News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development, plus early news of ‘Delphi.NET’.

WebBroker On Steroids
Hallvard Vassbotn likes WebBroker, but in its out-of-the-box form it just didn’t offer the performance he needed for an important financial application. So, he set to work to produce a leaner, fitter, awesomely fast version: WebBroker on steroids! There’s much more too in this exciting update that you will not want to miss if you are serious about web applications.

Beating The System: Fun With OpenGL
Dave Jewell gives insights into the OpenGL graphics library and what it can do for your applications, demonstrating that it’s not as difficult as you might think (and it isn’t all chocolate teapots, either!).

Algorithms Alfresco: Genetic Algorithms
Julian Bucknall explains what genetic algorithms are and how to use them in practice.

Getting Started With Windows Audio
Peter Morris shows how to get started with Windows audio in your applications.

Perspectives: Perspectives.NET
In this occasional column, Dave Jewell takes a look at Microsoft’s new Visual Studio .NET product. What can we learn from it? What does it do better than Delphi? What might we see in the forthcoming .NET-capable Delphi? Tune in and find out.

Under Construction: Real-World WebSnap Techniques
Bob Swart discusses some real-world WebSnap techniques he has discovered in his web application development, including user logins, DataSetAdapter naming conventions, BDE hints and using Amazon’s XML support.

One Last Compile...
Flirting with a bit on the side.

Building Your Own MPEG Video Decoder: MPEG Overview
Erik van Bilsen starts off a series all about building your own MPEG video decoder in Delphi; this month he is laying the essential groundwork by demystifying the terminology and technology behind MPEG.

Review: Billenium Effects
Dave Jewell reviews the Billenium Effects component suite from Billenium Software, which provides some interesting form container and transition effects: could this be the way to create your competitor to PowerPoint?

The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including listbox scroll bars, creating ODBC datasource names in code, dynamic object creation, drag and drop, how to work with the Internet Information Services metabase, exported package routines and thread termination.