Oregon Delphi User Group

Sometimes, advancing technologies help make things smoother; many times, they make things more complicated. In the case of running Windows applications, moving from an office installation to a set of remote servers offers many benefits but can also negatively affect some features of what the software used to be able to do effortlessly. Tonight, we’ll share the details of how simply transferring files between a local computer and a remote software product suddenly took a dramatically increased amount of time when changing the access to the software–and what it took to resolve it.

Coding is changing shape and we will show you the future tonight!

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).