Another collection of relevant news and blog posts on Delphi and RAD Studio, from the last couple of weeks.

Official Updates, Roadmap, Birthday, and New Chinese Year

Embarcadero has released hotfixes for XE7 and XE8 and some missing C++ files for 10 Seattle.

We have a roadmap at http://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16211-embarcadero-rad-studio-2016-product-approach-and-roadmap-2

Another Delphi birtday, 21st, as you can read on http://blog.therealoracleatdelphi.com/2016/02/delphi-at-21-era.html

Chinese new year, is the year of the FireMonkey, our great multi-device development framework, http://delphi.org/2016/02/the-year-of-the-firemonkey/

Techical Blog Posts

"Updating 32bit code to Delphi 64bit", great summary by Stephen Ball at https://delphiaball.co.uk/2016/02/16/delphi-64bit-code/

"Setting the VCL application icon, by Craig Chapman at http://chapmanworld.com/2016/02/17/rad-studio-setting-the-vcl-application-icon/

"10 Reasons to use PAServer for Windows Deployment, by Jim McKeeth at http://delphi.org/2016/02/10-reasons-to-use-paserver-for-windows-deployment/

Third Party

EurekaLog 7.4 released, http://eurekalog.blogspot.it/2016/01/eurekalog-7-4.html 

Interesting NFC library for Android, at http://www.winsoftxe.com/anfclib.htm