Samples in Lazarus/FPC source and wiki
lazarus / 8-Other

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BigChimp · 2011-08-30 10:37

I've been tinkering with some database tutorials on the wiki and
thought how nice it would be if the examples in the source code, as
well as the tutorials on the wiki would be... aligned or matched.

By that I mean that there could be one theme/architecture that the
examples build on.

Take Sekelsenmat's http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpChess: we
could have a DBF database (with example) that store chess games,
Tatamata's CSV db with the same, an XML import/export format, we could
use web services to play chess over the internet, demonstrate use of
configuration, etc.

Just like Microsoft SQL Server has AdventureWorks, Firebird has
employee.fdb, Delphi has the fish catalogue, etc...

Of course, that would require effort by example/tutorial writers, and
I doubt it will happen, but it would be very cool to have (the
building blocks for) a great chess environment (or CRM tool, or
whatever) !

(And I don't even like to play chess  )

What do you think?