Australian Delphi User Group

Monthly Meeting

14th Dec 1998

Announcements and general business

Welcome to new members this month: Brian Watson, Mike Green, David Ford, Peter Robertson

March Symposium is on track. Many thanks to Graham Pitson for sharing the organisation tasks. Graham is actively soliciting input from members about programme content and preferred times.

Founding president Leon Shapiro was offered and accepted ADUG's first honorary life membership in recognition of past achievements.

10 minute tutorial

This months TMT was on "When to make your own components" and was given by John McDonald. Thanks John, and I hope you wear the T-Shirt with pride :-) To see John's notes please follow this link.

Keynote address

This month we were treated to a first class presentation by Grahame Grieve of Kestral Computing.

Precis

"Trials and tribulations of C/S development: Server programs in Delphi"

Grahame has developed several server programs in delphi, predominantly webserver extensions for the health industry. In his presentation he discusses lessons learned about coping with multi-threaded and multi-processor environments in Delphi. In his presentation, he presents a working Custom memory manager which illustrates several issues:

• How you can & Why you shouldn't write a Custom Memory manager
• Learn how to write thread-safe code
• Learn how to write efficient code for SMP machines (and how not  to crash them)
• What difficulties he discovered when upgrading to Delphi 4 and how to avoid them

Follow this link to see Grahame's excellent HTML slides

Speaker details
Name: Grahame Grieve
From: Kestral Computing
Phone: 03 9455 3711
Email: grahame@kestral.com.au
Background: Medical Information Systems