xDev Magazine 24.5

The September/October (24.5) issue of xDev Magazine is now available. Here's a quick preview of what's inside:

TF-Luna LiDAR Range Sensor by Eugene Dakin
You can't have too many ways to measure things. After demonstrating sonar distance measurement, Eugene shows how to use the TF-Luna LiDAR range sensor with Raspberry Pi and Xojo to do the same thing with LiDAR.

Breaking Bunny by Marc Zeedar
Marc recently discovered anti-bot software called Bunny Shield was stopping his Xojo app, Comic Downloader, from data scraping a comics website. A discussion with ChatGPT led to a simple solution, using an HTMLViewer control instead of URLConnection to download the page's HTML.

Locked Down—Part 2 by William O'Keefe
In part 2 of his new encryption series, "The Right Way to Get It Wrong," William shows how Xojo encryption code that seems correct and works doesn't create truly secure encryption if you aren't doing everything exactly right. He demonstrates several ways you can get encryption wrong and how to do it the right way.

Plus: Pragmatic programming, DesktopGrid control, MBS SQL, and more!