News
Keep up with all that’s new in the world of Delphi and Kylix development.
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POPsicle: An Indy Mail Checker
Hadi Hariri builds an email checker which you can use to preview your mailbox
for huge, nasty or unwanted messages without downloading them, as a demonstration
of Indy’s POP3 capabilities.
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Job Objects
Marcel van Brakel unravels Win32 job objects, which allow you to group a
set of processes and administer them as a single entity: placing restrictions
on them, monitoring them, and killing them all with just a single shot.
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Delfhead Interview
Will Watts interviews Allan Mertner of Virtual Pascal to discover where this
free Delphi-compatible Pascal compiler is headed.
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MMC Snap-Ins For Windows Server 2003
Jani Järvinen shows how, with a little COM programming, you can develop
your own extensions, called snap-ins, to the Microsoft Management Console
(MMC), which is used in Windows 2000, 2003 and XP to present a common user
interface for most of the typical management tasks you’d want to perform.
This opens the door to having the management apsects of your own software
systems equipped with an already-familiar standard interface.
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Fun With Threads
Steven Soroka demonstrates some practical tips to make threading in your
applications more efficient.
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Under Construction: Automatic RSS Content Generation
Bob Swart focuses on RSS channels and automatic feeds. He explains what RSS
is, how it can be of benefit to RSS readers as well as the publishers, and
(specifically in this issue) how to automatically produce RSS XML documents
from a database, resulting in a database-driven content generator with an
RSS channel to publish a table of contents.
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Lessons Learned In Using The VCL
Sascha Frick says this is not another ‘how to use the VCL’ article, but
a look at some aspects of the VCL from the point of view of object-oriented
software design, to see what we can learn about building better, more maintainable,
applications.
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Review: Inno Setup
Rob Bracken checks out a freeware installation builder: could it really
replace those huge and expensive commercial products?
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Review: Dimeric Rinse
Craig Murphy evaluates the Rinse distributed application framework for
Delphi from Dimeric Software that offers a means of building multi-tier
client/server applications via the use of remote interfaces in Delphi.
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The Delphi Clinic
Brian Long with more answers to your queries on Kylix and Delphi.
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