Smart Contest 2013 – Round #2
The second Smart Context 2013 has been announced! As with the previous round, first prize is a tablet device of your own choice (up to USD 750). This time the theme is “Game Development”
Gaining Visual Basic OLE super-powers
Visual Basic in its various incarnations and off-springs has super-powers when it comes to OLE Automation, aka late-bound COM through IDispatch.
Where do they come from?
What would get you to buy a newer Delphi version?
This is a practical poll question, what would get you to buy a newer Delphi version?
What would you like to see most and foremost, and would most have a use for?
To force you to choose, you can only pick two items!
Not in (interpreted) Kansas anymore
For a few weeks now, an experimental JIT compiler has been available in the DWScript SVN for 32bits code. A more detailed article into the hows and whats and WTFs will come later.
Consider this article as an extended teaser, and a sort of call for test cases, benchmarks and eyeballs on the source code.
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DWScript showcase: AquaSoft SlideShow
Answering the call for showcases, Steffen Binas prepared a very nice set of screenshots for AquaSoft‘s Slide Show impressive product, which went far beyond the minimal requirement, so I’m posting a full-blown article about it. Following is the presentation of their software and how DWScript is used inside it.
When you need a powerful showcase I’d bet AquaSoft SlideShow is the one: http://www.aquasoft.de/diashow
Despite the simple name of the application it’s very powerful, just have look at the trailer video created completely with it.
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