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:
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:
TBA
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
Past meetings:
May 09
An Introduction to the Intel Integrated
Performance Primatives Library with Dr Dan Sox
The Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is an extensive
library of multicore-ready, highly optimized software functions for digital
media and data-processing applications. Intel IPP offers thousands of
optimized functions covering frequently-used fundamental algorithms. Intel
IPP functions are designed to deliver performance beyond what optimized
compilers alone can deliver.
The IPP covers the following areas: video coding, signal processing,
audio coding, image processing, speech coding, JPEG coding, speech
recognition, computer vision, data compression, image color conversion,
cryptography/CAVP validated, string processing/regular expressions,
vector/matrix mathematics, and ray-tracing/rendering.
The talk will be an introduction to the IPP from a Delphi user's
perspective.
Dr. Sox is a senior physicist at the Boeing Company working in the field
of adaptive optics. He has nearly thirty years experience using computers to
capture and analyze laboratory data. He did extensive image
capture/processing using an original IBM PC system, programming in Fortran
and Assembler. With the advent of MS Windows 3.0 he switched to C and
eventually C++ (using then MFC ugh!). However, when Delphi 1 was released he
switched to it and never looked back!
April 09
Learn how to discover, document, and re-use data assets with Embarcadero ER/Studio.
Reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize databases
Ability to create logical and physical models based on information extracted from databases and script files
Easily readable and navigable diagrams
Supports forward engineering with automatically generating database code from models
Advanced compare and merge with bidirectional comparisons and merges of model and database structures
Embarcadero Software Consultant Rob Loranger will give an overview and demonstration of ER/Studio's modeling capabilities and discuss why this capability is so important to Delphi and All Application Developers. We will also introduce our Database Gear tools to help you Build and Run your systems.
Product Overview
March 09
Delphi 2009 Productivity Tour
February 09
Implementing Inversion of Control, Design
Patterns, and Others presented by Steve Bearman
Architectural tools for modern software development. We will take
object-oriented design to the next level by building upon modern
techniques, including Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection.
We will cover a number of important Design Patterns from a current
perspective, with current uses and ways to implement the Adapter, Bridge,
Decorator, Proxy, Factory, Template, and Strategy Design Patterns.
Be there--it will be good!
presented by Steve Bearman, outstanding computer scientist and contributor to the user community.
December 08
Skinning Applications presented by Steven Brenner VP Operations
Information Products.
November 08
Requirements Management
software and Applications Lifecycle Management
The November meeting will feature Requirements Management
software and Applications Lifecycle Management. The Borland rep will be here
to demo Caliber and the entire Borland ALM suite.
This software can track a change from the first user request through
approval, development, version-control, testing, release, and acceptance.
So the version control system can show where every logged in change
originated, what every deployment contains, and who it was for.
In addition to seeing exactly how (and judging for yourself how well)
requirements management can be automated by an application, you will also
find out just what the hell - Application Lifecycle Management is about (ie
realworld vs. buzzword).
September 08
Windows Server 2008, Hyper V and Virtualization presented
by Warren Pearson
Warren will present a brief walk through of a recent server deployment
in a small office situation of this latest technology, including the
recently RTM'd Hyper V role. He will high light some of the
issues that arose.
August 08
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.
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
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
Both beginning and advanced topics covered. Once again an excellent and insiteful presentation covering language details and architectural matters.
June 07
May 07
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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