At our next meeting, Richard King will introduce 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 will cover: Read more ›
Our next meeting will be on Monday 17th February.
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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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).
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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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).
The Brisbane meeting is on at the usual* time and place. See you there 🙂
Pizza and drinks will be available at cost; keep change handy ($2/piece, $0.50/glass).
Our Annual Symposium for 2019 was held on 21st March in Canberra and 22nd March in Melbourne.
Our Sponsors this year included:
