News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
Development Of A dbExpress SQL Server 2000 Driver
Jani Järvinen explains how he developed a dbExpress driver for Microsoft
SQL Server: although not intended to be commercial-quality, this project
shows just what you need to do to create your own custom dbExpress drivers.
Algorithms Alfresco: Ask A Thousand Times
Julian Bucknall discusses word indexing and document searches: if you want
to know how Google works its magic this is the page to turn to.
One Last Compile...
Testing Times.
Making Web Controls Interactive
Paul Warren has been doing more work on enhanced visual controls for web
applications, this time making them interactive by making clever use of image maps.
Beating The System: The Real-Estate Expert
Dave Jewell presents the second part of his anarchist’s guide to writing
Delphi IDE plug-ins: doing it the effective, but unofficial, way!
Perspectives: C++’s Generic Secrets
What’s this? C++ in The Delphi Magazine? Harrumph! Fear not, gentle readers,
for Will Watts has a serious and important point to make about Delphi’s
current feature set and a needed enhancement.
The Iterator Pattern
Malcolm Groves describes the Iterator pattern: easy to implement for a diverse
range of collections, this design pattern can be extended to provide smart
filtering, update notification and a bunch of other useful things.
Under Construction: DataSnap Sockets And Interceptions
Bob Swart checks out socket interceptions: peeking into what’s happening
between the client and the server when you use the SocketConnection component. Bob
makes use of the IDataIntercept interface and the TPacketIntercept class.
Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started: Part 1
Rick Spence presents a slew of handy tips and hints picked up over the
years to make our development more productive: stuff we probably ought
to have learnt ages ago but somehow missed out on.
Review: Debugging Tools
Brian Long reviews a selection of debugging tools: Memory Sleuth 2.01, plus
CodeWatch from Sleuth QA Suite 2.04, both from TurboPower; as well as MemProof
Beta 0.942 and AQTime 2.0.1 from AutomatedQA. Which ones will cut the mustard
when it comes to finding a range of memory leaks?
The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi.