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Borland C++ Builder Contest / C++ Builder Contest Webpage is Live

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 07:26 PM »

April 07, 2006

DonationCoder.com and Borland announced a donationware programming contest featuring Borland's C++ Builder Rapid Application Development tool for Microsoft Windows.

The contest runs for approximately three months, from April 10 to July 14.

Over $15,000 in programming-related prizes will be awarded, including Enterprise and Professional editions of C++ Builder.

Programs will be judged in a variety of categories including small utilities, academic tools, web applications, and more. Judging will be by members of Borland and DonationCoder.com, with public participation.

Winning programs will be prominently spotlighted on the DonationCoder.com website and be made available to the public as donationware. All donations will go directly to the original authors.

Contest website: http://bcbcontest.donationcoder.com


Read the Official Borland BDN entry.

Please help spread the news and let fellow programmers know about the contest.  Even people new to C++ Builder are welcome to participate.


This forum section is now open for discussion on all issues relating to the contest and C++ Builder.  We welcome entrants to make their programs available for public or private beta testing throughout the duration of the contest.

One of the really unique aspects of the contest is that winning entries will be spotlighted on the DonationCoder.com website as donationware and we will try to help authors get donations for their program (all donations will go to the author of course).

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Official Announcements / Re: Giant C++ Builder Programming Contest at DonationCoder.com - over $15K of prizes

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 07:18 PM »

Read the Official Borland BDN entry.

Please help spread the news and let fellow programmers know about the contest.  Even people new to C++ Builder are welcome to participate.

We've also set up a section of the forum specifically to talk about the contest, C++ Builder, and beta test entries.

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Official Announcements / Giant C++ Builder Programming Contest at DonationCoder.com - over $15K of prizes

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 07:18 PM »

April 07, 2006

DonationCoder.com and Borland announced a donationware programming contest featuring Borland's C++ Builder Rapid Application Development tool for Microsoft Windows.

The contest runs for approximately three months, from April 10 to July 14.

Over $15,000 in programming-related prizes will be awarded, including Enterprise and Professional editions of C++ Builder.

Programs will be judged in a variety of categories including small utilities, academic tools, web applications, and more. Judging will be by members of Borland and DonationCoder.com, with public participation.

Winning programs will be prominently spotlighted on the DonationCoder.com website and be made available to the public as donationware. All donations will go directly to the original authors.

Contest website: http://bcbcontest.donationcoder.com

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Living Room / Massive collection of dynamic image generators (add text to image)

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 12:27 PM »

http://www.customsigngenerator.com






from http://www.furl.net/

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Living Room / Re: Giant devil rabbit terrorises village

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 11:42 AM »

are you sure it's not this guy:




http://news.bbc.co.u..._4676900/4676904.stm

 

Herman the giant rabbit
 
A man has been showing off his gigantic rabbit named Herman.
The mighty bunny weighs a massive 7.7kg, and his ears are a lengthy 21cm - almost as long as most pet rabbits are tall. And he is almost 1m tall.

The German Giant is even big for his breed, which usually tip the scales at around 6kg.

Herman lives in a specially built solid oak hutch and chomps his way through just over 2kg of food a day. His owner says his favourite snack is lettuce.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 10:16 AM »

cpilot i understood your idea completely, and i like it.
im just taking the opportunity at every stage to remind us all that we want to take care in all we do not to lose the spirit of the site.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 07:39 AM »

i would agree that we have to be very careful that we dont turn this play into just another sell things for highest price site.  we all know that is not what dc is about.  we have to make sure we keep with the donation-based spirit.

it's fine if people want to make arrangements for fees for bigger projects - i am all in favor of people finding jobs here. i think that would be a nice thing.

but we just want to make sure we dont lose the generous nature of the place.

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fSekrit / Re: Progress report etc.

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 06:31 AM »

this is a really interesting issue i hadn't even considered..
looking forward to hear what you come up with.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 06:08 AM »

It would be like the "search for a specific user" feature, but would list all the members that posted at once. Then you could go down the list and give as you see fit.

this is actually a good idea as well.. just have to figure out how to implement it in current framework.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 06:08 AM »

matching credits - now that is brilliant.
ok you win a prize with that one. makes so much sense. we can have funds where the site promises to pledge matching credits. really nice idea.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Banners

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 04:30 AM »

Perfect timing for this question.

Now that we've got the DonationCredits system in place i feel like we can finally provide a reasonably easy way for them to receive donations, and have a more symbiotic relationship to the rest of the site.

This was a major motivation for the DonationCredits thing - to make it easier for programmers and reviewers to receive donations.

Now we just have to figure out a sensible policy for adding more software and authors.. We need to discuss this more here at the forum.


some other side notes:

anyone on the site is welcome to put a link on their own offsite pages to the donation page for them at DonationCoder.com.
here's some sample html code that shows a gold coin that will link to your donation page, just change ######## to your userid number, which you can find by clicking the profile button above and then clicking "account settings on the left", and then look it the url address above and copy the number after the u=

<a href="https://www.donation...sa=search;fields=uid"><img src="https://www.donation...mages/dcgoldcoin.gif" style="vertical-align:bottom;margin: 0 0ex;" alt="donate to author" />&nbsp;Donate to author.</a>

when users click that they will be taken to your donation page here where they will read your blurb donation profile and can either donate to you with credits if they are a member, or visit your offsite paypal donation page if you've configured one.  for more info on configuring these see: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2942.0


another point:
we are about to start a huge C++ Builder programming contest which might be perfect for making a windows version of your program; prizes for the winners plus we'll be spotlighting winning programs to try to get them some donations.  seems like might be a perfect match

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Banners

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 03:49 AM »

great to see you are using it
yes you are a full charter member now so of course you can use that

i'd love to see more buttons and banners staring cody.

we will offer some donationcoder.com cups as prizes to the best ones

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2006, 02:19 AM »

it's really a fantastic idea, but that's the only question - whether the existing graphics-centric board dont already do this well enough to make it a bad idea for us to try to do it here also.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 11:21 PM »

i am always open to providing web space to people who need it and dont have other resources.

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Best Music Service / Re: Napster not good for casual music purchasers.

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 03:20 PM »

i definitely think a new shootout is in order soon, since the first one is a year old.

your points are well taken and have been raised by others, and i think really that there are probably two very different audiences who would like 2 very different answers.

for me,
i get the most fun from exploring music and downloading a lot to listen to for a short time.  and maybe burn some to cd for permanence.

so for me, what i like most is unlimited downloads for small monthly fee.  and the drm stuff doesnt bother me too much since ill just burn it to cd if i want it forever.

but a lot of people go more for downloading the songs they already know they want to own - in which case these "rent-like" drm models are totally unacceptable.

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for April 3, 2006 - Codename 'Happy Birthday to Us'

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 03:16 PM »

i tried veign, but someone is camping on it so it doesn't look possible.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Language for professional, sellable software?

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 08:21 AM »

codeproject.com is one of the best resources for windows development on the planet.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Language for professional, sellable software?

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 07:27 AM »

we are about to run a huge contest for c++ builder, a RAD C++ tool that is used a lot in my programming.
i'm a big fan and we're going to be giving out over $15k in prizes.. might be a good time to give it a try

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: right-click context menu extension trigger from commandline? possible?

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 07:25 AM »

here's an interesting idea for a coding snack, for someone who knows a bit of windows and dll stuff..

the idea was inspired by a trouble using a right click context menu extension to upload an image to imageshack.

as you know there are right-click explorer context menu extensions..

what i was thinking would be a small commandline tool that would be invoked like this:

SimulateRightClick.exe "shellextension.dll" "c:\myfile.jpg"

or something like that.

i don't know how practical this is, but you get the idea - the exe would act as a wrapper around the shell extension, triggering it on a specific file.  the shell extension menu would then want to pop up of course (center of screen?).

dont even know if this is possible... maybe a windows expert like db90h will know..

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Official Announcements / Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 07:13 AM »

The DonationCredits system is quite flexible -
one of the nice things we implemented was the ability to create "fund" accounts which people can donate into and which show their current status and goal, and are listed on the donate page (click the gold coin at top of page).

one particularly interesting aspect of funds is that it's easy to make a fund where which treats money donated to it as a "pledge" which can be refunded if the project is canceled.

that is, we could set up a fund to do something, for example let's say we wanted to have a party, so we say that if we can raise $500 then we can book a hotel, and if we can't raise it by a certain date, all money would get refunded automatically.  the nice idea here is that it lets people avoid the risk of putting in money and losing it if project is canceled.  The credit system was designed for these kinds of cancelations so it's very easy to do.

now i'm sure there are some more novel ideas that would be in keeping with this spirit of this site.. can you think of any?

we'll give away some prize credits to anyone who can come up with a novel innovative thing to add to DonationCredits...

What can you come up with?

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Living Room / Re: A personal note about DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 07:01 AM »

whew, ok cool
you had me scared there for a minute.

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Living Room / Re: A personal note about DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 06:59 AM »

hey what happened to carols post?

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Living Room / Re: A personal note about DonationCredits

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 06:58 AM »

nice find carol, let me check it out.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 06:56 AM »

nice!

i should point out, as i've done on a separate thread, that the banner you see now on the pages is not the final banner chosen as our new banner - we are just testing out different banners and no final decision has been made.

we're going to be trying out some of toxmox's soon too

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Living Room / Re: cody has some eggs?

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2006, 05:59 AM »

look at Cody's wings! He have need an ghostwriter!

hahahaahahahahaahaha