USA users of BlackBox

[DGDanforth]

In an effort to "market" BlackBox it would be useful to me to know of all of you
in the USA who are using BlackBox. If you would be so kind, please post your name
so we can form a USA group. No commitment to do anything at this time.
I just want to establish the group and see what happens.

-Doug Danforth

[atersol]

Antony Tersol

[lschwerdfager]

Lance Schwerdfager ... I'm actually Canadian but that should be sufficiently close to qualify.

[adimetrius]

Lance Schwerdfager ... I'm actually Canadian but that should be sufficiently close to qualify.

Lance, Could you share how you use BB?

[lschwerdfager]

I have been using BlackBox in my personal projects at home for years now. I'm currently designing a product that small business owners can use to manage inventory and to assess trends in changes to that inventory over time. I have another that manages ticket distribution for charity events (I'm a part time musician whose band plays benefits for various charities, both local and international).

The reason I chose these two projects is because I wanted to respectively implement a practical application that is based on on a minimum heap data structure and then another based on an AVL tree. Being able to implement persistent objects by inheriting from Stores.Store renders use of a third party DBMS completely unnecessary.

I would be very interested in participating in a project of reasonable size that might have some real commercial potential. I haven't been able to identify any such project anywhere and am amazed that is the case. As we all know, BlackBox Component Builder is a fabulous development environment that, together with Component Pascal, has tremendous potential. Why things seem to have been overshadowed by Java, C#, etc., thus keeping that potential unrealized, is beyond me. It must only be because these languages are keeping the C legacy alive.

[lschwerdfager]

I have been reading recently about team lancing, wherein a number of freelance developers establish a project team to develop a product that no single one of them would have the resources to create on his or her own. As a retired software development professional, with both a Bachelor of Science in applied math and a Bachelor of Computer Science in scientific/engineering applications development, I would love to join such a team lancing project with other Component Pascal/Blackbox enthusiasts. Just think, there'd be no bureaucratic 'oversight' involved, no political game-playing, just pure creativity and real co-operation with peer developers to create something worthwhile. Creating a world-shaking application just might cause Component Pascal to be widely recognised as the gem it is and finally relieve the overwhelming complexity that software development has now fallen into.

Why can't a team of freelancers together create a set of components that together supply the functionality that a world-shaking application would be based on?

So if you find this idea intriguing, please let know and we can then start to get such a project on the road.