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Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.

Debugging Techniques, Part 1
Brian Long begins an occasional series on handy (and often innovative) debugging techniques that might help when things begin to go strangely wrong with your software.

Algorithms Alfresco: Dear Sir Or Madam
Julian Bucknall takes time out to answer some readers’ queries. Oh, and he has a confession to make about April’s column as well...

Building An MPEG Video Decoder: Part 2
Erik van Bilsen shows us how to read bits and variable length codes from a stream, so that we can extract the various types of MPEG-1 layers from an MPEG video file.

Beating The System: Exploring The IP Helper Library, Part 1
Dave Jewell shows how to make use of this handy Windows system DLL which can retrieve and modify network configuration settings, as well provide interesting network and performance statistics.

Borland Conference 2002
Malcolm Groves reports from Borland’s annual Californian bash: this year it was held in Anaheim and by all accounts was a bit of a .NET love-in!

Syntax Highlighting With RichEdit
Paul Warren explains how to add syntax highlighting capabilities to the RichEdit control, creating a very useful example for HTML and an HTML property editor.

Under Construction: Translating WebSnap
Bob Swart continues examining some real-world WebSnap techniques, this month creating localisation options: the ability to dynamically switch display languages within your WebSnap applications.

One Last Compile...
Just two numbers.

Review: Shell+ Version 1.0
Dave Jewell evaluates this new set of Delphi components from ShellPlus which allow you to integrate with the Windows shell. Not only can you create context menus for your custom file types, but a host of other useful shell extensions as well.

Review: Express Web Framework 1.0.3
Dave Jewell puts this new contender in the web application development stakes through its paces, created by those fearsomely productive folks at Developer Express. Does it now truly make web development a RAD process? See what Dave thinks.

The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including: BDE handle leaks, accessing the printer properties dialog, printer settings, and various uses for the RunDll32 system utility.