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September 19, 2019

Select Join Optimization: Tag, You’re It

In Synergy Version 10.3.3, we added initial support for Join. You can find an article I wrote about Join back in the July 28, 2016, issue […]
June 18, 2019

Are You Doing Enough to Protect Your Applications and Data?

Industry changes are requiring application developers and IT administrators to up their security game There are already a crazy number of security threats to enterprise applications, […]
April 2, 2019

Discovering DevOps

As a reader of anything technical, you have likely heard the buzz about DevOps. You may already be familiar with this concept (in which case you […]
January 9, 2019

EditorConfig: The Key to Consistent Coding Style in Visual Studio

Tabs or spaces? Should tabs and indents be four spaces or eight? Should trailing whitespaces be trimmed? These are a few of the issues that coding […]
September 19, 2018

Installation Authoring and Testing Techniques

Everyone talks about how great our Synergy/DE products are and how much work we put into making sure they are the best representation of months—and sometimes […]
June 19, 2018

Taking Aim at the Credit Card Security Target

Trying to keep up with the latest online security recommendations can be a headache when your software has to handle credit card payments. It seems like […]
January 27, 2018

Select Performance AND Optimization OR Optimization

The Synergy/DE Select class is a very powerful tool, but if you’re not careful, it can be a performance bottleneck. One of the advantages of a […]
July 20, 2017

Don’t Pass the Buck to the Runtime!

The Synergex development team recently enhanced the Synergy/DE compiler to generate warnings for suspicious code that can result in runtime errors or bad data. In most […]
July 10, 2017

How Much Memory Does Your Sort Really Want?

The Synergy sort has always been a powerful language feature. However, as disk drives have gotten larger, so, too, have the files sorted. Files that used […]