Oregon Delphi User Group

It’s that time of year again! Yep, Advent of Code is back! How many puzzles can you solve before the meeting?

Everyone is talking about AI these days. Many use AI to help with their programming. But what if you want the software you write to use AI or provide an AI interface to its users? Are your customers clamoring for AI-enabled apps? Are you afraid of losing business if you don’t add it? What will it do?

We’ll answer many of these questions at tonight’s meeting–and show ways to add AI capabilities to an old Delphi application!

Have you heard about the JSON format but are not sure what it’s for? Or perhaps you’ve been using a JSON library in your Delphi programs but are wondering if there’s a better one. October is the month we’ll answer those questions!

Delphi 13 Florence is the latest major release of our namesake’s IDE and has several new features including the language’s very first ternary operator!

Jonathan Eaton will demonstrate and code review a tool he developed in Delphi for speeding up the process of updating a client’s business system to accommodate changes to IRS forms.

Homer Jones will do a code review of a couple of projects he’s been working on, one that imports CSV files and another that logs phone calls.

This month’s focus will be on using AI as a professional developer and what we might want to do with a newly acquired domain, pnwdelphi.org.

No specific agenda tonight except to check out the new location and discuss recent advances in software development (or not).

Homer Jones will show the code for a custom FTP server, the client application that uses it, and the installation script to get this all set up for the end user.

Delphi 12.3 was released last week. Even though it’s a “dot release” with many bug fixes it also has an important new feature: 64-bit IDE! Finally, right?