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

Delphi Futures
Editor Chris Frizelle reports on an open letter to the Delphi community from Borland’s Simon Thornhill.

Profiling The XML DOM And The SAX Model
Craig Murphy benchmarks Microsoft’s MSXML processing models: the Simple API for XML (SAX) and the Document Object Model (DOM), in particular the memory and CPU usage for these models, using both small and large XML documents. Some of the results are less than obvious and may raise concerns about using the DOM in certain demanding scenarios.

Under Construction: Delphi For .NET, ODBC.NET, ADO.NET And MySQL
Bob Swart shows how to use MySQL with the Delphi for .NET preview compiler, through both ODBC.NET and (for greater performance, but at a cost of some cash!) ADO.NET.

Speech Support In Delphi Applications: Part 3
Brian Long wraps up his series on speech support (for now anyway) by demonstrating how to use the Microsoft APIs to build speech recognition capabilities into your own software.

Winlogon Notification Packages
Marcel van Brakel explains how to use Winlogon Notification Packages to do a variety of useful things when a user logs on to a system (such as launching a specific application), responding to a range of Winlogon events.

Beating The System: Windows Desktop Taming, Going A Little Mad
Dave Jewell returns to the subject of manipulating the icons on the Windows desktop, this time making use of a low-level component from the madCollection suite which tidies things up no end.

Delfhead At Large
The other conference

Taking A Dip...
Jason Southwell shows how pooling can be used in a number of situations with server-side applications to improve performance, and presents a common pooling class which you can put to use in your own software.

Creating Custom Windows Event Logs
Dennis Passmore explains what is involved in creating custom event logs and why they will come in handy to monitor your applications.

Reviewed: Ghost Installer Studio Pro 3.5
Dave Jewell checks out this comprehensive installer from GInstall: is it man enough to give the big boys a run for their money?

The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your own queries on Kylix and Delphi.