Indy News - September 8, 2003

In this Issue

• Indy 10 news
• Indy.net
• IntraWeb discount
• Indy web forums now online
• New bug system
• Indy in Depth - New lower pricing!
• Upcoming conferences
• FAQ updated
• New demos
• IndyProject.org
• SpamAsassin troubles

Indy 10 News

Big news on the Indy 10 front! Indy 10 development has kicked into overdrive and development is progressing at a frightening pace. We are targeting a November release to coincide with BorCon US.

We have recently also split the Indy library into a third package called SuperCore. SuperCore now contains the advanced items such as IOCP and fibers. SuperCore will be developed separately and released later after Indy 10 is officially released. This allows us to keep the advanced portions separate to minimized units linked in to normal applications, but also makes unit testing easier for us and allowed us to move up the development schedule of Indy 10. The Indy 10 initial release will consist of Core and Protocols which contains everything that is included in Indy 9, as well as some additions.

Indy.net

In preparation for Delphi 8, Indy 10 will also support .net. This means that Indy 10 will be compatible and usable from Delphi 8, C# and Visual Basic.net.

IntraWeb Discount

Exclusive IntraWeb discount for Indy News subscribers! Those of you interested in IntraWeb know that it is not often discounted. If you have been waiting for a discount here is your chance. Exclusively for Indy News subscribers Atozed Software is offering IntraWeb at a 100 Euro discount! (approx $110).

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http://www.atozed.com/intraweb/

Web Forums

In addition to the Indy newsgroups, you can also use the new Indy web forums. The web forums are a web interface to the newsgroups and all messages appear in both systems.

Indy web forums:
http://www.atozed.com/indy/newsgroups.iwp

New Bug System

Unfortunately in the old system many users submitted technical support requests, duplicate bugs, bugs already fixed, poor quality reports, or bugs that were in user code. This created a very high level of noise and made it very difficult for the Indy team to find the valid reports without spending a lot of time filtering through the bad reports.

The old bug system at SourceForge has been disabled and taken offline. We have deployed a new bug system which has access controls on entry to limit and control the quality of bug reports into the system. The new bug system supports voting, "me too"ing and many other features which will help us prioritize and evaluate the quality of bug reports.

Currently only members of Indy Core and selected end users can enter bug reports. If you do not have access you should report bugs into our newsgroups where one of those who have access can pre screen your report and enter it if valid. Public users can access the bug system in read only mode to browse bugs, comments, and their status.

In the future we will also be opening more accounts in the bug system to end users once a reliable and efficient mechanism has been found for verifying users and limiting access to "quality" users.

Indy in Depth - New lower pricing!

Save 50% or more with new lower pricing on Indy in Depth! Indy in Depth is an e-book written by the Indy experts themselves. Indy in Depth covers from the very basic introduction to sockets, all the way up to advanced usage. Whether you are an absolute beginner and have never programmed sockets before, or you are an advanced socket developer, Indy in Depth has material suited for you.

Existing users will have their accounts extended according to the new scheme. There is also a major update in the works. Part of the update will be released this month, and the rest in October.

http://www.atozed.com/indy/book/newpricing.iwp

Upcoming Conferences

Entwickler Konferenz
http://www.entwicklerkonferenz.de/
September 24 - 25, 2003
Frankfurt, Germany

Developing Servers in Indy 10
Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
This session demonstrates how to use Indy servers in Indy 10, including the new high performance server options and models. This session will include the new server types: Winsock, Overlapped IO, IO completion ports (IOCP), Fibers, Contexts,

BorCon US
http://info.borland.com/conf2003/
November 1-5, 2003
San Jose, California, USA

Indy Complete - 4 hour preconference tutorial
Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Indy Complete is a complete overview of Indy 10 from basics to implementation, and even includes an overview of more advanced features. Whether you have never programmed Indy before, or you are familiar with Indy but want to learn more, Indy Complete is designed for you. If attendees have laptops with wireless cards, they should be brought so that they can participate in some of the demos.

Indy 10 Overview
Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Indy 10 provides many new features for implementing very high capacity servers and for advanced threading. This session covers these new features at the overview level and provides basic code examples as well.....

FAQ Updated

The Indy FAQ has been updated with several new items. The Indy FAQ is constantly updated with many commonly asked questions and should be consulted often.

New Demos

Two new demos have been released at the Indy Demo Playground.

• Minimal Web Server - Shows a the most basic implementation of a web server. For a more advanced implementation see the Eliza Web demo. Demonstrates TIdHTTPServer.
• Eliza Web - Updated and reposted - HTTP Server example demonstrating the popular Eliza psychotherapy algorithm with a twist. Implements not only Eliza, but additional personalities such as Bill Clinton, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, and Microsoft Technical Support as well. Microsoft Technical Support is so real, you will not be able to tell the difference. Demonstrates: TIdHTTPServer, Serving dynamic pages, Serving static pages, Session management.

IndyProject.org

The Indy project obtained this domain several months ago but many people are still not aware of it. Of course our old addresses still work, but next time you need the Indy web site, just remember http://www.IndyProject.org.

SpamAsassin Troubles

Unfortunately Indy's popularity has also been noticed by spammers. Because of this SpamAsassin has naively targeted the Indy library specifically. This causes any e-mail sent by Indy to be rejected by SpamAsassin in many cases. Indy 9 has undergone some minor changes (Available in the development snapshot) to reduce the chances of being rejected by more than 50%. Indy 10 has under gone even more changed to reduce the SpamAsassin score to 0 in most cases.

We hope that SpamAsassin in the future will target the spam and not the library. But the recent changes will make it very difficult if possible at all to identify the library.