Embarcadero Updates
Embarcadero released Delphi Community Edition, a great step to get the product back to students and hobbyist with support for mobile platforms in a free edition, for non-prossional developers. The release has been very well received and had a large number of downloads, but we are asking all Delphi developers to spread the word.
We have released an updated roadmap for RAD Studio, https://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16638-rad-studio-august-2018-roadmap, along with a commentary blog post bby the PM team, https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/august-2018-roadmap-commentary-from-product-management
Official considerations about "Deadline Approaching: Google’s new Android API level 26 Requirements" by Sarina at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/deadline-approaching-google-s-new-android-api-level-26-requirements
Technical Blog Posts
Along with the community edition, we have released a new set of articles to get started with it. I updated a similar set of article Pawel had written for the Starter edition, they are all linked form here: https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/learn-to-program-with-community-edition (there is also a C++ counterpart). My series starts at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/learn-delphice-part1.
Very nice post on "Some information about Embarcadero License Center" by Thomas at https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2018/07/14/some-information-about-embarcadero-licence-center/
Celebrating Five Amazing Years with Embarcadero by Jim at http://delphi.org/2018/07/five-amazing-years-with-embarcadero/
Upload An Attachment To SalesForce With The Delphi 10.2 Tokyo Enterprise Connectors by Eli at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/upload-an-attachment-to-salesforce-with-the-delphi-10-2-tokyo-enterprise-connectors
Free Field Service App Template Solution Quick Start Guide For Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows also by Eli at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/free-field-service-app-template-solution-quick-start-guide-for-android-ios-macos-and-windows
An Unusual Video
This video is interesting just because it is a presentation of RAD Studio by a person outside of our community, to an audience new to the product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doc4AkJG5Kg
Libraries
High performance #Delphi event driven component for parsing bitcoin and block-chain block files at https://github.com/SoftwareTools4Makers/Delphi-Component-for-BlockChain-Dat-Files
That's all for this round...