News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix.
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Calling Home
 Alfred Mirzagitov shows how to get your application to email you when it’s installed in the field on the user’s PC: ideal for relaying automated bug/crash reports, support requests and config files back to base. And all this without the need for an SMTP server, a copy of Outlook, or indeed any third-party software at all.
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Under Construction: Delphi 2005
Bob Swart reviews the latest version of Delphi, with both Win32 and .NET support in one IDE, plus C# as well as Delphi language compilation! Could this be the best ever Delphi? Check out Bob’s review and find out!
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I Saw Three Ships
Julian Bucknall meets an old friend while on holiday in Yorkshire and comes up with a nice little Christmas gift for good programmers everywhere: a handy code-commenting utility that demonstrates how to carry out text justification using a nifty dynamic programming algorithm.
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The Performance Data Helper API
Pedro Agulló Soliveres demonstrates how to get at all kinds of performance information provided by the Windows operating system (such as CPU usage per process, network usage, etc) in your own applications, by making use of the Performance Data Helper API thoughtfully provided by our friends in Redmond.
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The Command Pattern
Glenn Stephens explains that if you encapsulate the operations of your application into a class structure you have an implementation of the command pattern. You can then add some really powerful features which your hungry users will adore, including single-level and multiple-level undo and redo.
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Thread Pooling, The Practical Way
Primoz Gabrijelcic found out the hard way that the system thread pool in Windows is woefully inadequate, so he set about to rectify its shortcomings to rescue his project!
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Review: AlphaControls
John Braga wanted to see how easy and effective it was to add multiple skins to his applications, so he took the AlphaControls component suite from AlphaSkins for a test drive.
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Review: Code Metrics From Smart Bear Software
Richard Stevens evaluates an add-in which is designed to enhance the reporting capability of your source code management system’s archives, so you can analyse your development activity at  the drop of a hat!
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