​​Register for Sencha's upcoming webinar. Oct 16 4:00 pm. Learn what the future holds for Sencha through the end of 2020.
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11505/373804

​​Learn how to automate your industry, instrument your laboratories, and connect to the internet of things. The upcoming webinar discusses how you can use RAD Studio in these tasks. Join Jim McKeeth in this session tomorrow, Oct 16, 12 PM CDT.
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4938441484901144066

A new TMS VCL control allows validating user-input on the fly. The video shows how to use the TAdvEdit VCL control to support the user while entering data.
https://flixengineering.com/archives/1144

The team behind SecureBlackbox has updated their library and added support for remote signing mode in S/MIME components.
https://www.componentsource.com/news/feature-releases/2019/10/07/secureblackbox

​​How to get REST JSON results into a database? No doubt, you have to do this manually. But there are components in Delphi that make this job relatively easy and flexible. Take a look at TFDMemTable, TFDQuery, and TFDBatchmove components from the FireDAC library. The video describes how to use them to move data from a TRESTResponse object into an SQLite table. Just watch the video.
https://youtu.be/VfP2AhLHjGY

The Russian software provider RED SOFT became a platinum sponsor of the Firebird Foundation.
https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/red-soft-the-firebird-foundation-platinum-sponsor/

​​Programmer Jokes

How you write your tests is as important as writing them. Take a look at these tips for writing useful unit tests.
https://medium.com/better-programming/13-tips-for-writing-useful-unit-tests-ca20706b5368

​​Good news: Inno Setup 6.0.3 released! This is a free and powerful installer app that supports Delphi scripting and allows you installing programs, Delphi components, services, and much more:
http://jrsoftware.org/files/is6-whatsnew.htm

​​Seven weeks from Oct 28th to Dec 19th, videos, slides, code, paper/blog posts, and a way to connect with the speaker.

Join CodeRage 2019 - The Next Revolution in Virtual Conferences.
https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/coderage2019

​​Advanced Data Generator 3.3.1 released. Support for Firebird, MySQL, MS SQL, and many more. This interesting program allows generating realistic data, including addresses, business names, Emails, names, etc. using templates, user-defined macros and external samples.
A good alternative to well-known Data Generator from RedGate.
https://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20191002

​​How to implement your own HTTPS Server in Delphi?
The article introduces a fully functional multithreaded HTTP server component for Delphi with SSL/TLS support.
The provided demo program allows you to run a simple static website and access it using a web browser via HTTP or HTTPS protocols.
The sources are available on GitHub.
https://www.clevercomponents.com/articles/article050/

​​Check out a list of free resources from TMS Software: AdvQueryDialog, TaskDialog, WebGMaps, and many more: https://flixengineering.com/free-resources
Watch videos:
https://flixengineering.com/archives/1177

​​Programmer Jokes 😂

​​Check out this interesting open source project. TFrameStand and TFormStand components add animations, transitions, and other effects to your FireMonkey (FMX) applications. You can easily customize buttons, edit boxes, implement bottom sheet UI elements, and much more. Just clone the repository and see the demos.
https://github.com/andrea-magni/TFrameStand

​​The team behind CleverComponents published a new example for the TableDataComparer component. This example shows how to compare and syncrhonize two Firebird DB tables using a user-defined SQL script to select records. The connection is implemented via the FireDAC library. The sources a available on GitHub. Read on the blog:
https://www.clevercomponents.com/portal/news/68/a-new-example-for-the-tabledatacomparer-component-was-added_.aspx

An interesting article will help you to choose between two leading data transferring technologies. REST vs SOAP, JSON vs XML - which one to choose? When should I use JSON? Lets read and discuss.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3222851/what-is-json-a-better-format-for-data-exchange.html

​​Check out this powerful project. DWScript is an object-oriented Delphi scripting language for Delphi. It fully supports classes, with polymorphism, meta-classes and interfaces, can be executed from Delphi apps, and much more.
Recently, the team behind DWScript has added support for the BigInteger type. It is mapped to the BigInt JavaScript type, which is now supported by the major web browsers.
https://www.delphitools.info/dwscript

​​Off-topic: Do you often attend conferences or travel a lot? Take a look at these simple tips to protect your data when conencting your phone or a laptop to free WiFi and public USB cable.
PS: In addition to this article, there are different methods to prevent USB data transferring, e.g., programmatically switching off USB ports or modifying the USB cable and end connectors. Which methods to choose? Just read the article, search the Internet, and decide:
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/protecting-your-data-at-conferences/

​​Programmer Jokes. By Meme Generator.