Melbourne Meeting – October 2005
October 2005
Code Name Dexter – Tim Jarvis
Delphi 2006, ECO III, Delphi Compact Framework compiler and other cool features.… Continue reading ›
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 ›