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After a long period of no updates I just wanted to assure you that BentoUsers has not been abandoned and the lack of activity recently has simply been due to an excessive amount of work. In addition to teaching myself Cocoa so that we can start producing applications for OS X at work I also attended WWDC in San Francisco in the first half of June which was a fantastic week where I not only learnt a lot about Mac software development but I also managed to meet some of the FileMaker Inc. team behind Bento.

Normal service will be resumed shortly with lots of new tips and articles planned.

Apologies for the recent silence which has been due to two doing two fairly time-consuming tasks.

1. I have been developing a small application which allows you to manage and work with several bentodb files. This means that it is now fairly easy to swap between data files so you can effectively split your Libraries into different files.
2. I have been writing our first tutorial guide for Bento. This is the first in what I hope will be an on-going series of guides which take real-world examples of how Bento is used and explains the theory behind the design. The tutorials are provided as both a PDF document and an accompanying example file. If you have any ideas or requests for future tutorials then please get in touch or leave a comment below.

Hopefully both of these will become available on the site within the next day or two and once they have been completed the addition of new tips and articles should be back up to a fairly steady pace.

We are going to try out having a public iChat address so that people can ask a quick question or just say hi. However this really is a trial thing and we’re not sure how well it will work, how much we’ll be on-line and available and how busy it will be. If you do see us on-line and try to initiate a chat but are ignored then please don’t be offended, it probably means that we’re chatting to someone else or grabbing a coffee.

Anyway, the iChat username is ‘bentousers’ but please note that the associated .mac email address will not be checked or used so please don’t send any mail there.

Index pages for each of the categories have been created and these should make it easier to browse the articles available on the site.

The main index page is available from the top menu and this page provides links to each of the category index pages.