1. The Developers Group http://www.richplum.net
21st June, 2005 Meeting
POSK, Hammersmith
Group Leader Brian Long

2. Agenda
1:00 - 2:00 – Welcome, News & Problem Clinic
2:00 - 2:30 – Compression and Decompression Steve Wilcox
2:30 - 2:35 – Brief fidget break
2:35 - 3:15 – Introduction to Chrome Derek Davidson
3:15 - 3:35 – Tea/coffee & biscuits

3. Agenda
3:35 - 4:05 – Introduction to Chrome Derek Davidson
4:05 - 4:10 – Brief Fidget Break
4:10 - 5:10 – Portal Builder: Why we rolled our own web development environment in Delphi John Hair
5:10 - 6:00 – Operational Criteria Joanna Carter

4. News
Installaware ( have kindly donated copies of their software to be given away at each of the next few meetings
3 Express versions (RRP £55.55)
1 Developer version (RRP £195.80)
Online purchase, employing the crossgrade purchase option yields 33% discount on RRP
MSI-based
LZMA/BCJ2 compression
One-click patch creation
Debugging
Etc.

5. News
June 29th, 18:30-21:00pm
MSDN TechTalk: The Essentials of Hack Resistant Applications
By Marcus Perryman at Microsoft London

6. News Want to win a Smart Roadster valued at over £15,000?
Enter the MS smart client competition:
Set up your MSDN Connection profile
Answer a few questions about smart client application development
Other prizes include an Alienware PC, a Bluetooth enabled satellite navigation system, and 5 Axim X50v Pocket PCs
Competition closes 30th June

7. News
Component devlopment Masterclasses on 5th and 6th July in Upavon, Wilstshire
Delivered by Bob Swart and Brian Long
Full Win32 day (10am – 6pm)
Full .NET day (10am – 6pm)
Coverage includes:
run time and design time development
VCL for Win32, VCL for .NET, WinForms and ASP.NET
Full details at

8. News
Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch date announced as 7th November 2005

9. News
Microsoft e-Learning is offering free 90 day subscriptions to eLearning courses on VS2005 and SQL 2005 until 8 November 2005.

10. News Next meeting on Tuesday, July 18th at Microsoft, Reading
Topics to include
Upgrading databases
Migrating data-files to relational databases
SQL trees
DotNetNuke Web app development
Full agenda at:

11. News