Darian Miller

The winnner was announced - https://ideasawakened.com/post/rad-programmer-challenge-number-one-winner-announcement Jaques Nascimento Congrats! A serial number for a free license of Pascal Expert from Peganza was emailed earlier today and am currently arranging his $500 prize delivery for his Minesweeper build in RAD Studio. There were 18 contestants with a variety of game features implemented. Two of the games are available on the Google Play store and one user made a video tutorial of his build: - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.imperium.MineSweeper - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abrito.Minesweeper - I hope it was fun for those involved! I am writing up the next one to hopefully start soon.

There were 17 contestants who built their own version of MineSweeper in RAD Studio. View their GitHub repos with this GitHub topic search: https://github.com/topics/radprogrammer-challenge1 Have you given them a star on GitHub yet for their efforts? So far, the one with the most stars has 38. The winner will be announced this week and a new challenge to begin. If you are a third-party tool vendor, and would like to contribute a free license or a discount as part of the prize pool in the next challenge, please reach out to me.

FWIW, not exactly your issue, but I ran into differences in behavior between 10.4 and 12.1 with large number constants https://embt.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/RSS-1297

Is there a resource that lists exactly what VCL Style Utils improves in 12.3? It sounds like a good idea to use it, but I don't know what it does exactly for each version without tearing through the code.

TThreadedQueue has had its problems, but it seems pretty stable now.

My preference would be similar, but I'd start with private const and end with private fields.

I believe many people prefer native desktop applications to the typical bloat of a web application. There are some exceptions, and I am an older guy with heavy bias, but I would pay double for a native desktop application over a browser based application for just about anything. If I wanted to use it on my phone, I'd take a scaled down version, targeted with features needed to be available on-the-go.

The first official entry into the challenge - please give him a star on GitHub! https://github.com/davidreed1666/davidreed @vhanla please finish your entry by adding your link to the GitHub discussion thread.

Congrats! You got two stars on your repo already. Don't forget to follow the rules and add a note to that discussion channel. Include your BTC public address for the potential receipt of tips.

There was a couple questions asked, but I haven't heard much. We'll see how many end up submiting a game. Maybe Marco's 25 year old game will win. 🙂 I plan on doing at least a few of these if there is some participation. These are some ideas for future projects - I welcome any suggestions: - AI ChatBot is the next-up - Specific GitHub build actions to help automate CI tasks for Delphi - VS Code add-ons - Perhaps a couple NVidia-CUDA library focused projects - Game Dev, AI, HPC, Video/Image Processing - Debug Visualizers of various types and other ToolsAPI based projects - Cross Platform Logging Framework (there's a few good ones already) I have some more surprises that I've been working on. One project turned out to be much, much bigger than I thought. We'll see what happens. I want to generate more traffic on social media and GitHub. In general, it seems like Delphi devs are way too quiet online. Yes, there are probably a lot fewer Delphi developers than we hope for, but I know the majority out there aren't actively increasing the visibility of Delphi online. Maybe we are just mostly old-farts who play solitaire on our computer in our off-times... More likely is we're busy at work and don't have time for vibe coding nonsense. 🙂

Thanks - I just joined that group

Sure - you may be the only entry so it could be an easy $500! LOL

Can you create a QP issue for this finding? It may help fix some outstanding issues...

I don't recall hearing that.. that sounds ominous to me. I wonder how long will it take to fix the completely new approach. But it's obvious the current approach isn't working as it's still pretty flaky after 5 years of trying.

Introducing the first RAD Programmer Coding Challenge! Check the blog post for details. https://ideasawakened.com/post/rad-programmer-challenge-number-1-minesweeper-game-build