Who purchased the Delphi you use?

Inspired by a recent question by Bruce McGee in the Delphi non-tech forum, here are a couple of mini-polls.

Who purchase the Delphi you use?

Do you use Delphi for work, hobby or both?

Globals Storages in DWScript

DWScript has a “Globals” facility that allows storing and sharing data across scripts living in the same executable.

The first are Global Vars, and is a Key-Value storage, the second are Global Queues, which are LIFO/FIFO named queues. Both are thread-safe and high performance.

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Launching fractals.dwscript.net

$fractals.dwscript.net$ Happy new Year to all!

The fractals.dwscript.net is now launched to host the results of the recent Mandelbrot TeraPixel experiment. It’s a small website to centralizes browser, documentations, links and downloads.

There was also news of a FireMonkey client for the data set API.

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And the Terapixel Became Four

The Christmas Mandelbrot Experiment ~~is now nearing~~ has achieved completion of Level 13, or a Four Terapixel image!

This will be the end of the experiment (at least temporarily) as the server is running out of storage space 🙂

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A Terapixel Image for the DelphiWebScript Christmas!

As a step up from the previous Mandelbrot Set explorer, I’m running a Terapixel image experience for DWScript Christmas 2013.

This is again on the Mandelbrot set, and involves a massive step up in complexity from the previous version, this one isn’t just server-side computed, it’s “Grid Computed” 🙂 (more…)

Slim Reader/Writer Locks Rock!

I recently posted abut the new Slim R/W Locks introduced with Vista, and how they were vastly more efficient than TMREWS.

Apparently, they’re also more efficient than Critical Sections…

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Setting up SSL for DWScript Web Server

Setting up an SSL with DWScript Web Server (and other http.sys services like mORMot) is simple, and it’s cheap, free even thanks to StartCOM. Encryption is also pretty darn fast on recent Windows server versions.