How to make the choices of technology in the database world? When starting developing a new app, you have a wide range of technologies, multiple databases, cloud solutions.

Read on this roadmap, which may help you to choose a right database technology for your project. The author does not claim to be an exhaustive description. You can extend the methodology to cover your project specifics 👍
https://towardsdatascience.com/choosing-a-database-technology-d7f5a61d1e98

​​The guys behind TRichview recently released a new version of their rich text editing components. They ported the SRVControls to Lazarus, updated buttons, panels, editors, and other controls.

Read more here 🔥
https://www.trichview.com/

​​Programmer jokes, photo by Rachid Ighrm.

​​Are you looking for options to remote meetups and community during the current crisis? Check out this interesting list: there are Twitch, Zoom, Mixer, and many more.

You can leave comments, suggest your recommendations, or even join a virtual team to help with this effort 🔥
https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/wg-outreach/issues/10

​​The team behind DelphiDabbler has updated their Delphi components - DDabLib. Woah, the System Information Unit was not updated since 2016'th 😲 They also added a new feature, which returns the host computer's processor speed. You can get the lib on SourceForge.

PS: don't forget to 👍
http://www.delphimagazine.com/2020/03/20/system-information-unit-v5-4-released/

​​Yesterday, the good guys from TMSSoftware announced a component, which connects to one of the most productive collaboration service. Currently many companies and teams are working from home. The updated TMS FNC Cloud Pack and the Slack component allows you to connect, share, update, upload and download content on the various channels under your work project 💪

Check out their blog post to learn more about feautures this component is supporting 👍
https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/blog.asp?post=635

Do you need to convert a Putty PPK private key to RSA/PEM format? Some apps, such as SFTP clients may not support .ppk file format. Check out this short video instruction 👀

This will save your time on googling and investigating the question 👍
https://youtu.be/g88u7qE1nUQ

We’re going through a worldwide disaster that demands a coordinated, global response. The web is one of the most powerful tools we have to tackle Covid-19 together.

Read on this blog post that was written by Adrian Lovett, World Wide Foundation Foundation President 👉
https://webfoundation.org/2020/03/the-web-can-help-more-in-the-fight-against-covid-19-heres-what-we-must-do/

Now, many of us stay home and continue working. It's very important to organize the team collaboration and the whole dev process.

👉 Check out this video. In the session, David Millington and Marco Cantu joined Stephen Ball to discuss their mixed experiences of working from home. Lessons learned, and also tools they use.

The conversation included people from Grey Matter and the UK developer group 👍
https://youtu.be/DOHgddLNz4I

​​FastReport has published a bunch of new features for FastReport VCL and FastReport for Lazarus 🎉
New barcodes with wide editing abilities, improved search in preview and FastReport for Lazarus is finally out of Beta.

See full list here 👍
https://www.fast-report.com/en/news/446/

​​The good guys from CleverComponents decided to support business and solo developers in these difficult days and extended a special offer up to April 19th. You can obtain Internet and Database components at -20% discount.

Check out their website for more details 👍
https://www.clevercomponents.com/order/

​​Do you use GitLab as a private storage for your projects? The good guys from GitLab have published a guide to those, who have to work from home these days.

The guide indeed deserves attention. There are tips for making remote work, detailed documentation, meetings, and many more 👍

The direct download link for the e-book:
https://about.gitlab.com/resources/downloads/ebook-remote-playbook.pdf

​​😂 Image by Digital Quality Academy

​​The team behind TRichview released a new version of the RVMedia components. The new version 7.3 uses GStreamer 1.0 to play video streams in advanced formats, such as H.264.
Check out the product website for more details 👍
https://www.trichview.com/features/rvmedia.html

​​Good guys from Embarcadero continue working on RAD Studio 10.4 Denali. As it's noted in the Roadmap, there will be Language Server Protocol, Metal 2 support, and many other features.

Will wait for beta version 👍

PS: If you doesn't read German, Chrome is the best choice for you 😉
https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/bereit-fur-rad-studio-10-4-beta

Woah, recently, Jim McKeeth has shared a video on how to install Linux on Android with AndroNix. The app allows you to install Ubuntu on Android device without root.

Check out this video and don't forget to 👍
https://youtu.be/jvuufPWKF3k

CleverComponents has published new video tutorials. There are two new videos, which describe how to compare table data in a Firebird and MS SQL databases via FireDAC and ADO.

The sources are available on GitHub 💪

PS: don't forget to 👍
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1dwVVhW9InUcovvbK8EEt4EdDSVACzQl

​​To those who is interested in web security - a good reading while sitting at home these days 😀

Recently, I saw a free course from Stanford University - CS 253 Web Security 🔐 The speaker is Feross Aboukhadijeh, a developer of YouTube Instant - a real-time search engine that allows its users to search the YouTube video database as they type.

The course is definitely worth your attention 👍
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs253/

​​Check out a good alternative to IBExpert - Firebird Editor Pro. Recently, Lasse Markus Rautiainen, the author of this free administration tool, has released a new version 2.0.1 🎉

BTW, the same author also develops an interesting text editor. You can find it on the same website 👍
https://www.texteditor.pro/firebird/

​​Recently, while looking through Facebook groups news, I found a mention about one interesting open-source Delphi project 👀

As the guys claim, NetCom7 is the fastest possible implementation of socket communications, which can handle as many as 2000 requests per second. After looking through the sources, I discovered that the library utilizes the blocking socket model 😲

Just check it out and leave your feedback.
https://github.com/DelphiBuilder/NetCom7