This is a new installment of my occasional (mostly monthly) collection of relevant Delphi links.

Embarcadero News

Company focus is summarized in this video, "Inspire. Develop. Excel.": http://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16231-inspire-develop-excel

As you have seen also in this blog, we have officially lunched a new product, RAD Server, a new offer of existing enterprise level technologies (EMS, BeadonFencing, IotT remoting, etc). Read more at https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-server. Notice that the complete evaluation software is already included in RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin at the Enterprise level, along with the all of the specific development tools. You can also read http://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16233-embarcadero-unveils-rad-server-for-c-builder-and-delphi-service-based-application-back-ends

If you missed RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin launch webinar, the replay in on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CHPXbUeSJ8

​Technical Blog Posts

A summary of RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin FireUI Live Preview articles, videos, apps and docs by David I at http://community.embarcadero.com/blogs?view=entry&id=8495

InterBase Array Fields and FireDAC, by Stephen at https://delphiaball.co.uk/2016/04/29/interbase-array-fields-firedac/

Comparison of Database access frameworks in Delphi (in which FireDAC has a big role) at https://ultimatedelphi.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/database-connectivity-frameworks-in-delphi/

A Delphi Guy Walks Into Google, by Allen Bauer at http://blog.therealoracleatdelphi.com/2016/05/random-stuff-about-working-at-google-or.html

A Delphi mobile app used to track Bolzano city elections, at http://www.andreamagni.eu/wp/2016/05/viktor-a-delphi-mobile-app-used-in-bolzano-during-elections-of-mayor-and-city-council/

The new TBufferedFileStream class: https://delphiaball.co.uk/2016/04/29/faster-filestream-tbufferedfilestream/

Third-Party Related News

Using Advantage Database Server with 10.1 Berlin by Joachim at https://www.jd-engineering.de/using-ads-with-delphi-10-1-berlin/

Interesting project by Daniele to support Google's FireBase in Delphi at https://github.com/spinettaro/Firebase4Delphi 

And Finally...

Verity Stob has a new column about the Sons of Kahn, covering last 6 months of news around RAD Studio. And punctuation. And misspelled Wookeys. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/20/verity_sons_of_khan_witch_of_wookey/

And, finally, don't miss this months offers: Upgrade from very old versions of RAD Studio and free mobile pack if you buy Delphi or C++Builder Professional! See https://www.embarcadero.com/radoffer