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

Check out this list of App Ideas you can start coding today. Coding is a skill that constantly needs to be sharpened.

Read and leave your response here 👍
https://medium.com/better-programming/heres-a-list-of-app-ideas-you-could-start-coding-today-b5f33f94a42e

​​Cool, Embarcadero has announced a roadmap for the next version 10.4. They promise managed records, new VCL components, Language Server Protocol for Delphi, lots of platform enhancements, and many more. There is no exact date for release or beta.

Let's stay tuned 👍
https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/get-ready-for-the-10-4-beta-with-update-subscription

Everybody knows that the best practice to debug Android apps is to run them on a real mobile device. But sometimes, we cannot do that. In such a case Android emulators may be a good solution 👍

Check out this video, which describes how to setup the Nox Android Emulator for Delphi Android programming. See also the comments. They are really helpful 🔥
https://youtu.be/TBdfoMeow7w

CleverComponents has published two new tutorials, which describe how to sign and encrypt an Email message in the S/MIME format using X509 certificates, and send the protected message via the SMTP protocol 🔐 Both examples utilize the NIST sha-512 algorithm and X509 digital certificates.
The sources are available on GitHub.

Check out the video for these tutorials 👍
https://youtu.be/8FkmuSXobhU

Send Signed Email
https://www.clevercomponents.com/portal/kb/a151/send-signed-email.aspx

Send S/MIME Message
https://www.clevercomponents.com/portal/kb/a150/send-s-mime-message.aspx

​​What an interesting site, especially its name 😂 - i Hate Regex! Here you can use the templates of many useful regular expressions. You can also compose and test your own written expression.

The image below shows the regex for an Email address 👍
https://ihateregex.io/

Recently discovered the following interesting article: the author describes how to compile MuPDF lib to a DLL for use in C#:
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1190061/Compiling-MuPDF-DLL-to-Render-and-Edit-PDF-Documen

MuPDF is an open-sourced, high performance PDF library. As a Delphi developer, I asked myself, is there a way to use it in Delphi? After googling, I found a topic on sql.ru. The resource is in Russian, but provides a lot of useful links and notes. As always, Chrome rules 👍

https://www.sql.ru/forum/1151850/kto-nibud-delal-paskalevskuu-obertku-nad-mupdf-libmupdf-dll

​​Wow, here is a huge list of software and other offerings that have free tiers for developers. Clouds, APIs, ML, Testing... Just check it out, may be you will find something useful for yourself 👀

https://free-for.dev/

Do you need to digitally sign your Delphi app? Check out this article. Olaf Monien, the author of this post, has recently translated his German tutorial to English.

This is really helpful information in one place 🔥
https://www.developer-experts.net/en/2018/06/15/signing-windows-delphi-applications/

​​Woah, a long-awaited release 🎉 CleverComponents has published the Clever Internet Suite version 9.5. This new version improves the HTTP RIO and SFTP client components, provides new cryptographic keys and algorithms. There are fixes for problems with digital signatures and 64bit support in the SSH engine.

BTW: they also provide time-limited discounts for their products 👍
https://www.clevercomponents.com/products/inetsuite/

​​It's pity to know that the new Pascon Conference has been postponed because of the Corona Virus 🙁

Will wait for the future date announce.
https://www.blaisepascalmagazine.eu/events/

There is a new video by Embarcadero Tech. Rapid C++ Development, with Rob Swindell - Object & Library Compatibilities. The video guides you through object and library file formats, and demonstrates how to integrate externally built object files with your C++Builder app 👀

Let's watch this Video 👍
https://youtu.be/5ZFV-ACDIVg

Code is the backbone of most software programs and applications. But what if you could build software without writing a single line of code? That’s the premise behind no-code development, a software development method that has been gathering momentum 👀

Read more in this blog post 👍
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/programming-without-code-no-code-software-development

Check out a new video that shows how to make a remote procedure call to a REST service with WS-Security data protection and x509 digital signatures. The example communicates with a C# WCF REST service. This service implements a simple algorithm, which converts Celsius to Fahrenheit, and vice versa.

Both SOAP requests and responses are digitally signed and encrypted using x509 cryptographic keys. The sources are available on GitHub 🔥
https://youtu.be/YrvUzdfTpFA

​​Do you hate to wait for compilation completed? Check out these tips by Radek Červinka, Embarcadero MVP. In addition to well-known IDEFixPack, he proposes some tricks, which allow you to speed-up the compilation process in Delphi 🤨

As always, use Chrome to translate 👍
https://delphi.cz/post/Delphi-trik-5-zrychleni-kompilace.aspx