Oregon Delphi User Group

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?

In October of 2023, the concepts of building RAD Server modules were introduced with the promise of a more advanced topic “soon”. Well, next month, we will finally dive into the deep end but this month a refresh of that introductory topic will be shared along with a quick database demo that produces a JSON list of customers. Additionally, a quick show-and-tell of an Android app written with the popular JavaScript framework, React Native will demonstrate how the JSON data produced is used.

Let’s talk about plans and tech trends for this new year.

For the last 10 years, a set of programming challenges has been produced on a daily basis from the beginning of December until Christmas. It is called Advent of Code, a name derived from the “Advent Calendars” popular this time of year where kids open a daily tab on a wall-hung calendar to reveal a surprise as they count down the days until Christmas.

Tonight we’ll look at a batch script that calls three command-line utilities which perform a lot of tedious work of migrating legacy Delphi 5 programs to compile under Delphi 12. The old code base uses the BDE and a lot of custom components; the new code uses FireDAC and Raize Controls and Quantumn Grid from DevExpress–a huge jump in functionality and improvement in user interface!

This month will be a light touch on a few of the recent features added to Delphi 12, including AI integration, Split Editor, Focus Mode, and WebStencils.

This month, we’ll meet at Gene and Sue’s home for authentic home-made pizza! They have a new address and would like a head-count, so watch your email and RSVP to that. If you want to attend, join our Groups.io mailing list and I’ll make sure you get an invite.

No meeting this month–enjoy a trip to the beach or mountains!

We’re taking it easy this month–no official presentation, no computers, just get together as friends and make sure we’re all surviving the summer heat!

Due to multiple conflicting schedules, we will not hold our regular Delphi meeting in Oregon this month. Enjoy the Juneteenth holiday and we’ll see you in July!