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

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/