Monday 17th September at 6 for 6:15pm start.
The meeting will start with the Annual General Meeting
Then Brian Watson and Peter Postmus will present on Virtual TreeView
Category: Melbourne
Melbourne Meeting – August 2018
Monday 20th August.
Loc Nguyen presented on his POS System
His talk covered:
- The system’s 3 tier architecture consisting of an FMX client app, a VCL datasnap server and a backend SQL Server database.
- A short demo of the server module and the client app.
Melbourne Meeting – July 2018
Monday 16th July.
Grahame Grieve from Health Intersections presented on using Javascript in your application.
You can easily embed javascript in your application to allow your customers to write their own business rules. This presentation showed us how to do this using a simple data entry form as an example.… Continue reading ›
Melbourne Meeting – June 2018
Monday 18th June.
Continuing our Multi Threading theme from last month, Jarrod Hollingworth presented a master-class in advanced threading:
Topics included:
– Demonstrate the new Delphi parallel library (parallel for loop, tasks run in thread pool, joins and futures)
– Thread safety (expanding on what was shown with critical sections, mutex/semaphore, TEvent, interlocked increment, etc)
– Tips, techniques, issues (stopping a thread, more on interacting with the main thread, debugging)
…… Continue reading ›
Melbourne Meeting – May 2018
Monday 21st May.
John McDonald and Brian Watson gave a presentation on MultiThreading in Delphi.
John discussed the use of TThread for multithreading and the issues that have to be handled in multi-threaded applications. He showed a small program that illustrated the use of TThread.Queue and anonymous methods to communicate back to the main thread.… Continue reading ›
Melbourne Meeting – April 2018
Monday 16th April.
Robert Horbury-Smith introduced us to the Mormot (usually written as mORMot to emphasize the Object Relational Model aspect of the product).
… we saw how a fairly simple ORM based server using a database can be used to host “client” interfaces over REST and HTTP for both browser based (a la JavaScript) and VCL Front Ends from an n-Tier “Server” application using JSON …
… mORMot is a highly scalable, light footprint solution that deserves much more attention than it gets.… Continue reading ›
Melbourne Meeting – March 2018
Monday 19th March.
Brian Watson, Geoffrey Smith and Andrea Coffey shared some tips and tricks with Delphi and the IDE…… Continue reading ›
Our Annual Symposium for 2018 was held on 23rd May in Perth and 25th May in Melbourne.
Our Sponsors this year included:
