This Month In RAD Studio - April 2019. New Editor features in 10.3.1, the RAD Server console gets a shiny new look, Web development in Delphi and 3rd party components updates.
https://youtu.be/f-Axs_W0z8U

How code reviews work at Microsoft. By Michaela Greiler.
https://mgreiler.hashnode.dev/how-code-reviews-work-at-microsoft-cjv3ecbkc002564s1devpzggu

​​Can We Measure Software Development Productivity? If you go to Google and search for "measuring software developer productivity" you will find a whole lot of nothing... By Nick Hodges.
https://buff.ly/2vIzYYy

​​Upcoming webinar: Building Applications with FireDAC. Join FireDAC guru Cary Jensen for this information-packed presentation that shows you how to build world-class database applications using FireDAC.
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2696910006328910605

​​TMS Component pack v9.1.0.0 has been released. VCL Styles support and much more.
https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmspack.asp

GpProfile allows easily find bottlenecks and significantly improve perfomance of your Delphi applications. It is a must-have tool for any Delphi developer.
https://github.com/ase379/gpprofile2017

A Hidden Vulnerability of Test-Driven Development. By RT Ranorex. Test-driven development (TDD), continuous testing and related practices have many advantages, including more flexibility, easier code maintenance, and a faster development cycle. But they also have a weakness...
https://www.ranorex.com/blog/test-driven-development/

GitHub introduced the GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code. By Simina Pasat.
https://github.blog/2019-05-10-introducing-github-package-registry/

How to Be Unpopular in the Coding World?
https://helloacm.com/how-to-be-unpopular-in-the-coding-world/

​​Programmers Joke:

Here are some tips from EmbarcaderoTech on how budding appdevelopers can create amazing cross-platform applications. By Grey Matter.
https://codematters.online/smarter-cross-platform-app-development/

​​MiTeC Portable Executable Reader 2.0 has been released. It is based on TObject class and contains complete interface for reading It reads and displays executable file properties and structure. It is compatible with PE32 (Portable Executable), PE32+ (64bit), NE (Windows 3.x New Executable) and VxD (Windows 9x Virtual Device Driver) file types. .NET executables are supported too. It enumerates introduced classes, used units and forms for files compiled by Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers. It identifies numerous compilers and some exe packers and protectors. Here are enumerated structures that are evaluated: DOS, File, Optional and CLR headers, CLR Metadata streams, and much more. By Michal Mutl.
https://www.mitec.cz/

The Database Comparer VCL version 7.1 released. RAD Studio 10.3 Rio support, fixed some existing problems, implemented the CROSS APPLY statement for the SELECT command, default values for stored procedure parameters, and much more. By Clever Components.
https://www.clevercomponents.com/products/dbcvcl/

​​Arpy Web Application Framework: the Dev Trial 0.2 Merge completed. Arpy is a multi-platform framework for Delphi implementing the Request-Response Pipeline approach to web development. Support from D2010 to RIO. Should be on GetIt soon. By Glen Kleidon.
https://galkam.visualstudio.com/ArpyDocs/_wiki/wikis/ArpyDocs.wiki

​​Clever Components has published a special 20% discount on all products. The coupon code is valid until June 20, See more here:
https://www.clevercomponents.com/order/

​​A very important third party C++ library - we're glad to announce that the Boost library is now available for C++Builder and RAD Studio 10.3.1. Find it in the GetIt packager manager today. By Embarcadero Tech.
https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/boost-for-c-builder-10-3-1

​​Programmers Joke

​​Twilio & SurveyMonkey - May 2019 Enterprise Connector Spotlight. By Jim McKeeth.
https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/twilio-surveymonkey---may-2019-enterprise-connector-spotlight

DevExpress has updated their VCL Subscription. The new version improves the Editors library, Bars, Grid, Layout, PDFViewer and SpreadSheet controls, plus the Printing system. By ComponentSource.
https://www.componentsource.com/news/feature-releases/2019/05/09/developer-express-vcl-subscription

​​Making Test Data from Real Data - how to mask sensitive data, such as E-mail addresses, phone numbers, etc., in XML and HTML documents, SQL scripts, and any other text-plain files using the DataDepersonalizer tool. By Sergey Shirokov.
https://www.clevercomponents.com/articles/article048/