While clearly difficult to have a weekly summary, Iv'e fully retitled this installment, although the URL stays as part of the original weekly sequence. Let's get started.

Embarcadero News

A Busy Summer at https://community.embarcadero.com/article/16572-a-busy-summer

Embarcadero Academy Debuts with Online Courses for Developers of All Levels press release at http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170918005798/en/Embarcadero-Academy-Debuts-Online-Courses-Developers-Levels

New in 10.2.1: Debug visualisers for Delphi generics at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/new-in-10-2-1-debug-visualisers-for-delphi-generics

Build iOS 11 ready apps with RAD Studio 10.2.1 at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/build-ios-11-ready-apps-with-rad-studio-10-2-1

Updating IDE Subversion DLLs to address security issues at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/updating-ide-subversion-dlls-to-address-security-issues

Blog Posts

Working with big data databases in Delphi - Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB (Part 3 of 3) at https://blog.grijjy.com/2017/09/21/working-with-big-data-databases-in-delphi-cassandra-couchbase-and-mongodb-part-3-of-3/

Debugging RTL/VCL Code with CodeSite at http://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/WordPress/?p=1754 and the follow up ,Notify Me of Everything - Part 2, at http://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/WordPress/?p=1761

5 Minute Snack: Reading floats with StrToFloat and TFormatSettings independent of system region settings at https://flixengineering.com/archives/612

Easily Make Asynchronous REST Calls In Delphi 10.2.1 Tokyo On Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows 10 at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/easily-make-asynchronous-rest-calls-in-delphi-10-2-1-tokyo-on-android-ios-macos-and-windows-10

Face Detection on Android and iOS at https://blog.grijjy.com/2017/09/11/face-detection-on-android-and-ios/

Experimenting with Neural Networks - Part 1 (and following in subsequent posts) - http://chapmanworld.com/2017/09/20/experimenting-with-neural-networks-part-1/

Adding a Custom Icon to a FireMonkey Button at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/adding-a-custom-icon-to-a-firemonkey-button

RAD Studio 10.2: Windows 10 VCL UWP/WinRT Support at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/rad-studio-10-2-windows-10-vcl-uwp-winrt-support

Amazon DynamoDB with Delphi (video) at https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/amazon-dynamodb-with-delphi

5 Minute Snack: Is a package installed? The Package Manager icons tell you! https://flixengineering.com/archives/618

Third Party Libraries

TLanguage localization tool: https://delphitipsandtrick.blogspot.it/2017/10/delphi-tlanguage-localizaton-tool.html

Not new but fairly interesting.... Python for Delphi at https://github.com/pyscripter/python4delphi and you can read about it at http://www.atug.com/andypatterns/pythonDelphiTalk.htm

Delphi RNL ("Realtime Network Library") at https://github.com/BeRo1985/rnl

Use this RFID library in Delphi at https://github.com/islog/liblogicalaccess/wiki/Use-this-RFID-library-in-Delphi

Built with Delphi

Roselt Color Picker in Windows Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/store/p/roselt-color-picker/9nq8c70flp0r?rtc=1

Smart IDE for OpenSCAD at https://github.com/senCille/senCilleSCAD/wiki

 

That's all for this month.