History

2010

• DXSock Version 6.0 Announced, supporting OpenSSL, Free Pascal Compiler, Cross-Platform (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X). Supporting Delphi 3 through Delphi 2009, Free Pascal 2.x, C Math parser error: Expected expression. Position in string:9

2009

• Internal Build of 6.0 is used to write a multi-tier FTP solution. Middleware solution supports DB2 via unixODBC on RedHat. Front-end, implemented SSL/TLS sessions for Secure FTP, pulling Certs from the middleware server -- avoiding potential security risk of having keys on the front server.

2008

• Code design was ported to Mac OS X, Ubuntu, CentOS and RedHat, OpenSolaris. Doing serious testing as the code implements self-thread management outside all compilers. Implemented POSIX Threads where possible.

2007

• DXSock 5.6, fixing issues in the 5.5 code when trying to port away from the 2002 release of Kylix 3 to Free Pascal Compiler. Experimented with Cross-Kylix, getting excited by the potential to keep the existing Kylix users alive while we focus on an FPC edition.

2006

• DXSock 5.5, introduces features for a RIA application being built for CODY Computers, Inc. This application mixes AJAX, our Winshock Web Server and DOMAPI to produce over 10 screens of their existing application working in a browser. Firefox DOM makes a perfect solution, Internet Explorer however, is a problem child as IE 5.5 and IE 6.0 render the objects differently (from each other).

2005

• DXSock 5.0, new web site using "Hawaii 5 Oh" theme to promote the largest socket suite release for any compiler on the market. With over 150 working Protocol Implementation, 200+ add-ons - this feels like the best TCP suite we have every released. Implemented suggested fixes from a customer to support Delphi 2005.

2004

• Redesigned the UDP side of the code, handling over 4 million packets a second. We helped convert one of the UK's largest DNS hosting companies to our Socket Suite. Using Delphi 7.0 and all of our newly redesigned 32bit Assembly. This version is much faster than any other product on the market and we decide that 2005 will introduce the product as 5.0.

2003

• Tied in litigation with Borland over their threats against us as part of Dionysus, causing us to freeze all development. Developer Express and Brain Patchwork DX, LLC. start researching alternatives to the Borland market. We start evaluating Free Pascal Compiler and Microsoft's Visual Studio. DXSock 4.5 is updated to support Delphi 7.0 - the last Delphi edition we will support for the next 7 years.

2002

• March 14th we start working for our customer CODY Computer Systems, Inc. Redesigning the upcoming DXSock 4.0 to work on mobile devices used in Police Cars. We are involved in Dionysus with 12 other component vendors, and we build the official web server for Developer Express' EWF (ExpressWeb Framework). Kylix 3 is finally released, but we hear rumors from Borland that they are hurting and dropping the product line.

2001

• Kylix is officially made public, our partnership with ASTA is coming to an end (Steve leaves all of our booth equipment in Europe of a Borland Conference we could not attend). Delphi 6 introduces new threading bugs, so we spend the year designing our own threading code to be agnostic of Delphi. We partner with Anthony of Apollo Database for Delphi to merge our socket suite into their solution and an upcoming video conference product. Partnership with Federico is terminated in October. Chad rears his head in the newsgroups raising hell because of our benchmark tests show how poorly the new INDY code performs. Shows our old Winshoes product was much faster. Again, he spouts a challenge, which we meet and exceed - "If your socket suite is so good, why don't you run your own web server?"... Winshock is born!

2000

• We partner with ASTA providing developers with a turn-key Middleware and Robust Socket suite. Our Enterprise edition sells are through the roof. We outsource to an off-shore development group to port DXSock v3.0 to Java, C Math parser error: Expected expression. Position in string:5
See Also History November 2000