We will meet online, instead of meeting at the Shed.
Grahame Grieve from Health Intersections will present on the travails of writing real world applications for Windows + OSX using Delphi + firemonkey.
We will open the connection around 6:00pm and start the meeting at 6:15pm. We won’t have a coffee break, and will finish by 8:00pm. Read more ›
We met online, instead of meeting at the Shed.
Anil Krishnan from Aerion Technologies presented on Database Performance Tuning.
We looked into the index internals (Not a deep dive). Index is one of the most important things that one should look into for Performance Tuning of their SQL Server DBs (or any database – we will look at SQL Server here). And its not just about creating them, one needs to take into account a lot of factors before designing an effective index.
This session provided some insights to help us to implement better indexes.
Then Brian Watson from Desktop EDA presented on Making a program go faster with OmniThread Library.
His presentation was an account of the knowledge gained in the process of using parallel programming to speed up a time consuming process in a 3D CAD product. The open source parallel programming library OmniThread was used for this. Read more ›
We met online, instead of meeting at the Shed.
At this meeting, Andrea Raimondi presented on System.Messaging.
Andrea showed us how System.Messaging could decouple the user interface from the business logic of a program. This approach works cross-platform and with VCL and FMX.
The code from this presentation is available here: Read more ›
Because of a microscopic strand of RNA, we met online, instead of meeting at the Shed.
Our meeting included a presentation by Roger Plant showing how to use databases in Lazarus, and a presentation by Aneal Chandra showing us how to create an automatic update feature for MS-Windows.
This meeting was online because of the COVID-19 epidemic.
Geoffrey Smith introduced us to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and all the services that are available in AWS.
Then John McDonald showed 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 ›
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 ›
Our next meeting will be on Monday 17th February.
Our Annual Symposium for 2019 was held on 21st March in Canberra and 22nd March in Melbourne.
Our Sponsors this year included:
