🚀 go-pugleaf

  This meeting was originally scheduled for February 27, but due to bad 
weather was postponed a week. My apologies to everyone who was 
inconvenienced by the rescheduling.

The meeting began with a presentation of the Eiffel binding for the 
NeoCore XMS engine. NeoCore XMS is an efficient, native XML database 
engine. The Eiffel binding was developed by Fowler Software Design, and 
allows for very easy development of XMS clients. We saw interaction 
between a sample Eiffel client and an XMS server, along with portions of 
the Eiffel code that made up the client.

Tim Hershberger, a senior account executive from NeoCore, was on hand to 
answer questions about XMS. Overall, XMS looks like an impressive 
solution for anyone working with XML data storage and retrieval.

After the Neocore demonstration, Steve Thompson presented a slide show 
he's developed as an introduction to the SDL Wrapper, CEUG's Open Source 
project, along with a demonstration application.

Before the meeting closed, the group discussed future priorities for the 
SDL Wrapper. We decided that there's strong interest in exploring the 
audio and video components of the SDL.

The next meeting of the CEUG will be on March 27, at the traditional 
time and place. The agenda will be announced shortly.

For more information about NeoCore and XMS, visit:
http://www.neocore.com/
http://www.neocore.com/products/products.htm

For more information about Fowler Software Design, visit
http://www.fowlersoftware.com

The SDL Wrapper, CEUG's Open Source Project, is located on SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ceug/

If you are interested in joining the CEUG, visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/colorado_eiffel_users/

The Eiffel programming language offers advanced support for OO,
generics, assertions (in the form of Design by Contract) closures
(known as agents) and more. A good starting place to learn more about
Eiffel is:
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_eiffel.html