Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 89, January 2003



		Contents, The Delphi Magazine Issue 89, January 2003 News Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development. Delphi And MSMQ, Part 2 Malcolm Groves returns to the subject of Microsoft Message Queue, covering transactions, error handling and dead letter queues, with a practical example to wrap things up. Algorithms Alfresco: Look Sharp! Julian Bucknall takes a slight digression from his normal algorithmic path to talk about user interface design: taking a realistic example and working through some decisions, guidelines and ideas to make the user interface consistent, intuitive and thereby easier to use. Perspectives: Writing Better Programs, The Story So Far As long as there’s been programming, there’s been dissatisfaction with the way it’s been done. So Richard Stevens sweeps through several decades of the software development story to give his view on what works, and what doesn’t. Building An MPEG Video Decoder: Final Part Erik van Bilsen wraps up his series by using MMX assembler instructions to optimise some of the key areas of his decoder, demonstrating the significant improvements in performance to be gained by targeted tweaking! Under Construction: Delphi, dbExpress And MySQL, On The Web Bob Swart takes the MySQL knowledge gained in last month’s column and applies it to web app development. Beating The System: Adding Auto-Persistence Capabilities To Your Options Dialogs Dave Jewell shows how to avoid the pain of recoding the saving and restoring of your user-configurable settings for each and every new application, with a little bit of lateral thinking. Exception Safety Pedro Agulló Soliveres shows how to write robust code by paying proper attention to exception safety. One Last Compile... Anti-New Year’s Resolutions. Review: It’s A Mad, Mad World... Dave Jewell checks out the madCollection from madshi.net. Review: LMD Tools 6.12 Dave Jewell passes his critical eye over the latest version of LMD Tools from LMD Innovative. Correction To Writing A Simple OLE DB Driver Pedro Agulló Soliveres updates his article from Issue 87. The Delphi Clinic Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi.

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