The theme of this meeting was Delphi IDE extensions.
We had several short presentations:
Geoffrey Smith on Project Magician
John McDonald on Documentation Insight
Peter Magor on GExperts
Tony Bryer on MMX Code Explorer
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The meeting started with the Annual General Meeting
Then Brian Watson and Peter Postmus presented on Virtual TreeView
Loc Nguyen presented on his POS System
His talk covered:
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 ›
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)
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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 ›
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 ›
Our Annual Symposium for 2019 was held on 21st March in Canberra and 22nd March in Melbourne.
Our Sponsors this year included:
