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TAnything List And The Object Pool
Martin Humby has developed some techniques to allow the use of templates in Delphi, a concept used to good effect by our C++ cousins but hitherto out of bounds for us more enlightened Pascal developers.
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Lock-Free Data Structures
Julian Bucknall thinks we are all going to have to bite the bullet and get to grips with writing multithreaded applications. OK, OK, you can come out from under the table now, and please do stop that snivelling! Julian is here to help and discusses how to have thread safety without locking, thereby reducing a significant bottleneck in your applications. And it’s not really painful at all, so read on and explore...
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EnterpriseServices: Object Queuing
Pedro Agulló Soliveres explains how to use the .NET EnterpriseServices API to implement asynchronous communication with remote objects, thanks to object queuing courtesy of Microsoft Message Queue: refreshingly, it’s all rather easier than you might have thought!
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Unicode Controls: What Can VCL Do?
Sergey A Kryukov became frustrated with the inability of VCL controls to work with Unicode text, and more frustrated by the complexity of existing solutions to the problem! So he has developed a simple and straightforward way of implementing Unicode support for common VCL controls when a comprehensive solution is just too unwieldy.
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Under Construction: ASP.NET Techniques
Bob Swart describes some real-world ASP.NET techniques with Delphi 2005: using DataSync and DataHub, some enhancements in the DB Web controls, how to use the deployment manager, and lessons from migrating an IntraWeb 5.x application to ASP.NET.
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Book Review: The Best of Verity Stob by Verity Stob
Reviewed by Chris Frizelle.
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Review: PatchFactory 2.1.237
Craig Murphy checks out this patch file generator from AgenSoft which could make distributing upgrades to your apps a whole lot easier from now on!
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