UK Delphi Developers Meeting

Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 17th July - 12pm to 5pm.

The topics/speakers for this meeting:

The usual catch-up/news - Jason Chapman
A Utility for Code Generation – Patrick Davey
    CodeDeck is an in house built extensible framework of C# classes developed mainly to generate computer code
    The talk consists of an attempt to build a database application using CodeDeck code generators.
CodeSite – Tamas Nagy
    "The CodeSite Logging System by Raize Software gives you deeper insight into how your code is executing..." [Docwiki]
    More details to follow
An enhanced hex file viewer to help with viewing/decoding binary files – Dave Martel
    A demonstration of the tool I have been using (and slowly adding useful extras to) for the best part of 25 years.
    I will show (with a case study) how it can be used to slowly tease apart certain file structures.
    Features like search for floating point numbers with a tolerance when all you may have, is a poor-quality ASCII output of just some of the critical values, will be demonstrated.
pfSense - The open source firewall-router platform - Glenn Dufke
    Do you want to improve your home or business network's security? Tired of paying a fortune for big name brands?
    During the presentation we'll be introduced to pfSense - a modern and rock solid, open source firewall-router which has features you pay big money for in other solutions, where we'll go over network basics and some of the most common packages to install and configure.

Our next UK Developers Group meeting is this coming Monday 16th September! The meeting is being held in Central London and also online via Zoom.

Timings for the meeting are: midday to 5pm UK time.

The topics/speakers for this meeting:

  • The usual catch-up/news - Jason Chapman

  • Quartex Pascal – Kevin Bond

    • Progress update on Quartex Pascal
  • Hashing algorithms and Amazon Vouchers – Mark Jacobs

    • An appraisal of current hashing technique

    • A real world example using Amazon vouchers

  • System tables in MS SQL – Patrick Davey

    • A discussion of how to retrieve system information in MS SQL

    • Presentation of an example of the use of table structure information in a code generator

The group is professional, so there is a membership fee for attending to cover admin costs. However the first meeting is free, and we encourage people to come to try out a taster session. If you are interested please contact myself or Jason Chapman for invite details.

See here for a synopsis of our last meeting, in July: https://www.ukdevgroup.co.uk/ians-july-2024-meeting-summary/

We are also on the lookout for interesting talks, so if you would like to do a talk for the group, please get in touch.

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Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 15th October - 12pm to 5pm. (UK time)

The topics/speakers for this meeting:

  • The usual catch-up/news - Jason Chapman

  • Web Assembly from pascal – Ian Hamilton
    A quick introduction to WebAssembly and how it may be used in Free Pascal/Lazarus, from 2 articles published in Blaise Pascal magazine:
    . Basic use of WebAssembly in Lazarus and – a quick, general introduction to WA
    . Controlling the browser from within the WebAssembly – more advanced stuff

  • Microsoft Power Automate – Martin Hamilton
    Introduction and sample use updating an online Web database from Excel

  • The Sëx Life of Functions – Paul McGee
    [David Attenborough voice] Functions are one of life’s most fascinating and fundamental creatures.
    They underpin our programming existence, and live alongside Data and Types to enable everything we do in computing.

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Hi all

Here are details and content for the next UK Developers Group (for Delphi developers) online meeting.

Wednesday 13th November, midday to 5pm UK time, via Zoom.

The topics/speakers for this meeting:

*The usual catch-up/news - Jason Chapman

*GraphQL, or There and Back Again, an API engineer’s tale…Richard Hatherall

*I Made Money from AI – Simon Hooper

*Creating an AI Assistant for ExcelConrad Vermeulen

The group is professional, so there is a membership fee for attending to cover admin costs. However the first meeting is free, and we encourage people to come to try out a taster session. If you are interested please contact myself or Jason Chapman for invite details.

See here for a synopsis of our meeting from last month: https://www.ukdevgroup.co.uk/ians-oct-2024-meeting-summary/

We are also on the lookout for interesting talks, so if you would like to do a talk for the group, please get in touch.

Happy New Year all! :sparkler:
Here are details and content for the next UK Developers Group (for Delphi developers) online meeting.
Wednesday 15th January, midday to 5pm UK time, via Zoom.

The topics/speakers for this meeting:

  • The usual catch-up/news - Jason Chapman
    *An interview with Marco Geuze (GDK) about his new book ‘Pioneering Simplicity - The Story of Pascal’: – Jason Chapman & Marco Geuze
  • Delphi and AI – Marco Geuze
  • Function resolution in Delphi – Dave Capps
  • Assignable Typed Constants – Paul James Woodhams
  • Topic TBD – Rob Lambden

See here for a synopsis of our last meeting in November 2024: https://www.ukdevgroup.co.uk/ians-nov-2024-meeting-summary/

We are also on the lookout for interesting talks, so if you would like to do a talk for the group, please get in touch.