News from Sustaining Members

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MicroAPL Ltd¶

Following the release earlier this year of APLX Version 2.0, we now have a new-look website which includes more technical information on APLX and a new facility for buying APLX on-line for electronic download. This has proved very popular, particularly for upgrades. Because this method lowers our administrative costs, we are able to pass on savings to our customers in lower prices, in line with our goal of making APLX the most cost-effective APL system for all the major platforms.

We are also adding a new APL resource section to our website, with technical notes, utility workspaces, and links to approved APL partners. This will be rolled out progressively over the next couple of months, and will include contributions from third parties as well as from our own staff. Two items which will be of particular interest to many users are notes on how to access web pages from APLX for Windows, and how to interface APLX for Linux to the very widely-used Apache open-source web server. The second of these provides a very simple way of serving dynamic content from your APLX applications in standard web pages, without having to be concerned with the details of HTTP protocols. Apache will handle all aspects of communicating with the remote web browser, including multiple simultaneous connections, error handling, security checking, keeping a log of pages visited, etc. Your APLX application is notified via the standard CGI interface when some dynamic content (such as a price quotation) is required in the page returned to the browser.

For more details, please visit http://www.microapl.co.uk/apl