RBD 8.4 ("Particle Collisions")

* Your Hourly Rate * by Christian Schmitz How much should you charge for your development skills? Christian explains how to calculate your hourly rate.

* Third-Party Tools: MBS Updater Kit * by Christian Schmitz Christian demonstrates his MBS Updater Kit plugin which adds cross-platform self-updating capability to your REALbasic applications.

* Dropwords, Part 2 * by Marc Zeedar Marc finishes his tutorial of building a fun word game, step-by-step. In this lesson, we cover animation, undo, a custom drawing subclass, and polishing.

* Making Hash * by JC Cruz If you don't know hash from hashish, then this article will explain how to create and use hash functions and how to deal with collisions.

* Fun with Particles * by Jens Bendig Jens reveals an interesting technique for efficiently calculating the collisions of particles. This is useful for scientific modeling, as well as games.

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