Yesterday, good guys from tsilang.com have udated their interesting TsiLang Components Suite. The library provides a simple and powerful localization solution in your Delphi app 🔥

In the new version, we have improved Translations Editor and TsiLang Expert. Updated wizards and TsiLangCombo component. In addition, SIL Editor and Dictionary Manager were improved as well.

Check out their website to learn more about this library
https://www.tsilang.com

BTW: they provide a fully functional and no time-limit trial version 👍
https://www.tsilang.com/download-tsilang-components-suite/

​​If you are starting a new project, which targets to the Web, mobile, or Windows, this an upcoming webinar may be interesting for you.

Dr. Holger Flick, Bruno Fierens, and Pieter Scheldeman of TMS Software will discuss a cross-platform development with the TMS Framework Neutral components, answer your questions with live demos and real-time debugging 👍

Wed, Feb 10, 2021 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST. Image by EmbarcaderoTech.
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/415978646867264527

​​Unfortunately, one of the biggest Delphi component vendors, DevExpress, will not continue working on the FMX version of their exciting components 😥

Please read a conversation with Embarcadero’s Atanas Popov and DevExpress’ Ray Navasarkian about future vision of VCL component development, UX, and comparing complete libraries of components vs best-in-class components:
https://blogs.embarcadero.com/develop-best-in-class-applications-using-components/

​​Where usually component developers install their files? We install our sources in to the Program Files folder and both BPLs and examples - to Public Documents.

Please check out the following blog post, where the author provides an interesting information about places, where you should not put your Delphi components on PC. E.g., Windows 10 folders, which are synchronized with the OneDrive cloud storage 🤔

Where do you install your components, demos, and other Software-related files?
Please share your experience 👍
https://www.codedotshow.com/blog/where-not-to-put-your-delphi-components/

The good guys from tmssoftware have published an interesting video, which describes how to make a component for the Fitbit Web API service:
https://youtu.be/y7I5SwtTh80

This service is used to access data from Fitbit activity trackers. If you want more reading on this theme, refer the following article, which covers how to access Fitbit Web API using OAuth in Delphi 👍
https://flixengineering.com/archives/1489

Delphi is now 26 years old and Embarcadero is celebrating with blog posts and has asked developers to share your favorite quote, comment, story, or feature of Delphi. Woah, you can get 26% off Delphi and all products from Ebarcadero until February 28, 2021 🔥
https://www.ideasawakened.com/post/a-good-delphi-developer-is-usually-a-10x-developer

​​Wow, RAD Studio 10.4.2 Sydney Release 2 is available right now! Check out the Marco Cantu's blog post for quick feature overview. There are new components, expanded Firemonkey support, and many more 🔥

We still waiting for 10.4 CE... 🤔
https://blogs.embarcadero.com/announcing-the-availability-of-rad-studio-10-4-2-sydney-release-2/

​​DevArt has updated their data access component list with support for new RAD Studio 10.4.2
https://blog.devart.com/delphi-dac-support-for-rad-studio-10-4-2.html

😲 Wow, I didn't know about VirtualDAC components! Does anybody use these components? What's difference from TClientDataSet?
Please share your experience.

https://www.devart.com/virtualdac/

Today, I've watched one interesting video by Alister Christie, Delphi MVP, about a new RAD Studio 10.4.2 visual control.

TControlList indeed looks very cool 🔥 and allows for dynamically sized lists and only renders what is required. There are lots of places in my apps, where I might use it!
https://youtu.be/PfHV9AhV2NM

Yesterday has started a new TCoffeeAndCode dev chat. The 52 minutes episode can be watched on YouTube 👍
https://youtu.be/lyi46VABrxU

👌 The next session was scheduled on March 23rd. Ian Barker (MVP) and Dr Holger Flick (TMS) will discuss modern UI designs and how to keep your UI looking modern.

Check out the Embarcadero dev blog for more details and registration:
https://blogs.embarcadero.com/tcoffeeandcode-developer-chats-in-march-2021/

​​Check out a combobox control with an interesting effect of closing the list. If the mouse pointer is not over the control, the list is automatically closed after a time delay. The algorithm works in a thread and doesn't lock the app UI 🧐 Hm, why not to use TTimer to do the same thing in the main app thread?

Please share your thoughts 👍
http://zarko-gajic.iz.hr/delayed-close-programmatically-dropped-tcombobox-if-mouse-not-over-combo-and-combos-list-using-multi-threading/

Yeah, there is such a thing...

​​The TRichView team has updated their excighting richtext editing and reporting components. This update includes the markdown import functionality, new calendar functions for ReportWorkshop expressions, and more.

Check out the product blog for more details 👍
https://www.trichview.com/wp/2021/03/25/trichview-19-2-reportworkshop-3-1-markdown-import-adit-math-engine-list-style-types-calendar-functions/

​​😲 Wow, check out a new version of StyleControls for VCL with the Ribbon UI pager control and advanced controls to create applications with UWP / Fluent UI design.

The new version 4.83 is available on their website 👍
http://www.almdev.com

​​Recently, I've read one interesting blog post, which describes some tips to decrease build time of your Delphi app. For sure, the list includes precompiled DCUs, multiple Delphi configurations, and some other tricks.

The provided advises, indeed, may be helpful for Delphi projects, not only for C++Builder, expecially if your project is large 👍
https://blog.grijjy.com/2021/04/05/build-speed/

One year later, an army of remote workers are still making rookie mistakes that lead to burnout... Check out this interesting article. If you are working remotely, the provided tips may be helpful for you to improve your productivity.

I'm working remotely more than 20 years. To be honest, I can't follow all these tips 🙂 And what is your opinion?
https://index.medium.com/youre-still-doing-remote-work-all-wrong-cd0482f3a16f

​​An upcoming TCoffeeAndCode spring series in April. Jim McKeeth, an Embarcadero's chief developer advocate, has announced new scheduled sessions, which will start from Wed, 21st. There will be developer’s guide to security, AI and machine learning, DevOps, data visualization, and many more 😲

Check out an announce and 👍 a short cool video!
https://blogs.embarcadero.com/tcoffeeandcode-spring-central-time-series/

Yet another interesting video about TMSSoftware cross platform desktop apps. The author shows how to create a Miletus TMS Web app, with local database support 🧐

The language is German, but as always, YouTube subtitle autotranslation rules 👍
https://youtu.be/hkF6TqC8Y18

​​Check out a new article from Vincent Radio about his exciting object-oriented scripting programming language, VRCalc++. The article covers the main language syntax and constructions, includes lots of examples and advises.

No doubt, this is interesting project 👍 And what is your opinion? Where do you think, this language might be used?
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1272020/VRCalcplusplus-Object-Oriented-Scripting-Language

​​Wow, the good guys from Almediadev have released a new version of their VCL style controls.

Check out a list of cool animated screenshots, and don't forget to put 👍
http://www.almdev.com/prods/stylecontrols/stylecontrols_fuiscs.html