January 2007

More on PDF – Jim Eadie

Jim started with PDF very early on when tools were limited but he persevered and using WPPDF provided a series of wrappers to achieve his reports. WPPDF comes as a DLL and provides the developer with a TCanvas object which is the PDF page.

AJAX – Alex Moss

We’d all heard of Ajax on the Web but what is it and how does it work? Alex researched it and explained that it is the use of the HTTP Request Object now provided with browsers to enable Java Script code functions to communicate with the server and transfer data. This means that you no longer need to download a whole new page to update your pages with live data.

Click here to get the presentation or get the full demo code here