If your customers are asking you about a “Mac” version of your existing Windows application, you may want to look at the new Embarcadero FireMonkey application development platform. FireMonkey makes it very easy to create great looking, native, compiled applications for Mac as well as for Windows. FireMonkey is a great way for building clients application with advanced GUI features like programmable effects and animations to your existing web services implemented with Microsoft Visual Studio 201...

If your customers are asking you about a “Mac” version of your existing Windows application, you may want to look at the new Embarcadero FireMonkey application development platform. FireMonkey makes it very easy to create great looking, native, compiled applications for Mac as well as for Windows. FireMonkey is a great way for building clients application with advanced GUI features like programmable effects and animations to your existing web services implemented with Microsoft Visual Studio 201...

The Rails 3.1 Release Candidate announcement contained news of many new and useful features, plus these regretful words: has_secure_password: Dead-simple BCrypt-based passwords. Now there’s no excuse not to roll your own authentication scheme. I will briefly provide an excuse. "Simple BCrypt-based passwords" is a reasonable feature, but shouldn't be mistaken for end-to-end authentication, or even a substantial subset of that problem. Web site authentication in the real world is a far harder...

One very popular option for implementing user security in ASP.NET is to use Forms Authentication with the SQL Server membership provider. This provider creates several database tables to store user-related information, as well as a number stored procedures. From time to time, a developer will attempt to add the ASP.NET Membership/Forms Authentication tables to their Entity Framework model (or LINQ to SQL, NHibernate, etc.) model. Before doing this, they will often have created referential con...

In the process of setting up my development environment on a new laptop, I was looking for a way to migrate my IIS7 configurations from the old laptop, so I didn't have to manually configure the many web applications and virtual directories required in my day to day development duties. As there was no obvious 'Export' or 'Import' options available, I asked my good friend Mr Google, who suggested this article. The steps outlined seemed pretty straightforward, and just what I was looking for. A f...

Nick had to wake up early today to do "A year in the Life of Delphi" webinar for Delphi developers from European timezone. It was excellent to hear some of the future directions of Delphi discussed. Of course these are only plans and "subjects to change without notice" but it gives the confidence in the future of Delphi. The year 2009 is going to be "transitional" for Delphi native compiler. Delphi Team is looking at completely new cross-compilation technology, the ability to target multiple bac...

I'm now watching another session from Cary Jensen on doing ASP.NET with Delphi Prism. Cary is doing great job! As much as I like watching Cary session I like chating in the CodeRage chat rooms. I bet everybody is looking forward to real, face to face conference next year. Here is a link that Anders posted a moment ago. I like the photo of David I:-)http://www.flickr.com/photos/xsirebeladdict/sets/72157605932369455/...

One of the really cool features in RAD Studio 2007 and ASP.NET 2.0 is the Web Parts components which allows the end user to edit and change the web designer of your web applications. Look at the video http://dn.codegear.com/article/37142 and download the source at CodeCentral...

Um dos mais fantásticos recursos em RAD Studio 2007 e ASP.NET 2.0, são os componentes Web Parts, o usuário final pode editar e alterar o designer das páginas web de sua aplicação. Veja o vídeo: http://dn.codegear.com/br/article/37142 e faça o download fontes no CodeCentral...

Uno de los inscríbeles recursos de RAD Studio 2007 y ASP.NET 2.0 son los componentes Web Parts, el usuario final puede editar y cambiar el diseño de las páginas web de su aplicación. Ver el video: http://dn.codegear.com/es/article/37142 y bajar los fuentes en CodeCentral...