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{ Monthly Archives } April 2005

The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security — A Book in a Wiki

Keith Brown put the full text of his book The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security online in Wiki format. Despite the name, it contains useful information for both .NET and Win32 programmers.

InterBase at NASA

NASA’s Data Trending & Analysis System uses InterBase 5.6, as you can see from the screen shot.

IBConsole for Linux 1.1.0.28

The latest version of IBConsole for Linux is available from Jeff Overcash’s CodeCentral page.

Developer Express QuantumGrid Frustration

My latest irritation with the powerful, feature-drenched, complicated and occasionally hair-pullingly frustrating Developer Express QuantumGrid.

A Cause I Can Support

Bring Back Chris's Blog!

New Article: Practical Use of Long-Running Transactions

In Understanding Transaction Lifetimes I examined the internals of InterBase transactions focusing on the implications of their lifetimes (the period of time in which they are active). In this article I will give some simple advice for keeping your InterBase server happy in cases where you have decided that you need a long-running transaction.

Practical Use of Long-Running Transactions

In Understanding Transaction Lifetimes I examined the internals of InterBase transactions focusing on the implications of their lifetimes (the period of time in which they are active). In this article I will give some simple advice for keeping your InterBase server happy in cases where you have decided that you need a long-running transaction.

Another Performance Monitor Issue — Advice Sought

An IB Performance Monitor user reported the following bug to me. It’s a corner case, but I consider it a bug nonetheless. Please help me find the best solution.

IB Performance Monitor Bug

Andreano Lanusse of Borland Brazil alerted me to (and fixed!) a bug in the current version of IB Performance Monitor….

Alternatives to Deprecated Methods

Someone asked on the newsgroups what the alternatives were for string functions deprecated in Delphi for .NET, so I’ve started a wiki page listing alternatives to deprecated methods in the Delphi RTL. Please feel free to add your own entries!

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