Olaf’s Thoughts About Development

Don’t worry, I’m not going down the way of explaining maths theoretics here. I just want to show “WinDirStat” which is a nice tool, which helps fighting against the fact, that a hard disk (regardless how big) always tends to be 99% full. Read the rest of this entry »

Did you ever think about how to start a program on the client’s computer from within your Web application? Maybe a button that starts Window’s calculator?This is possible now – thanks to serious vulnerability in Firefox. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are doing cross border business in the European Union, then will have to deal with so called “VAT IDs”. I’ve written a small example how to validate VAT ID’s from a DElphi 2007 program. Read the rest of this entry »

Finally the long promised commenting system for my blog has been enabled. Read the rest of this entry »

In BCB 2007 the IntraWeb application wizard fails to create one file. This article provides an ISAPI application template project which you can use to start off your C++ Builder IntraWeb applications. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are using SSL with your IntraWeb Standalone applications, then you might consider allowing SSL version 3 only, as there are exploits for version 2 and below. This article describes how to limit your server to SSL version 3. Read the rest of this entry »