Los Angeles Delphi User Group

	Click on 'Classified Ads' for recent job postings Embarcadero Technologies buys Code Gear! For the full details see http://www.codegear.com/about/news/embt Updated version of Codegear Developer Studio includes .NET 2.0 support www.turboexplorer.com www.codegear.com The Los Angeles Delphi User Group is a forum for ideas and a meeting ground to bring together users of Borland Delphi for the purposes of mutual education. We meet on the first Thursday of every month at 7:00 p.m. at the Westside Pavilion in West L.A. For more information about the Los Angeles Delphi User Group, contact any of the officers listed on the Directors page. Please select the link at the left.
	Next Meeting
	When:	Thursday, August 7, 2008 7:00 p.m.
	Location:	Westside Pavilion, Community Room A (near the food court on the upper level) Pico Blvd. between Overland and Westwood, West L.A. Directions
	Topic:	PC Based Laboratory Data Acquisition and Control presented by Dan Sox Dr. Sox is a senior engineer at the Boeing Company. He has nearly thirty years experience using computers to capture and analyze laboratory data. Originally, he used a combination of Fortran and Assembler to capture data on a DEC RT/11 system. He did extensive image capture/processing using an original IBM PC system, again programming in Fortran and Assembler. With the advent of MS Windows 3.0 he switched to C and eventually C++ (using then MFC). However, when Delphi 1 was released he switched to it and never looked back! Over the years he has developed a somewhat unique approach/philosophy to laboratory data acquisition which he will discuss at the user meeting. He also believes that due to recent advances in PC technology, we are in the midst of a revolution in pc based laboratory data acquisition systems.
	Future meetings	Keep an eye on the site and support the group with your attendance and participation. Upcoming topics include: Working with WPF, Python, Threading/UDP/TPC, Power Shell, Skinning Applications.
	Past meetings:
	July 08	Round table With a number of regulars due to be away we plan a round table with contributions welcomed from any member. However these can be very worthwhile gatherings. It will include a recent war story involving disaster recovery - topic of the May meeting.
	June 08	Building Web Services with Delphi 2007 presented by Gerald Morris. Gerald has been using Delphi to build web services since 2002. This is the story of his experiences building and deploying web services in the real world!
	May 08	Disaster Recovery by Richard Grossman. Highlighted by a recent experience Richard will present key work practices to prepare yourself for such an event in a critical IT environment.
	April 08	Sharepoint technology roundup by specialist Bill Ho. What is it? How does it work?

	March 08	Round table discussion Last month we had a great presentation on Linq to SQL. Come back for more helpful updates and info.
	February 08	SQL language and SQL server clinic. By popular demand - come ready to discuss and contribute to this topic.
	January 08	Round table kick off. Round table to kick off 2008. Bring some code from a recent project you've been working on and share what you learned with the group.
	December 07	Favorite gadget and utility night It's just what it says. It's nearing Christmas and you could pick up some good gift ideas to drop on your family as well as learn about a productive tool to speed your development work. If you can carry it and fit it through the door be sure to bring it and we'll see how it rates. Or bring your laptop or flash drive and we'll take a look at software on the screen. There are an amazing array of technology gadgets and tools that folks use and take for granted that the rest of us would love to know about. This is your opportunity to tell others about them.
	November 07	Mind Manager from Mindjet.com by Bruce Gilham Documentation - it's right up there with Death and Taxes on the unpleasant but unavoidable list! Tedious, boring, hard to maintain, hard to update, no one ever reads it. Bruce Gilham will present a session on a product he's been using: Mind Manager from Mindjet.com. Much easier and flexible than Visio or UML modeling tools, it's a RAD approach to diagramming. He'll go over what it is, how it works, and what he's used it for. - Tired of customer and users NOT reading your documentation? - Tired of approval meetings turning into proof-reading sessions on your grammar and punctuation? - Tired of other programmers not quite understanding what your trying to get them to code? Mind Manager let's you quickly turn your design specifications into pretty pictures! Make the user sit up and take notice. Get other programmers to SEE and DO what needs to be done. This promises to be another fun and very useful presentation from Bruce. DON'T MISS IT! And unless you plan on getting a root canal done during the presentation, it will be WAY better than Death or Taxes !
	October 07	Round Table Rad a ma Taz!!! Come chew the fat on technical issues around our square tables.
	September 07	Miguel Genereux: The G-Framework!!! What was RAD 12 years ago is neither rapid nor robust by today's standards. Business logic and SQL statements in handcrafted user interfaces make development slow and fragile. Miguel along with Steve Kramer will introduce Steve's new open source RAD Framework for Delphi Win32 that Derails Rails, Pulverizes PHP, Nukes .NET and Eradicates ECO. You won't believe your eyes! Steve has posted the G framework at www.g-framework.org. You can take a look at it, view a Camtasia on how to use it and download the framework to try it yourself. Try it out before the meeting so that you can have excellent questions for Miguel and Steve.
	August 07	Greg Stevenson - Unit testing Continuing on from his very helpful presentation in May, Greg will take us further on this important journey into methods that ensure our code is good to go.
	July 07	C# 102 - with Steve Bearman Both beginning and advanced topics covered. Once again an excellent and insiteful presentation covering language details and architectural matters.
	June 07	C# 101 - with Steve Bearman
	May 07	Test driven development - Greg Stevenson Greg has been using Delphi almost exclusively since the early days of Delphi 1. He has been using automated testing to test his software even longer. He was a co-founder and the original president of the Orange County Delphi Users Group and helped organize several conferences for Delphi in Southern California. He has spoken on Delphi related topics numerous times. As applications become more and more complex, there is increasing need to verify that every change does what it was intended to do and that the change has no unforeseen side-effects. This presentation will introduce the participants to a wide variety of testing methodologies including: Unit, Functional, Web, Load, Stress, Regression, White/Gray/Black-Box, etc. and how they relate to one another to create a unified approach to testing software. Delphi 2007, TestComplete 5 and other Delphi-friendly products will be used as a demonstration framework for these concepts. However this will not be a vendor presentation, and other products as well as open source solutions will also be discussed. A lot of new material will be presented, so even those who have heard Greg speak on this topic before should learn a lot.
	April 07	CodeGear Delphi 2007 Launch Tour This was a well attended meeting, with CodeGear's Anders Ohlsson delivering a compelling presentation of Delphi's impressive new capabilities.
	March 07	Version Control Systems - contd... with Bill Ho
	February 07	Version Control Systems CVS presented by Bill Ruddick. A free but capable system. Note the trick of placing the empty text file in the repository before overwriting it with your folder heirarchy. Borland Star Team presented by Steve Colagiovanni. A very comprehensive and powerful product.
	January 07	Favorite Utilities Roundtable A very beneficial discussion and presentation was made of various utilities. We only got part way through a couple of utilities. There was also a brief but impressive presentation by Mel Raab of Knoppix!
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