- InterBase/Firebird Development Studio 5.1.3. Database Designer. — There is an amazing integrated suite for working with Interbase and Firebird, obviously named InterBase/Firebird Development Studio. It is really brilliant in all of its aspects and components, but I want to speak about the «first between equals» — the Database Designer component. IB/FB Development Studio’s Database Designer is a many-sided crystal. It serves as: Full-fledged visual ER diagram…
- AscToHTM, Web Designers, Take a Rest! — What options do we normally have when it comes to posting a document online? Not much, really: a plain-text editor with the knowledge of HTML (a good bargain but with a bit of headache for the bonus), WYSIWYG HTML editor (a less achy solution that pulls cash out of our pocket) or… How about using a converter for that? Suppose, you have a plain-text file laid out in a certain format. You could just load…
- Web Form Anti-Spam 1.00, Don't Let 'em Any Chance! — Spam and other automated and unwanted messages are a pain. The most painful aspect of the problem is that there is no 100% reliable method to fight the spam completely. But the progress is moving on, and today there are some hope-giving approaches; one of them is «do not let spammers know your contacts». But, if spammers can’t know them, how can others contact you? The trick is: professional spammers…
- 10 Applications MyDB 2.0, Data is Always With Me — Writable CD and DVD disks just couldn’t have become our main media. Several years later, a USB stick could. Now, willing always to be able to work with your data, you shouldn’t have these heavy and expensive notebooks or not-so-handy handhelds. You are just carrying around your data on a small memory stick and any computer on the way can suit you as a workplace. But in fact, it is not that easy…
- AlphaControls - adding fashion to your applications has never been easier — As a developer, you should be primarily concerned with the functionality of your application and its stability in different conditions. As a smart developer, you should also be concerned with the appearance of your products. This important factor often becomes the final incentive that makes people choose a specific product among dozens of identical ones. Therefore, creating applications with style and beauty in mind is a great…
- Process Lasso - an efficient way of harnessing applications that have gone wild — Despite the fact the multi-core processors and their amazing performance are winning the market, there are situations when even a small process can make these amazingly fast number-crunchers kneel and bring your work almost to a complete halt. If you would like to avoid such situations and make sure that your system will be up and running under any load, check out Process Lasso right away! Process Lasso is based on a unique proprietary…
- EControl Form Designer Pro - a reliable aide that will always help you out with form creation — If you are a professional developer working on a complex application, such as a SCADA tool, an extensible data management solution or an engineering suite, you may need to implement form design functionality that will allow users create their own forms right within your software. Creating such features from scratch is a task of tremendous complexity; therefore you may want to try EControl Form Designer Pro —…
- OLEDB Direct - a great set of COM interfaces for database-driven applications — When you are creating a database-driven application, interaction with the database becomes one of the key pieces of the overall functionality that requires significant time to implement. If you are using multiple data sources, this task becomes even more complex due to the complexity of database connections and related routines. That is the exactly the case when a universal database interface would come very handy. If you are exploring the…
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