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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
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.