Scrapbook
Hugh Senior describes his incredibly feature-rich script library tool for cataloging and searching handlers.

The Reactor Lab
In this article Dr. Herz introduces The Reactor Lab, a framework for deploying Rev-based simulations over the Internet.

Commands and Private Handlers
This article by Sarah Reichelt shows you how to make the most of these two new scripting language features in Rev 2.8.1.

Let 'er RIP!
We've added a mirror here of the materials at the Rev Interoperability Group, established to explore ways to make it easier for both developers and users of Revolution plugins to have such tools work together gracefully.

Using Imported Images in Rev
Sandy Beadle
This helpful tutorial covers the basics of using imported images, including background images and blends.

Jacque Gay of HyperActive Software has released a new tool to help Revolution developers add a registration system to their software quickly, easily, and very affordably - from her site:

Zygodact provides an easy, automated way to add a complete registration serial key system to your Revolution standalone application or stack. With only a single line of code, Zygodact will check to see whether your application has been registered with a valid serial key. If not, it displays a dialog requesting a user ID and registration key. If your user cannot provide a valid registration, Zygodact gracefully shuts down your software, disallowing access.

Zygodact does all the work for you. It generates any number of customer serial keys for your application, and handles every aspect of requesting and tracking a valid software registration on your user’s computer.

The Zygodact registration system can be purchased through RevSelect, and is also available as part of a time-limited Megabundle offered by RunRev at a very compelling price.