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

Enforcing Strong Passwords Through Password Filters
The humble username and password combination is still the most widely-used method of securing systems against unauthorised access, but how often are very weak passwords chosen? Marcel van Brakel shows how to use a password filter DLL to ensure that only passwords conforming to your own set of rules are chosen by users.

Under Construction: DCon Planning With Delphi And ASP.NET
Bob Swart continues to work on his schedule-choosing web application for DCon 2003, but this time he’s using Delphi as an ASP.NET scripting language, courtesy of the Delphi for .NET preview compiler (and a lot of head scratching to work round the problems which came to light...).

Directing DirectX Part 2: It’s All In The Game
Erik van Bilsen continues his series on creating applications using DirectX by laying the groundwork for a maze game: discussing a maze generation algorithm, building classes to render the maze to the screen, and allowing the player to scroll through the maze.

Beating The System: Plug It In
Did you follow Dave Jewell’s article a while back on creating .NET components using the Delphi for .NET preview compiler? This month he updates the  code and shows how to integrate your components into Visual Studio.NET.

Asynchronous Calling
Berend de Boer explains what asynchronous calling is all about, how it can benefit your applications, and how to implement it for yourself using Microsoft Message Queue Server.

Delfhead Interview
Will Watts interviews Roy Woll of Woll2Woll Software, makers of the famous InfoPower library.

MT_DORB: Free CORBA For Delphi And Kylix
Jan Holst Jensen wants to shout about CORBA: he thinks it’s great, and now you can use it even with Delphi Personal Edition, courtesy of the free MT_DORB pakage: his article shows just how.

Algorithms Alfresco: Tommyknockers
Julian Bucknall says it’s time to don our hard hats for some data mining, using the ID3 algorithm: a neat way to make sense of vast volumes of data.

Reviewed: AQTime 3.0 From Automated QA
Dave Jewell checks out the latest version of this powerful and comprehensive profiling package.

The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi, including: font smoothing, Windows XP caption bars, Delphi 7 web deployment, and more on the FreeAndNil routine.