Ada Monthly Meetup, 1st of March 2025

Events
1

Hello everybody!

I would like to announce the March (2025) Ada Monthly Meetup which will be taking place on the 1st of March at 14:00 UTC time (15:00 CET). As always the meetup will take place over at Jitsi. The Meetup will also be livestreamed/recorded to Youtube.

If someone would like to propose a talk or a topic, feel free to do so! We currently have no proposals.

Here are the connection details from previous posts:
The meetup will take place over at Jitsi, a conferencing software that runs on any modern browser. The link is Jitsi Meet The room name is “AdaMonthlyMeetup” and in case it asks for a password, it will be set to “AdaRules”.
I do not want to set up a password, but in case it is needed, it will be the one above without the quotes. The room name is generally not needed as the link should take you directly there, but I want to write it down just in case someone needs it.

I will talk a bit about FOSDEM, how it went and the overall experience. I will also talk about the Ada Developers Workshop, which will take place during AEiC 2025, which we still need to make public but we have been accepted officially :slight_smile:

Best regards and see you soon!
Fer

P.S: you can see the December summary in Ada Monthly Meeting December 2024

5 Likes
2

I made a card game library that I could talk about (if time permits). I implemented Klondike and Blackjack with it so far.

image
image652Ă—362 15.6 KB

image
image1920Ă—1683 168 KB

image
image992Ă—1674 147 KB

2 Likes
3

Looks like a promising basis to build upon! Would be nice to add a GUI, as applications with “eye candy” usually attract much more attention…

4

Congratulations! It appears you have successfully recreated PragmARC.Cards.*, which has been around since about 1990 (though not publicly available until 2000). I’ve used it to create a number of terminal-based card games.

I also created a package to draw cards using Ada GUI, and have converted two solitaire games to use it (a game I learned as Devil [also called Demon] and one called Aces High [also called Aces Up]). It’s suitable for my uses, but people would probably want it fancied up for public use.

1 Like