When our team brainstormed about giveaways for the holiday season, we came up with several ideas.

As we could not choose between these 3 ideas, we decided to combine all ideas into one action.

So, we created a Delphi TMS WEB Core application of which we give away the full source code and via this web application, you can get the 25% discount coupon codes for new licenses of TMS WEB Core, TMS FNC Component Studio, TMS BIZ Premium and a 20% discount coupon code for TMS ALL-ACCESS. Finally, when submitting your email address for claiming the full source code of the project you participate in the contest where we give away 3 TMS WEB Core books!  

Head over to the TMS WEB Core XMas web app at https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/xmas and click the gift boxes to find the discount coupon codes and click again on the coupon code to start the order using the discount. Submit your name & email to participate in the contest to win one of 3 TMS WEB Core books and get the full source code of this TMS WEB Core web app!

The XMas app is actually simple but shows some interesting techniques. First of all, it is fully based on a HTML template. It should work fine on a smartphone, tablet or desktop computer. In this particular case, we did not use the new introduced Responsive Manager to create the responsive design, but used classic Bootstrap with media queries from the HTML template for the form. We've used the JavaScript particle.js library to have the effect of falling snowflakes. Particle.js is a powerful library that features tons of customizations through CSS to create animations in a website. You can see here different transparencies set to snowflakes, rotation of snowflakes and a sort of random falling down movements. To participate for the contest, an endpoint was created via a script on the server tmssoftware.com and this endpoint receives & stores the name, email address and boolean whether the email address can be used to send our newsletter or not. This information is sent via a HTTPS request. The boxes from where the discount coupon codes are revealed are made from images shown via a TWebImageControl component and when it is clicked the image URL is changed to show an image of an opened box.

We wish you a fantastic holiday period with your friends & family and hopefully some spare time to explore some new Delphi programming ideas!