Synergy/DE 9.3 Articles and Blog Entries
This page provides links to Synergy-e-News articles and Synergy/DE blog entries about Synergy/DE 9.3 features.
An Ounce of Encryption is Worth a Pound of Cure - Part 2
April 14, 2010
In a world where sensitive and confidential information is stored and transferred daily, you need to have confidence that your data is secure. Synergy/DE 9.3 has new encryption capabilities that will enhance your application’s data security. In this series of articles, we’ll start by discussing network encryption for both xfServer and xfServerPlus, then move on to data encryption...
April 14, 2010
In a world where sensitive and confidential information is stored and transferred daily, you need to have confidence that your data is secure. Synergy/DE 9.3 has new encryption capabilities that will enhance your application’s data security. In this series of articles, we’ll start by discussing network encryption for both xfServer and xfServerPlus, then move on to data encryption...
An Ounce of Encryption is Worth a Pound of Cure
March 17, 2010
In a world where sensitive and confidential information is stored and transferred daily, you need to have confidence that your data is secure. Synergy/DE 9.3 has new encryption capabilities that will enhance your application’s data security. In this series of articles, we’ll start by discussing network encryption for both xfServer and xfServerPlus, then move on to data encryption...
March 17, 2010
In a world where sensitive and confidential information is stored and transferred daily, you need to have confidence that your data is secure. Synergy/DE 9.3 has new encryption capabilities that will enhance your application’s data security. In this series of articles, we’ll start by discussing network encryption for both xfServer and xfServerPlus, then move on to data encryption...
Controlling the User Installation Experience for Synergy/DE Products
Feb. 4, 2010
By default, the installation of a Synergy/DE product requires the user to interact with a number of dialogs before actually proceeding to the installation of the software. You may have a situation, such as deploying a Synergy application to a large number of systems or distributing Synergy/DE bundled with another application, where it would be advantageous to diminish or entirely remove end user interaction...
Feb. 4, 2010
By default, the installation of a Synergy/DE product requires the user to interact with a number of dialogs before actually proceeding to the installation of the software. You may have a situation, such as deploying a Synergy application to a large number of systems or distributing Synergy/DE bundled with another application, where it would be advantageous to diminish or entirely remove end user interaction...
New in Synergy/DE 9.3! Binary Prototypes: Speed up compiles and reduce dependencies
Jan. 19, 2010
In version 9 of the Synergy compiler, we introduced the concept of prototyping. Prototyping enables a developer to check calls against definitions of routines or classes. We have heard from many of our users that this feature alone found many bugs they didn’t even know they had in their code, catching bugs at compile time that may never otherwise have been discovered...
Jan. 19, 2010
In version 9 of the Synergy compiler, we introduced the concept of prototyping. Prototyping enables a developer to check calls against definitions of routines or classes. We have heard from many of our users that this feature alone found many bugs they didn’t even know they had in their code, catching bugs at compile time that may never otherwise have been discovered...
Productive Projects in Workbench 9.3
Dec. 17, 2009
Last month’s Workbench article (Workin’ It with Workbench 9.3) was really just a teaser of what’s in store for this new version of your Synergy Language IDE. Workbench has no shortage of enhancements and fixes. We’ve included a new version of SlickEdit, 64-bit toolset support, improved tagging performance of your object-oriented code, improved support for the .NET Component project, and a full set of project types and build options to allow for a more streamlined development process...
Dec. 17, 2009
Last month’s Workbench article (Workin’ It with Workbench 9.3) was really just a teaser of what’s in store for this new version of your Synergy Language IDE. Workbench has no shortage of enhancements and fixes. We’ve included a new version of SlickEdit, 64-bit toolset support, improved tagging performance of your object-oriented code, improved support for the .NET Component project, and a full set of project types and build options to allow for a more streamlined development process...
Workin’ It with Workbench 9.3
Nov. 12, 2009
With Synergy/DE 9.3 right around the corner, it’s time to give you a glimpse of the new features coming in Workbench. We’ve been hard at work building you a better development experience and enhancing your Synergy Language IDE…
Nov. 12, 2009
With Synergy/DE 9.3 right around the corner, it’s time to give you a glimpse of the new features coming in Workbench. We’ve been hard at work building you a better development experience and enhancing your Synergy Language IDE…
Wave Goodbye to the MDU
Nov. 12, 2009
If you have ever developed with xfServerPlus and xfNetLink then, like me, you may have a “love-hate” relationship with the Method Definition Utility (MDU). You love it because it is an enabling technology … it is one step in the process of extending your Synergy applications with all types of cool client applications. But at the same time you hate it … because it’s an inconvenience to have to remember to run up the utility and update the method catalog each time you want to add a new method, or change the interface of an existing one. Today, using the MDU is a “necessary evil”. It has served us well over the years, but things are about to get a whole lot better…
Nov. 12, 2009
If you have ever developed with xfServerPlus and xfNetLink then, like me, you may have a “love-hate” relationship with the Method Definition Utility (MDU). You love it because it is an enabling technology … it is one step in the process of extending your Synergy applications with all types of cool client applications. But at the same time you hate it … because it’s an inconvenience to have to remember to run up the utility and update the method catalog each time you want to add a new method, or change the interface of an existing one. Today, using the MDU is a “necessary evil”. It has served us well over the years, but things are about to get a whole lot better…
New select classes are a home run
Sept. 23, 2009
Early last week, I was given a copy of the beta build of Synergy/DE 9.3. My task was to do some testing of one the exciting new features it includes: The Select classes.
Now, testing isn’t always fun, and it can be frustrating trying to figure out if a bug is really a bug, or just a problem born of having no clue what I’m doing. This time, however, any minor problems I encountered were completely overshadowed by the sheer awesomeness of the new classes…
Sept. 23, 2009
Early last week, I was given a copy of the beta build of Synergy/DE 9.3. My task was to do some testing of one the exciting new features it includes: The Select classes.
Now, testing isn’t always fun, and it can be frustrating trying to figure out if a bug is really a bug, or just a problem born of having no clue what I’m doing. This time, however, any minor problems I encountered were completely overshadowed by the sheer awesomeness of the new classes…
