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General Meeting
Location: Willowdale United Church, 349 Kenneth Avenue, Willowdale
Date: Monday, April 1
Topic: IntraWeb, FinalBuilder and Other Cool Stuff
Chad Hower
http://www.atozedsoftware.com

Chad will be presenting four topics! Yes its a real amazing feat to fit these in the time allotted but it will happen. :)

1) IntraWeb
2) FinalBuilder
3) Weird Wires - The Other Side of Indy
4) The Amazing Kudzu Plant - Fact, Fiction, or Alien Plot?

IntraWeb
You have got to try IntraWeb! A revolutionary new way to create your Web Applications - Create, Debug and Maintain web-based applications as quickly and easily as your normal Delphi applications using IntraWeb.

SDGN Magazine, the official magazine of Software Development Group Netherlands (SDGN) reviewed IntraWeb in their December 2001 edition. SDGN Magazine says: "Intraweb is a very nice tool to build web applications in a fast and simple way and in a language Delphi developers feel at home with. With this tool you will be very comfortable and it feels good, right from the start." (Translated from Dutch).

FinalBuilder
Never use batch files again! Its like Delphi for batch file tasks! Automate your Build Process with FinalBuilder - Add some quality to your software development life cycle, with an automated, reliable build process.

Weird Wires - The Other Side of Indy
This session is a take off from Mark Miller’s “Dark Side of Delphi” which is a take off from Marco Cantu’s “Fun Side of Delphi”. However, while those sessions caused humor and havoc on a single computer, in this session we will use a network really spread the chaos. Come see what partially useless but interesting things can be done with Indy when you do not have to worry about such petty things as deadlines and revenue. But, don’t worry – they are all based on Indy and most can be easily transformed into useful applications if you do have to perform real work.

The Amazing Kudzu Plant - Fact, Fiction, or Alien Plot?
What is Kudzu? Kudzu is an amazing plant that grows over 2 meters a week and takes 15-20 years to effectively control. In this very lighthearted session, you will learn some amazing things about a plant you have probably never heard of. Where did it come from? (And more importantly, Where is it going?) Is it of earthly origin? What can you do with Kudzu? How can you get rid of it? When will it complete its current path of world domination? Why haven’t you heard of it before? What should you do if you find Kudzu? And for the crazy, How to grow Kudzu?

Chad's Bio
Chad Z. Hower, a.k.a. "Kudzu" is the original author and project coordinator for Internet Direct (Indy). Indy consists of over 110 components and is included as a part of Delphi, Kylix and C++ Builder. Chad's background includes work in the employment, security, chemical, energy, trading, telecommunications, wireless, and insurance industries. Chad's area of specialty is TCP/IP networking and programming, inter-process communication, distributed computing, Internet protocols, and object-oriented programming. When not programming, he likes to cycle, kayak, hike, downhill ski, drive, and do just about anything outdoors. Chad, whose motto is "Programming is an art form that fights back," also posts free articles, programs, utilities and other oddities at Kudzu World at http://www.Hower.org/Kudzu/. Chad is an American ex-patriot who currently lives in St. Petersburg, Russia and can be reached at cpub@Hower.org.

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