If you recognize the title of this article by Robert Lee, then chances are you’ve been around Delphi for a while! 🙂
Alas the optimalcode.com website and Robert Lee disappeared years ago without a trace, but the “Delphi Optimization Guidelines” (dating back from 2002-3003) has been safeguarded and preserved. Recently someone pointed to me that the mirror I had in my Links section had disappeared too…
Amongst the samples included with Delphi, you can find a “Meteors” clone. With SmartMobileStudio approaching the next beta milestone, I gave it a run at compiling old Delphi code, VCL, TCanvas-based, that was never intended to run Web-side… but now does! Click here or the image below to test it!
Oxygene syntax (aka Delphi Prism) for enumerations was recently added to DWScript, with both enum and flags contextual keywords.
Enumerations scoping was already in, but optional, using these keywords make scoping explicitly required.
On this StackOverflow question David Heffernan asked about a hack I’m using in DWScript’s UnifyAssignString.
Planned dates are from March 30th to April 29th, below is an excerpt from the announcement, head over to the PGD Challenge page for more details:
In a couple of weeks we are going to start the next PGD Challenge with a brand new theme. As promised it will be simple, yet fun for creating ideas. The development period will last about 4 weeks, plus a weekend to wrap things up. All are welcome to participate.
It’s going to be a lot of fun. There is lots of possibilities from the theme I’ve picked and I hope you will have fun with it.
All game entries must be made using a Pascal-based programming language or they will be disqualified. The game can take advantage of any game library or API written in another language, but the core of the game must be written in a Pascal-based language.
Allowed Pascal-based Languages:
Key Development tools that support the above languages: