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Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
Preparing For A Terminal Server Environment
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Jani Järvinen describes how you should prepare your software to work with
Microsoft Terminal Services, the remote access system which allows running
of applications on the server, only transferring the user interface to
the client. A smooth user experience needs special awareness from the software
developer: Jani tells us all how to deliver that smooth user experience!
Under Construction: Delphi 6 Web Services: SOAP
Web Services is very much the buzz phrase of today and this month Bob Swart
shows how to use the new SOAP capabilities of Delphi 6 to create your very
own Web Services as easy as pie.
Hackers 101
Jason Southwell discusses web security: how to write applications that
react appropriately to hacker attacks. He explains how a hacker tries to
take control of your code and how to write code in your apps to block these
attacks.
Algorithms Alfresco: Squeeze, Please
Julian Bucknall returns to the subject of data compression with a new technique
which makes use of the rather ingenious Burrows-Wheeler transform to get
extra performance out of Huffman encoding.
Dynamic Web Images With Kylix
Bob Swart shows how to create images on the fly from databases in Kylix
CGI applications using Kylix Desktop.
One Last Compile...
Bad news from DCon
Beating The System: Strings Unstrung
Dave Jewell wants to put strings to bed: specifically how Delphi implements long strings and the ramifications of this for your own code.
Perspectives: Microsoft TechEd 2001
Chris Frizelle reports back from Microsoft’s annual techno-bash. This year
your intrepid Editor braved squid and octopus by the bucket-load in sunny
Barcelona to bring you the latest on what is setting hearts a-flutter back
in Redmond at MS HQ.
Review: Titanium 2.0
Dave Jewell checks out this new software security package from BitArts:
is it truly uncrackable, will it genuinely increase your software sales
revenues? Dave has the answers.
Review: GExperts 1.0
Primoz Gabrijelcic evaluates this freeware package of add-in experts for
Delphi to see if it really will make your development work easier and smoother.
The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including:
an apparent bug with global variable initialisation, strange things happening
with record properties, how to destroy components safely, plus Word and
Excel automation queries.