Who We Are

The Programmers SIG is a group dedicated to exchanging ideas and information on programming with Microsoft's Visual Studio, Borland's Developer Studio, and related technologies. This includes Delphi, Lazarus, Chrome, C#, ASP, ASP.Net, and Mono.

The heart of the group is the use of Object Pascal for programming. We do touch on other technologies, but our focus is primarily Delphi with a sprinkle of Lazarus / FPC and Chrome thrown in for good measure.

Thomas Miller, Chair Person

Calendar

We meet the first Wednesday of each month except January and July. We usually meet at the Inter American Development Bank in downtown Washington, 2 blocks from Metro Center, at 7 PM.

 

07-MAY-2008	Delphi4PHP Product review and critique. Presenter: Dennis Courtney
04-JUN-2008	Comparison of AQTime and Sampling Profiler "AQTime" and "Sampling Profiler" are both profilers. AQTime is a commercial product whereas Sampling Profiler is freeware (but not open source). In general "Sampling Profiler" is very easy to learn to use and is an effective tool. "AQTime" is more difficult to learn to use but once you learn how to use it, it is better in most situations. AQTime also provides functionality that "Sampling Profiler" does not provide such as memory and resource leak detection and coverage analysis. Presenter: Richard Winston
02-JUL-2008	No Meeting
06-AUG-2008	No Meeting
03-SEPT-2008	OPEN TOPIC TBA Presenter: TBA
01-OCT-2008	OPEN TOPIC TBA Presenter: TBA
05-NOV-2008	OPEN TOPIC TBA Presenter: TBA
03-DEC-2008	OPEN TOPIC TBA Presenter: TBA
07-JAN-2009	No Meeting

 

Projects of Interest

chrome:portal is an open source Content Management Systems (CMS). The group is taking an active role in the development of this open source project. It provides a real life situation for us to learn more about Microsoft Visual Studio, Chrome language, ASP.Net 2, mono, and web development in general. You can find more information about chrome:portal here.