Archive for May, 2001

Shared-Risk Pricing

Monday, May 28th, 2001

In any development project, there are well-known risks:

Risk that the scope will be underestimated at the start increase
Risk that the scope will increase over time (not always a bad thing
- often a client discovers that additional functionality would deliver
[…]

Web Services

Thursday, May 10th, 2001

There has been a lot of buzz recently about "Web Services". A short examination shows that essentially a web services is an RPC (remote procedure call), generally across the internet, using SOAP/XML over HTTP.
RPCs are nothing new - so […]

Windows Clients, Java Servers

Tuesday, May 1st, 2001

Problem / Scenario:
You have server code in Java implementing business logic, or you want to have such code. Java is your strategic choice.
But… you have a need for a client application that will be a native […]

Delphi Resources

Tuesday, May 1st, 2001

Pure Technologies offer open-source PureSOAP,
which looks like a good way to use SOAP from Delphi, without require the
Enterprise edition of Delphi 6. Another good approach for this is to use
Microsoft’s SOAP […]

Grid Components for Delphi

Tuesday, May 1st, 2001

This list of Grid components available for Delphi. is originally from a Usenet post by Anthony Richardson (anthony_r at sageautomation.com). I’ve added more since then.
The following is a list of Third-Party Grid suppliers:
SpreadSheets:
TAdvSpreadGrid - http://www.tmssoftware.com/
TSpread - http://www.jt.w1.com/products.htm
TSpreadSheet - http://www.uniyar.ac.ru/~dimak/delphi/spread.shtml
THyperSpreadsheet - http://www.pablop.demon.co.uk/
Non-DataAware:
InfoPower - http://www.woll2woll.com/infopower/
Top Grid - http://www.objectsight.com/
TAdvStringGrid - http://www.tmssoftware.com/
TStringAlignGrid - http://www.hoerstemeier.com/
(Free)
TSMTableGrid - http://www.sunsoft.ru/
THyperGrid - http://www.pablop.demon.co.uk/
TCoolStringGrid […]

Java / EJB

Tuesday, May 1st, 2001

Java on Linux
Want to run Java on Linux? I suggest the IBM JDK 1.3 for Linux; I’ve been working with it (on this server, in fact) with good results.
Java Web Applications
In the world of Java web application program, the […]