Melbourne Meeting – September 2005

September 2005

DUnit on DataModules – Mathias Burbach

We saw how we can separate our business logic from the user interface and how to apply unit testing on the business logic contained in TDataModule.

This presentation was preceded with the AGM.… Continue reading ›

Melbourne Meeting – August 2005

August 2005

Subversion – one of many Version Control System – Peter McNab

Subversion in depth followed by short comparisons of Perforce (Richard King); Team Coherence (Graham Pitson); CVS (Don Macrae) and Star Team (?).… Continue reading ›

Melbourne Meeting – July 2005

July 2005

Working with Excel from Delphi – John McDonald

John covered the basics of connecting to Excel using the ExcelApplication component, writing data to a spreadsheet, and formatting the spreadsheet. Speeding up the data transfer was then discussed. These techniques can be extrapolated to other interactions with Excel.… Continue reading ›

Melbourne Meeting – June 2005

June 2005

Compiler Writing for Dummies – Darren Snodgrass

This presentation provided an introduction to the steps involved with writing a simple Pascal compiler and interpreter, including language definition, parsing, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, error recovery, assembly and the operation of a stack based machine.… Continue reading ›

Melbourne Meeting – May 2005

May 2005

A Sample Code Review – Tim Jarvis

Tim walked through a unit of code kindly provided by Don Macrae or was it more the case of Tim kindly walked through a unit of code provided by Don Macrae? Tim’s emphasis was on checking conformance to a coding standard.… Continue reading ›

Melbourne Meeting – April 2005

April 2005

Recursion and Linked Lists – Roger Connell

Early Pascal texts dealt extensively with managing dynamically allocated data via linked lists and with recursion in procedures. With Delphi the dynamic data tends to be allocated as objects and these objects are typically managed in containers such as TObjectList.… Continue reading ›