Melbourne Meeting – March 2020

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Monday 16th March at 6 for 6:15pm start.

MEETING GOING ONLINE – WE WILL NOT BE MEETING IN PERSON

We will not be meeting at the Shed tonight!
Instead, we will have the meeting online. We will send out details about how to join us later in the day.
We plan to open the connection around 6:00pm and start the meeting at 6:15pm.

We will start the meeting with some time for a “Public Soap Box” where attendees can ask questions, share discoveries or talk about code.
At our next meeting, Geoffrey Smith will give us an introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Then John McDonald will show how to use Regular Expressions in a Delphi Program. Regular Expressions can be used in Delphi to validate text, parse text, extract data, and replace or reformat text data. Read more ›

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Melbourne Meeting – February 2020

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Monday 17th February.

At this meeting, Richard King introduced us to Lazarus and FreePascal.

If you’re interested in a cross-platform alternative to Delphi, or you are concerned about Embarcadero’s redefinition of perpetual, you should take a look at FreePascal.

Richard’s presentation covered: Read more ›

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No Melbourne Meeting – January 2020

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As our venue is unavailable, our January monthly has been cancelled.

Our next meeting will be on Monday 17th February.

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Melbourne Meeting – December 2019

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Monday 16th December.

At our December meeting, Roger Plant showed us Registration-Free COM. This allows a program to access a COM server without the server being registered in the Registry. You can use either a custom manifest, or an external manifest.

Then Brian Watson described his experiences setting up and using Azure virtual machines, and how to use Azure without incurring large bills. This lead to discussion about alternatives to Azure.
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Brisbane Meeting – December 2019

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Wednesday December 11th at 5:30pm to 9pm.

The Brisbane meeting is on at the usual* time and place. See you there 🙂

For the last meeting of the year, we have a double treat for you:

– Andrew will have a short “Apple Business to Business (sandboxed appstore stuff)” how-to presentation

– Eivind will give an introduction on how to use Delphi to develop Linux applications, without requiring a VM or separate machine with Linux installed.

Pizza and drinks will be available at cost; keep change handy ($2/piece, $0.50/glass).

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Melbourne Meeting – November 2019

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Monday 18th November.

At this meeting, Robert Horbury-Smith showed us how to use a Mormot server with a Delphi and an Elevate WebBuilder front-end.

His presentation centered on building and consuming a mORMot HTTPServer using a Service Oriented Architecture.
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Brisbane Meeting – November 2019

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Wednesday November 13th at 5:30pm to 9pm.

The Brisbane meeting is on at the usual* time and place. See you there 🙂

We have a treat for you on the night: Glen Kleidon will give a remote presentation on his Arpy framework!

=== The blurb ===

Arpy is a framework for creating secure web servers. It uses the same highly
flexible, modern approach popularised in NodeJs and .Net Core abstracting
out the server complexity allowing the developer to focus on the business
logic.

The presentation will cover:

Up and running with Arpy.
– Very brief intro to the Arpy Documentation – where to find what you need
– “Installing” Arpy: from GetIt or direct from the resources and how that
is different to how things are traditionally installed
– How and why to use the Arpy Web Api Project
– How and why to use Arpy Web Site Project
=== … ===

Pizza and drinks will be available at cost; keep change handy ($2/piece, $0.50/glass).

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