​​Join Jim McKeeth, a Chief Developer Advocate, on upcoming webinar to celebrate Delphi's 25th Birthday. Friday, Feb 14, 2020 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM GMT.

👉 In fact, Delphi is still the best solution for developing Windows applications in 32 and 64-bits.

But today, it also supports macOS, Android, iOS, and Linux 🔥
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8514999980241029644

Check out this DevArt's video, which shows how to create a simple multi-platform chat app in RAD Studio using Devart SecureBridge.

The used TScHubConnection component implements the functionality of a SignalR client and pushes content to connected clients as soon as it becomes available without waiting the client to request data 👍
https://youtu.be/G6b_6rWYvXo

Many of us writing procedures tend to write in code blocks. We write the SELECT, JOINS, FROMs and WHERES then immediately follow it up with and ORDER BY as a way to check result sets before moving onto the next block of code.

⁉️Have you every thought about a cost? Often can lead to suboptimal performance not only of your procedure but also for TEMPDB as this is where all sorting takes place.

Monica Rathbun, a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform, gives you a food for thought in this blog post 👍
https://sqlespresso.com/2020/01/29/sorting-in-stored-procedures-food-for-thought/

Check out this interesting video. Relative Panels, Split Views...Ray Konopka will show you how to incorporate Windows 10 look into your C++Builder & RAD Studio apps.

Just watch this video to learn how 🔥
https://youtu.be/9tpiWGAf-5w

​​The following Embarcadero Blog shows how to create PDF Reports in RAD Server not only in VCL, but also in FMX on macOS ☝️
https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/creating-pdf-reports-in-rad-server

How to read other people’s code? Write simple maintainable code?

Read on seven skills of effective programmers 🔥
https://medium.com/better-programming/7-habits-of-highly-effective-programmers-563ee3b63f33

​​Happy Delphi 25th 🎉 For this wonderful celebration, CleverComponents prepared gifts - 25% off on all Database and Internet components.

You can get a gift on their website 🎁
https://www.clevercomponents.com/order/

​​FastReports has updated their OLAP tool for Delphi 🚀

Check out what's new in FastCube VCL 2.10: easier to add calculated measures or totals, IgnoreCase option for range expressions, and many more 👍
https://www.fast-report.com/en/news/440/

​​Wow, Microsoft is working on a new tool that allows customizing the keyboard keys without having to edit the Windows registry. Do you need to remap your CTRL key? Keyboard Manager will do it for you.

🚀 I remember, there was a CleverComponents's tool, Clever Keyboard Indicator, which allowed to customize keyboard pressing actions.

At the moment, it seems that Microsoft’s tool is still in the early development phase, and it’s not clear when the app would become a part of the stable release 👍
https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/02/06/microsoft-is-working-on-keyboard-manager-for-windows-10/

​​Read this interesting blog. There are 25 Delphi Tips for 25 Years of Delphi: running apps from network shares, getting the type of an object when you only have its address, and many more 👍
http://blog.blong.com/2020/02/25-delphi-tips-for-25-years-of-delphi.html

How to sort a linked list using the Merge Sort Algorithm? Just read this article. The provided algorithm is in C, but it can be easily translated to C++Builder, Delphi, or any other language ☝️
https://helloacm.com/using-recursive-merge-sort-algorithm-to-sort-a-linked-list-in-onlogn

​​Wow, Jim McKeeth, Developer Advocate and Engineer at Embarcadero Technologies, has shared the new free issue of Blaise Pascal Magazine (85) 🎉
The issue includes Delphi VCL Essentials Training, interview with Anders Hejlsber, Borland Museum, and much more.

Just check it out here 🔥
https://www.blaisepascalmagazine.eu/9634-2/

AI, data science, clouds... do you know that almost half of security threats faced by the modern organisation are cloud-enabled? They are using cloud services and apps to scam employees, phish for information, deliver malware, formjack and steal data.

Read more in this investigation ☝️
https://www.itproportal.com/news/nearly-half-of-security-threats-are-cloud-enabled/

I have no words 🔥 An Object Pascal-native low level data loader and writer for GLTF and GLB files. The library is available on GitHub.

Just watch this video to see how it works 👍
https://youtu.be/9o9EV3DzvWo

Agile software development is dead...Hm, I heard these predictions at least, since 2014'th. But in fact, this technology is still widely discussed and used by many teams. At least, attempts to use. One fact that everyone can agree on, however: It has been 19 years now since the Agile Manifesto was born.

What changed and what the future? Let's read the article 👉
https://siliconangle.com/2020/02/03/agile-software-development-dead-deal/

​​What a Full-Stack Programmer is?
If you want to do a Full-Stack with Delphi, tell you that if you use the Windows Stack-Desktop-Favorite DB, you are already complying with all this in your VCL apps. But if we put ourselves in another stack, for example, Web Server-Linux-REST API-JavaScript, then we must change our thinking and how to do things 👀

Just read this blog post. It's in Spanish, but Chrome rules 🔥
https://emiliopm.com/blog-programacion/

​​Do you know, what is the difference between "git pull" and "git fetch"? Many of us use GitHub and/or GitLab and don't ever mind about the intricacies 😲

Check out this conversation thread to refresh your knowledge 👌
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/292357/what-is-the-difference-between-git-pull-and-git-fetch

​​Wow, US-based Firefox users will get encrypted DNS lookups today or within a few weeks 🔥

Does anybody know a good Delphi library, which supports DNS queries over TLS? Share your knowledge in our Facebook group 👉
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/firefox-turns-encrypted-dns-on-by-default-to-thwart-snooping-isps/

Embarcadero Technologies has shared a new video, where Thomas Theobald recounts his experiences with Delphi and how it has touched and changed his life 🔥

Let's watch and Like 👍
https://youtu.be/AQ-1-1Qhuwk

The latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report eloquently argues that aside from wireless, the form factor of mobile in and of itself poses security risks 😲

Users dealing with email on a mobile device, an incredibly common happening in corporate campuses, are far more susceptible to a phishing attack then on a typical desktop device.

What to do about this? Learn more in this article 👉
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3527227/mobile-security-worse-than-you-thought.html