Brisbane Meeting – November 2012

Thursday 01 November 2012

The Upsides and Downsides of Mobile – Glenn Stephens

This talk will take a look at some of the benefits and difficulties of mobile apps and how to work with and around it. This will look at the lack of control through App Stores, the lack of customer interaction as a result of the customer review process and the nature of Android fragmentation and other details that are often not discussed.… Continue reading ›

Sydney Meeting – October 2012

October 2012

Delphi by Design: A look at the Open-Close Principle – Colin Johnsun

“Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification”. What does this mean? In this talk we’ll look at a simple application to illustrate this design principle.… Continue reading ›

Melbourne Meeting – October 2012

October 2012

How to make Data Entry Operators happy! – Noel Lodge

It seems Noel has always looked for ways to use automation to improve life. Noting that data entry can be pretty boring and quite repetitive he talks about simple ways applications can help improve things and in the process increase productivity.… Continue reading ›

Sydney Meeting – September 2012

September 2012

Delving deeper into XE3 – Damien Bootsma

Damien is going to pick up where he left off at the recent Sydney XE3 World Tour event and delve deeper into

* Differences between FMX1 and FMX2
* Layouts in FMX
* Actions in FMX
* Media Support in FMX
* MetropolisUI in FMX
* LiveBindings and TProtoTypeBindSource

And of course there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions of Damien on these and other topics.… Continue reading ›

Melbourne Meeting – September 2012

September 2012

AGM + Mercurial version control – Lachlan Gemmell

After the AGM Lachlan introduced us to Mercurial , a free distributed (i.e. no server required) version control system. Mercurial itself is a command line application but TortoiseHg, a shell extension, provides a user-friendly interface.… Continue reading ›

Brisbane Meeting – September 2012

Thursday 06 September 2012

Developing Simulations for Business Models – Geoff Harris

This talk will focus on the development of computer simulations of real-world business models. The terminology will be introduced in natural language and comparisons of differences from traditional simulations of natural sciences will be explained.… Continue reading ›

Sydney Meeting – August 2012

August 2012

The bleeding edge of IDE enhancements – Lachlan Gemmell

Recently there have been a few new IDE enhancement plugins released both commercial and freeware. While some are more mature than others we’ll take a look at them all and assess how useful they might be to your day to day development practices.… Continue reading ›