Books and Magazines

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The Tomes of Kylix - The Linux API guides developers through the fundamental Linux system calls and programming interfaces, covering the core aspects of Linux development from file processing and inter-process communication to threading issues and sockets. Each chapter focuses on a key Linux technology and provides an extensive reference to the relevant functions, along with a practical demonstration application. The Tomes of Kylix - The Linux API gives Kylix and Delphi developers an edge in creating robust real time Linux applications. 

Click here to order the book from Amazon.

Click here for the official The Tomes of Kylix - The Linux API home page 

Building Robust Web Components for Microsoft Internet Information Server 4 - March 1999 and April 1999

This was a two part series on Building ActiveX Server Objects in Delphi 3 before the ability to create ActiveX Server Objects using the Delphi wizards was introduced. The articles discussed the use of Active Server Pages, calling the internal objects such as Response, Request, Server,  Session, and Application. 

Part two dealt with Databases and ActiveX Server Objects, demonstrating the use of ADO and MTS. This section also looked at using Mail from an Active Server Object as well as some useful performance tips.

Enterprise Application Integration - April 2000

This Article dealt with the necessary steps to integrate software resources in a corporate environment, by examining the strategies required for software purchasing and managing internal software developments and products such as databases, ERP and middleware solutions .

Application Servers - May 2000

This product comparison examined many of the application servers currently on the market for Java and other platforms. Amongst the application servers reviewed were Inprise Application Server 4, BEA WebLogic, Microsoft Transaction Server, iPlanet and the Open Source Application Servers EJBoss and Enhydra.

Drawing on a data module at Design Time - September/October 1999

I wrote this short piece of code when someone at a local Delphi user group wanted to know how to draw on the TDatamodule at design time so that they could visually display the links between their custom components.

It also demonstrates the concept of hacking into the Delphi IDE at design time.

DAPUG was where I discovered that I really enjoyed writing and would often submit various articles on what I was working with at the time from Shell Extensions, Custom Components through to Speech Recognition.