The term “business application” was stretched a bit when Embarcadero came to town during the XE2 tour and explained how FireMonkey is the new way to write business applications. You won’t see data rotating on a cube or have to sit through yet another photo album example that attempts to wow the audience by zooming in on a picture. Instead, this demo will show how you can make your existing business applications more intuitive by tapping into the natural human tendency to want to manipulate what is seen on the screen with a finger–and how that differs from using a mouse.

Suggestions from the audience will be solicited throughout the meeting to make the application even better. Source code to the application will be made available after the meeting.

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• Analysis of Gesture Design (PDF)
• Touch Gesture Reference Cards (PDF)
• Touch Gesture Reference Guide (PDF)

PRESENTER

David Cornelius has been developing software since the mid-80’s. He is the coordinator of the Oregon Delphi User Group and is a software development manager at Retail Dimensions. You can read more about him and his programming interests on his web site, Cornelius Concepts.

With RAD Studio XE2, you will be able to create 64-bit Delphi applications to take advantage of the latest hardware, access more memory, and push the performance envelope. You will be able to deploy your applications to Windows and Mac and more. And with FireMonkey™, the GPU-powered next-generation application platform, you’ll be able to create visually stunning HD and 3D business applications that are more immersive and interactive than anything on the market.

Come see what all the excitement is about at this free RAD Studio XE2 World Tour event and see how easy you can:

• Create GPU-powered FireMonkey applications that will keep your customers engaged
• Build 64-bit Delphi applications to take advantage of the latest hardware
• Create a single application and target both Windows and OS X
• Extend your multi-tier DataSnap applications with new mobile and cloud connectivity in RAD Cloud
• Connect any visual element to any type of data using LiveBindings™
• Modernize the look and feel of your Windows applications with VCL styles
• Create mobile-optimized web applications and standalone apps for iOS and Android devices using RadPHP
• …and much more!

All event attendees will receive:

• Special discounts on RAD Studio XE2, Delphi® XE2, C++Builder® XE2, RadPHP XE2 and Embarcadero Prism XE2
• Entry in a drawing for a free copy of RAD Studio XE2 Professional

Refreshments will be served at this event.

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We will also look at using the web services wizard to read in WSDL from a SOAP based web service. This is nice because we can see how it hides all the complexities of XML from us. Delphi Pro will be used, but we can discuss what DataSnap is capable of doing as well. We’ll also discuss JSON because in many places it is starting to replace XML where the complexities of XML are not necessary.

If there is time we will create JSON from the web broker server and read it in using a Delphi client. The push towards simplification of the data we transfer on the web right now is strong so we need to understand each of these technologies as well as how they have influenced each other.

PRESENTER

Ron Grove has been in the IT Services area for many years but picked up Delphi along the way to maintain some in-house programs. He recently joined Retail Dimensions, Inc. as a Delphi developer and brings a strong interest in mobile services to the team.

One member, David Cornelius, has been a long-time user and proponent of CodeSite and will share his expertise with the group. Even though this product has been out for a while, he still get requests once in a while on how to use CodeSite effectively. And since an “express” version of the product now ships with RAD Studio, more people are using this tool.

Some of the features that will be discussed include:

• Displaying a variety of data types
• Using colors to quickly locate key debug lines
• Differences between the full and express versions
• How to export information in records
• Saving debug output to a file
• Multi-threaded debugging
• How to use CodeSite with Visual Studio
• Using templates to quickly add debugging to your code

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PRESENTER

David Cornelius is a full-time Delphi developer and has been programming since the 1980s.

PRESENTERS

The discussion leaders are long-time members of this group, Homer Jones and Dan Lowe. There are likely others that have experience with this or other help authoring products and we welcome their comments.

The emphasis this month will be using Firebird with examples and member experiences shared.

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PRESENTER

Our main presenter is Alfonso Presa. Alfonso was born in Cuba and received a Bachelors degree in Computer Science at ISPJAE (Tech University of Havana). He also pursued a Masters in Telecommunications, but had to leave the area. He was in Venezuela for 9 years developing software for Pharmacies, Drugstores, Clinics, and Insurance. He is now in the United States, but works remotely for the health care company, which now has more than 450 customers and a solid reputation in the local market.

He has used Delphi 6 and Firebird versions 1.5 - 2.5. He will share programming techniques and ways to develop mid-sized applications using Firebird and show that even being a free database engine, Firebird can compete with almost all features of larger products such as SQL Server and Oracle. In fact, Firebird is faster and easier to deploy in small environments (less than 40 workstations).

Join us as we explore this incredible open source product to learn how you can provide robust database solutions to your customers.