Issue 23.2 ("Making Mancala")

In this issue:

Making Mancala by Marc Zeedar

Marc grew up in Africa playing Mancala, an ancient board game where you "sow" seeds into holes. He found some 50-year-old BASIC code and thought it would be easy to convert to Xojo. It turned out to be rather challenging!

Controlling a Raspberry Pi Pico WH by Eugene Dakin

Xojo cannot run on the Raspberry Pi Pico WH directly, so Eugene shows how to use MicroPython on the Pico WH to run tasks from a connected Raspberry Pi via UART.

Making PDFs Faster by Marc Zeedar

Back in xDev 11.1 Marc wrote an app for converting Markdown/HTML files to PDF using wkhtmltopdf. In those days Xojo could only do one thing at a time, so converting a batch of files was slow. Now that preemptive threads are here, we can speed up the process!

Finding Clients by Tim Dietrich

In this issue's "The Business of Xojo" series, Tim shows how to find consulting clients and gives tips on how to market your business.

Plus: An interview with Geoff Perlman, using GameInput classes, custom sorting routines, building Xojo Tennis game, and more!