- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls… Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .Net, there is Java, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- Business Applications Architect. Availability, Flexibility, Mobility and Security — It’s a well-known fact that the key areas of database functionality, claimed by end-users, are data access, presentation, update, and validation. Dealing with all these could be a real problem even for a professional programmer, not to mention an inexperienced user. What can really help you to get things done is brilliant software, Business Applications Architect. BA Architect is a solution that offers much more than…
- GetByMail 2.0, Mail Rules! — E-mail is the most basic, old, common and reliable way of Internet communication (in fact, e-mail is even older than the Internet itself). There are also many situations, where e-mail is almost the ONLY way of communication available. But if I say: «Having just e-mail is enough for living!» — What would you think? I’m telling you: even when you need extremely complex operations with remote computer (upload…
- 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…
- XP Tools 7.76, Rule Over Your Windows! — When you’re trying to enchance and control your Windows, you have many options and utilities. The two most common extremes are «one utility for each single function» and «a suite for all service tasks». XP Tools software follows the second approach, and I should say it does the best in the logical organization and effective control. Let’s take a short guide through XP Tools and its usage patterns. The program…
- CC File Transfer, File Exchange Made Easy — Doesn’t it drive you crazy that to just swap a few files with your friends you’d have to be a computer expert, capable of deploying a file server, handling permissions settings, comprehending a lot of stuff you’re likely to never use afterwards? How about just uploading the files you want to exchange through your web browser and downloading your friends’ files just the way you’d normally…
- AA Mail Server, Be Your Own Email Service Provider — No matter how hard you try to set up a hosted email service the way you want it to be, chances are that you’ll end up compromising your demands, for it’s hardly possible to have someone do things the way you want them be done. If you want to take control over your email communications, fire up your own email server, and yet not spend much time dealing with low-level technical issues, take a note…
- 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…
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