CleverComponents has updated Clever Internet Suite 9.6. This August update includes the IPv6 support to the SOCKS5 implementation, fixes existing issues in the SFTP and HTTP client components, and improves the SOAP MTOM attachments algorithm.

See the complete change list on the product webpage 👌
https://www.clevercomponents.com/products/inetsuite/

Wow, a virtual machine in Pascal! Check out this first video from the series, where the author explains how to build some kind of CPU emulator, which he named a virtual machine, using Lazarus. The program is not intended to virtualize any real hardware, or make a hosted server. The video starts with a highly simplified model of how a computer cpu works, and then proceeds to build the initial template for a virtual machine based on that model.

Let's watch, and don't forget to 👍👎
https://youtu.be/160VgTNv9Mk

​​Please take a look at these top 10 practices in test automation you should be following. This ebook can be downloaded for free. It describes best practices, which can help ensure automated testing delivers fast, reliable results with a minimum of overhead. There are regression and load tests, mobile and web tests, tools overview, and many more.

Just check it out and leave your reaction 👍👎
https://code-partners.com/resources/10-best-practices-for-test-automation/

​​Last week the RAD Studio 10.4.1 has been released 🔥 There are lots of interesting features. Check out a new reader-writer lock implementation, new Delphi Code Insight, and many more:
https://blogs.embarcadero.com/new-tlightweightmrew-record-in-rad-studio-10-4-1/
https://blogs.embarcadero.com/new-for-delphi-code-insight-in-10-4-1/

I've read an interesting blog post about binary compatibility on new versions of Delphi. The author, Darian Miller, discusses why binary compatibility is important between point releases.
https://www.ideasawakened.com/post/about-binary-compatibility-on-new-versions-of-delphi

​​Tomorrow starts a free online event - Desktop First UX Summit. The summit promises lots of great sessions, good speakers, the theory and practice of desktop apps UI & UX, and many more 😲

You can still register here:
https://summit.desktopfirst.com/

​​Check out one interesting Delphi project. The DfmCheck plugin is on GitHub now 🔥

This IDE plugin adds the possibility to check all DFM files of the active project. As a result, a special Delphi unit is generated. This unit accesses every control and causes compilation errors in case if one or more DFM files do not fit the form class 🤔
https://github.com/ahausladen/DFMCheck

​​Azure is the widely used platform for cloud computing. RAD Studio includes special providers, such as Azure API, to connect to these RESTful services.
Recently, I've read an interesting article, which explains Azure Machine learning, why to choose Azure ML, and Machine Learning Infrastructure requirements 🤔

Check it out and share your opinion 👍👎
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/azure-machine-learning-and-machine-learning-infrastructure-requirements/

Check out yet another interesting FMX library. A special sensor object can be run on both Android and iOS and calculates rectangular coordinates using accelerometer, magnetometer, and GPS sensors. The author proposes to use the sensor object to power augmented reality apps.

The GitHub repository provides a demo, which shows how to use the object in a mobile app.
Let's support and 👍 the project.
https://github.com/omarreis/FiremonkeySensorFusion

A couple days ago FMX Express has published a list of changes and fixes in Firemonkey, which were included in the latest Delphi 10.4.1 and C++Builder 10.4.1. E.g., there are lots of fixes in TMemo. I actively use this component in our Android app. There are changes in TWebBrowser, TEdit, TListView, and other controls.

Check it out here. May be you will find something useful for you, as well 👍
https://www.fmxexpress.com/significant-update-available-for-delphi-firemonkey-10-4-1-on-android-ios-osx-windows-and-linux/

​​An upcoming webinar on Python4Delphi - September 30th, 2020 at 9 AM CDT. There are lots of Python libraries, which can be accessed from Delphi with the Open-source Python4Delphi library.
Kiriakos Vlahos, the author of this library, and Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero Developer Advocate, will show how to leverage Python in your Delphi apps 👉
https://blogs.embarcadero.com/python-for-delphi-developers-webinar/

​​Wow, machine learning with pure SQL, didn't know that it's possible 😲 No Python, R, or Julia.

Check out this interesting ML project written from scratch in SQL.
The author used Oracle Machine Learning (OML) to train a classification model 👍
https://www.betterdatascience.com/machine-learning-with-sql%E2%80%8A-%E2%80%8Aits-easier-than-you-think/

​​BoldForDelphi is on GitHub right now. This tool allows you to build an UML model, add a set of business rules, and run this model in your app. About fifteen years ago, I read Grady Booch and used Rational Rose to model business logic for one of my projects. BoldForDelphi promises a set of tools to help to develop, run, and maintain business model using GUI, with minimum coding.

Did anybody use this tool in a real work? Please share your experience👌
https://github.com/Embarcadero/BoldForDelphi

HTTP 3 is here. As of September 2020, the HTTP/3 protocol is an Internet-Draft and has multiple implementations. According to W3Techs 7.1% of the top 10 million websites support HTTP/3. Recently, I've read an article, which takes a quick what's new overview and short version comparison. Stable versions of Firefox and Chrome support HTTP/3 in its current form.

We still are using HTTP 1.1 in our Delphi components for remoting tasks. I'm not sure, whether it takes effect on REST-based API calls. Multiplexing is important to browsers with video streaming, multiple connections, etc.

But the new HTTP/3 version promises to be more secure. I hope, we will start working on this protocol in our HTTP components for Delphi before the end of this year 😲
https://towardsdatascience.com/http-3-is-out-and-about-7c903f9aab9e

​​The good guys from CleverComponents have updated their Tnef-Parser library on GitHub. The update includes fixes for parsing of named MAPI parameters 🤔
https://github.com/CleverComponents/Tnef-Parser

The fork for previous non-unicode versions of Delphi is updated, as well. This fork includes fixes for decoding of Unicode characters. This matters to those, who uses Delphi 2007 and lower. So you can get attachment filenames when parsing MS Outlook emails.

Check out the fork repository, and don't forget to ⭐️ the project!
https://github.com/sergshirokov/Tnef-Parser

​​Wow, GetIt is on the Web 🔥 Today Embarcadero announced a new public facing website that lists the GetIt content for the latest RAD Studio release and allows users to easily navigate the same categories, and filter by product and vendor.

Marco Cantu in his blogpost will tell you more about GetIt Portal features and future plans:
https://blogs.embarcadero.com/new-getit-web-portal/

​​Two days left before an interesting online event - droidcon EMEA Agenda, October 8, 9 2020, 12:40 CET.

Android Development with RAD Studio. Glenn Dufke, Embarcadero MVP, and others, will show how Android devs can quickly create multi-platform prototypes using RAD Studio and FireMonkey 👍
https://www.online.droidcon.com/emea-agenda

​​More interesting events this Autumn 👍 If you are from Brazil, you can join Machine learning in Delphi online conference by Embarcadero. October 20, 2020. The current conference format is totally online.

You can get more details here:
https://embarcaderoconference.com.br/

​​Off topic 😂

Have you ever write/pass acceptance tests when working on a project? At the beginning, the user has to explain what he wants the software to do. Many methodologies, including Agile, encourage user participation throughout the development process, which can improve the likelihood of a positive result. The other point where an end user must get involved is at the end of the project: user acceptance testing.

The author of the following blog post discusses the other side of acceptance tests, which are not related to tests themselves. There is rather a political matter, than technical 😲

Just read the article, and don't forget to leave your reaction 👍👎
https://www.functionize.com/blog/3-things-you-ought-to-know-about-user-acceptance-testing/

​​Wow, CleverComponents has updated their TaskRunner app, a build automation tool, up to the version 1.2 🔥
The new version provides the full JavaScript support. You can pass variables between TaskRunner's tasks, read and modify them inside scripts. The used SpiderMonkey engine supports Node.js modules, such as fs, os, or http.

🧐They promise to describe how to use scripting in the nearest video tutorial. The previous videos can be seen here
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Si4WNQVSeXQMjdEJ8j1fg/playlists

👉TaskRunner v 1.2 on GitHub
https://github.com/clevercomponents/task-runner