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ADUG Symposium 2006
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The ADUG Symposium
is on again
If you program in
Delphi the ADUG Symposium is an event not to be missed. This year we
are running it in Winter rather than Autum, but as always it promises
to be a day of high quality presentations of guaranteed relevance, and
truly extra-ordinary value.
Our guest
presenter this year is Helen Borrie of Firebird fame and author of "The
Firebird Book". Surrounding her we have a mix of presentations covering
Win32 and .Net Delphi topics
In addition, Malcolm Groves will be bringing us up to date
on "DevCo" and the plans for Delphi - a issue of importance
to anyone who programs in Delphi
Your registration fee
includes all refreshments, including lunch and end of day drinks and
nibbles.
Melbourne,
Thursday June 8
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Adelaide,
Friday June 9
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Programme
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8:30-8:45
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Registration
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8:45-9:00
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Introduction
and Welcome
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9:00-10:30
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How
to implement Plug-ins in .NET
Glenn Stephens
Medical-Objects
This presentation will take you through some of the common problems of
working with plug-ins with .NET applications, as well as discussing
techniques that work in .NET 1.1 that do not work in the .NET 2.0
world, the use of .NET Reflection, Custom Attributes, Configuration
Files and what approaches give your applications the most benefit and
flexability
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10:30-11.00
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Coffee
break
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11.00-12:30
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Sweet-talking
Firebird with Delphi
Helen Borrie
Writing database applications for a Firebird (or InterBase) back-end is
all about conversations. Applications request and Firebird responds.
The better the request, the more sweetly the database engine will
oblige. In this presentation, Helen will address various techniques
that Delphi developers use and explain how rewarding a good
understanding of Firebird's personality can be.
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12:30-1:15
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Malcolm Groves will give us an update on DevCo and
the plans for Delphi (and the other Borland developer tools) -
not to be missed for any Borland development tool user
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1:15-2:00
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1:15 Lunch
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2:00-3:30
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Component
Development in Delphi/VCL
Glenn
Crouch
ESB
Consultancy
Component Oriented Development is an area that Delphi has always been
strong in, and where new platforms like .NET are aiming to be even
stronger. The whole purpose of Components - both those you design
yourself and third party ones - is the area of Reusability. We will
cover the creation of simple and complex components, as well as some
newer features offered in Delphi 2006 for component development. We
will also cover where the third party Component and Tools market seems
to be and where it seems to be going
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3:30-4:00
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Coffee
Break
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4:00-5:30
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Delphi.Net
on Linux using Mono
Emlyn ORegan
We've all heard about .Net, and some of us are using it. And many have
heard the promise that .Net applications can run on platforms other
than Windows. Theory aside, is it now actually
*practical* to create cross platform apps with Delphi for .Net?
Emlyn will demonstrate the practicality of taking a Delphi.Net
web-based database application developed on Windows and porting it to
Linux, Mono, Apache, and MySQL. The ported app will run on both
Windows and Linux, with development occuring on Windows and deployment
going to both Linux and Windows platforms.
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5:40-7:00
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Closing
session and prize draw
Prize
presentation and a chance to wind down and chat over drinks and finger
food
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Speakers
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Glenn
Stephens
Glenn Stephens is a developer, architect and manager of software
solutions and has been involved in numerous industries from education,
security, finance and the health industry. Glenn is currently CEO of
Medical-Objects (www.medical-objects.com.au) an Australian software
company specialising in secure communications between members of the
health industry. Glenn has written numerous publications, has one
Delphi/Kylix book under his belt and is the developer of the OrchardBPM
Business Process Management software (www.orchardbpm.com). He is
intrugued by many aspects of the software process such as architecture,
operations and marketing, the roles of the user and more. Glenn's
weaknesses include all musical instruments, snowboarding and comedy
clubs. Glenn can be contacted at glenn@glennstephens.com.au
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Helen
Borrie
Helen Borrie has been around databases since the early 1980s and
discovered InterBase in 1996. In 2000 she co-founded the Firebird
project and has been deeply involved ever since. Her 2 Kg brick, "The
Firebird Book", was published in English in 2004 and in translations
last year.
Helen works as a consultant in Australasia and has tele-clients in
several other countries. She provides technical support for the IB
Objects connectivity suite, runs the Firebird Foundation and is
currently working on three more books.
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Glenn
Crouch
Glenn has been programming for almost 30 years and has worked heavily
with Turbo Pascal followed by Borland Delphi. He has lectured in
Programming, Software Engineering and Business Statistics. He has been
involved been a Moderator with elists.org (and it's predecessors) for
over 10 years as well as many other Forums, including our own ADUG
List. His family owned company, ESB Consultancy, has been selling their
components (ESBPCS) for Delphi for over 6 years and also sell
Calculators and other Mathematical Tools, as well as being involved in
local client work.
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Emlyn
O'Regan
Emlyn started with Delphi in 1998, and has worked in it since, as well
as vb, java, c++, c, c#, and vb.net. He is a long term application
developer (code monkey) with a focus on pragmatic solutions to real
world problems. He hasn't written any books, but he has written an
awful lot of code.
Emlyn is currently the development manager and team leader for UNIFY
Solutions' suite of identity management products, including UNIFYNow
(the real-time event engine for Microsoft Identity Integration Server)
and the UNIFYConnect series of custom application connectors.
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Pricing
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Non
- Member
Non member price
for the day is $150, or you can pay $160 to register and
join the ADUG.
ADUG
Members
Prices for existing
ADUG members are low this year, and depend on years of membership, as
follows:
- less than 1: $80
- between 1 and 2:
$70
- between 2 and 3:
$60
- over 3: $50
To
qualify for member pricing
- you must be a
financial member at the time of registration
- your membership
application date must be prior to March 23rd 2006
If your membership
lapsed recently you can renew it. Recently means your membership
renewal date is later than June 30, 2005. You can check your renewal
date by going to the members services login.
If your name appears in the drop-down list you are either financial or
recently lapsed. If your renewal date has passed you are not financial
and need to renew. Note that a membership status of "Current" does
*not* mean you are financial. This field is for internal use, and
changes to "Lapsed" some time after you have failed to renew your
membership.
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