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Hello 2018

Posted on December 28, 2017 by bmcgee

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year from The Toronto Delphi Users Group. We have tentative dates for our first three meetings in 2018, all of which are in room 4. They are: Tue, Jan 30 Thu, Feb 22 … Continue reading →

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Reminder: TDUG meeting Tuesday, October 24th

Posted on October 23, 2017 by bmcgee

TDUG meeting Tuesday, October 24th

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TDUG meeting Tuesday, October 24th

Posted on October 18, 2017 by bmcgee

By request, we are going to cover some “back to basics” topics. This month, we are going to talk about suggestions for setting up a new Delphi development project from scratch. This will include useful IDE settings and third party … Continue reading →

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TDUG meeting Tuesday, September 26th

Posted on September 18, 2017 by bmcgee

We’re back from our summer break. Our first meeting will be about web development using Delphi. We will review some of the popular options and discuss recent events, like Embarcadero’s acquisition of Sencha (and Ext JS). I hope you’ll join … Continue reading →

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TDUG meeting Thursday, June 29th

Posted on June 22, 2017 by bmcgee

Note that we’re back in room 4 this month. Brian Muegge will be talking about using interfaces in Delphi. Here is his summary: Interfaces are one of those Delphi features that you may not think you need, but once you … Continue reading →

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TDUG meeting Wednesday, May 31st

Posted on May 25, 2017 by bmcgee

Note the change in day. We are meeting on Wednesday. This month, Rick Dermont wraps up his series of presentations on RTTI. He has covered a great deal of theory in the past two meetings and will finish up with some practical examples. … Continue reading →

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TDUG meeting Thursday, April 27th

Posted on April 19, 2017 by bmcgee

Note that we are meeting on a Thursday this month and we will be in room 2 on the third floor. Last month Rick Dermont gave us an introduction to Run-Time Type Information (RTTI) and some of its idosyncracies. This … Continue reading →

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TDUG meeting Tuesday, March 28th

Posted on March 22, 2017 by bmcgee

Our user group president, Rick Dermont, will be talking about Run-Time Type Information (RTTI). RTTI lets you find out information about types at run time (hence the name). It has been in Delphi since version 1 and is vital to … Continue reading →

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TDUG meeting Tuesday, Feb 28th

Posted on February 20, 2017 by bmcgee

Rick Scheibl will be giving us an introduction to MongoDB and Node.js and how to use these with Delphi. It’s an ambitious presentation that covers a lot of material. I’m looking forward to learning more options for my multi-tier applications. From Rick’s … Continue reading →

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January meeting follow-up

Posted on January 28, 2017 by bmcgee

Since its release on February 14th, 1995, there have been 23 major releases of Delphi with more features than you can shake a stick at. So you can be forgiven for missing some of them, even if you make a point of … Continue reading →

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