​​Woah, just read about Lazarus 2.0.8 release 🎉 The new version was build with FPC 3.0.4 and available for download on SourceForge.

Check out their website for more details and don't forget to 👍 this post!
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,49356.0.html

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Take a look at a tutorial that explains how to create and extract the contents of a .p7m file, load a signing certificate from a .pfx file or Windows registry storage, verify the digital signature and extract certificates from a .p7m file.

👉 The detailed description can be read here: https://buff.ly/3eFZN0w
The sources are available on GitHub.

Watch the video on YouTube and don't forget to 👍
https://youtu.be/Xdma8xDW0mY

​​Marco Cantu has tweeted about one cool website 👀 LearnDelphi.org is a list of programming tutorials for beginners in Delphi. This is the home for learning to code with Delphi.

👉There are lots of educational resources, videos, and a blog. Just check it out 👍
https://learndelphi.org/

Upcoming live coding session to write a web based game using Delphi. The session will be on 25. & 26.04. 14:00 UTC. You will have the ability to chat with MVP's and ask interested questions.

Don't miss this event 🔥
https://youtu.be/eJL_kp92N1Q

​​Check out one interesting Delphi Firemonkey tool.

🧐 It allows you to build Delphi and C++Builder projects concurrently in parallel. The utility uses the TDirectory.GetFiles function to pull in all of the DPROJ and CBPROJ files recursively from a directory. After that, it uses TTask, MSBuild, and an ExecAndWait function to run multiple compiles of the different projects at the same time. You can compile Windows, Android, OCX, and other projects simultaneously.

The good guys from FMX Express has published the sources on GitHub 🔥
https://github.com/FMXExpress/Delphi-Parallel-Build

​​Yesterday, Embarcadero Technologies has published a short video about IBM Watson webinar, which describes how to connect your Delphi or C++Builder app to their IBM Watson AI, set up IBM Cloud, and access the Watson API 🤖

You will learn how to build image and document recognition models, word identification, and many more.

Just watch the video and share your opinion 👉

BTW: The full webinar link is in the description for this video 👀
https://youtu.be/zE1JxCSFMi8

​​The team behind FastReport has updated their multi-platform document generator FastReport FMX 🎉

The new version supports the latest version of Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.3, MacOS x64 and excellent export to PDF 👀

Check out their website and don't forget to 👍 this post!
https://www.fast-report.com/en/news/449/

​​Yesterday, the first non-beta release of FastMM v 5 became available on GitHub. If you use this cool memory manager, this information is for you 🔥

The new version is a complete rewrite of FastMM. Pierre le Riche, the author of the product, has made a lot of work on improving the multithreaded scaling across multiple CPU cores, fully configurable runtime, and many more. Errors and memory leak notifications may be routed to the debugger via OutputDebugString ☝️

Check out the product page and 👍
https://github.com/pleriche/FastMM5

​​The good guys from TRichview just released a new version of their ReportWorkshop 🚀

👉 The new version includes the expressions support. An expression can use numeric, text, logical, and date-time operands: constants, fields from databases, report variables. Old cross-tab aggregate functions can be used in expressions, as well.

Check out the product website for more details 👍
https://www.trichview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9954

Today, the team behind HelpNDoc has updated their help writing tool up to the version 6.9 and added barcodes and QR codes support, improved the project analyzer, and many more 😲

BTW: this tool is free for personal use 💪

Just check out their technical blog for more details and don't forget to 👍 this post!
https://www.helpndoc.com/news-and-articles/2020-05-05-add-bar-codes-or-qr-codes-and-list-anchors-in-your-documentation-projects-with-helpndoc-6.9/

The following video tutorial will allow you to quickly get started with Arduino 🤖

Boyan Mitov, the owner of Mitov Software, discusses the basic concepts of Arduino development, microcontroller boards, development IDE, and Software API for the boards. While the most Pascal devs prefer to code in Lazarus, the tutorial proposes Delphi as the devemopment tool.

Just watch the video and study all pros & cons 👍👎
https://youtu.be/ySL-n6MZjlQ

​​Have you ever experienced a situation where you did something wrong in Git and need to fix the error ⁉️

Git is hard. Check out this interesting article, which will shed a light on some Git facilities and may save your time fixing the error 👍
https://ohshitgit.com/

​​If you develop mobile apps for the app stores, this news is for you 👀

DelphiWorlds has published news about the MonkeyBuilder, a tool that helps to automate the whole build/deployment process and reduce the time you spend from hours into just minutes.

Just check it out and leave your opinion 🔥
https://www.delphiworlds.com/2020/05/introducing-monkeybuilder/

Booleans are the first data type any programmer learns. While it’s tempting to use boolean flag values in your codebases for managing state machines, it can easily lead to code complexity, readability, and scalability issues as your code evolves. But this doesn't mean you should avoid using booleans 🤔

Read more in this article and learn when enums are better, and why 👍
https://medium.com/better-programming/dont-use-boolean-arguments-use-enums-c7cd7ab1876a

​​Check out this project, which I've recently discovered on GitHub. Delphi-JsonToDelphiClass may be an interesting alternative to Rest Debugger 🤔

I've compiled it in my Delphi Rio Community with some warnings and hints 😡 But it works!

Just try it and share your opinion 👉
https://github.com/PKGeorgiev/Delphi-JsonToDelphiClass

​​Yesterday, Embarcadero announced the availability of InterBase 2020 Update 1. There are tablespaces and Linux support, updated IBConsole, and performances improvements 🔥

There are lots of devs, who prefer to use Firebird. But the new Interbase looks very promising. And what is your opinion?
https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/interbase-2020-update-1-is-now-available

Check out this video tutorial, which describes how to download TS files from a video stream😲

👉 This tutorial is a good demonstration for the MultiDownloader component from the Clever Internet Suite library. The component allows you to download all TS files concurrently in multiple threads using the multipart downloading mode and resuming.

Just try the project, which is available on GitHub, and don't forget to 👍
https://youtu.be/Ny0_0yARIPg

​​Woah! MySQL turns 25. This wonderful database is the same age as Delphi 🔥
https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/celebrating-mysql-25th-anniversary

​​Delphi 10.4 Sydney, the most expecting release, is about to be launched this week 💥
Check out this blog post for more details 👉
https://www.ideasawakened.com/post/delphi-10-4-sydney-is-the-best-tool-for-creating-windows-applications