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TDUG Meeting Wed, Nov 27th – Fractals!

Fractals! Speaker: Bruce McGee I admit, it’s a pretty broad topic. Since fractals stopped being exclusively the domain of mathematicians and entered into popular culture, people have waxed poetic about how they mirror the chaotic nature the universe and might … Continue reading

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TDUG Meeting – Wed, Oct 30th – Using Materials in FireMonkey 3D

Using Materials in FireMonkey 3D Speaker: Bruce McGee This is a follow-up to our Introduction to FireMonlkey 3D meeting in June where we talked about how to create and manipulate 3D objects. This month we’ll dig a little deeper into the … Continue reading

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TDUG Meeting – Wed, Sept 25th – Variations on the Game of Life

Variations on the Game of Life Speaker: Bruce McGee I’d be surprised if anyone hasn’t at least heard about The game of Life; A simulation that began as a thought experiment in 1940 and was made popular by John Conway in … Continue reading

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TDUG Meeting – Wed, June 26th – Introduction to FireMonkey 3D

Introduction to FireMonkey 3D Speaker: Bruce McGee FireMonkey is Embarcadero’s cross-platform UI framework. On top of the regular UI elements you would expect, it also includes some interesting hardware accelerated graphics features, and built-in 3D functionality. We will demonstrate how to … Continue reading

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TDUG Meeting – Thu, May 30th – Use SSL to make your Delphi applications secure. For free.

Use SSL to make your Delphi applications secure. For free. Speaker: Bruce McGee Delphi is so well known for building desktop applications and for its database functionality that it might be easy to overlook its long history of server and … Continue reading

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TDUG meeting Thursday, April 25th

Speaker: Bruce McGee A little bit of this, a little bit of that… We will be covering a lot of little things this month. Additions and improvements to Delphi, hints and tips, frequently asked questions, etc. Topics include: New string-like syntax for arrays … Continue reading

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TDUG meeting Thursday, March 28th

Lists, collections and arrays in Delphi Speaker: Bruce McGee Update: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the March meeting has been cancelled. We’ll pick up again at the end of April. Sorry for any inconvenience. Delphi has always supported arrays and collections, … Continue reading

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TDUG meeting Thursday, Feb 28th

Introduction to LiveBindings Speaker: Bruce McGee Live bindings is the Delphi implementation of data binding, which lets you synchronise properties from different objects. This is useful for populating and controlling the user interface from classes or a database without using data aware … Continue reading

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TDUG meeting Thursday, Jan 31st

A Practical Introduction to Databases with Delphi Speaker: Bruce McGee Since its first release in 1995, one of Delphi’s strengths has been its database capabilities. Sure we hear this all the time, but what does it actually mean for you … Continue reading

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TDUG meeting Tuesday, Nov 13th

Speaker: Bruce McGee We’ll be talking about what’s new in the upcoming Delphi  10.3 Rio. This will be our last meeting for the year. We will pick up gain in January. In the mean time, David Magerman has set up … Continue reading

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