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  Continuous Integration Servers are often underspecified when it comes to hardware. In the early days of Automated Builds, the build server was quite often that old pc in the corner of the office, or an old server in the data center that no one else wanted. Developers weren't doing many builds per day, so it worked, it was probably slow but that didn't seem to matter much. Fast forward 20 years, and the CI server is now a critical service. The volume and frequency of builds has increased dramatically, and a slow CI server can be a real problem in an environment where we want fast feedback on that code we just committed (even though it "worked on my machine"). Continuous Deployment only adds to the workload of the CI server. In this post I'm going to cover off some ideas to hopefully improve the performance of your CI server.

• Code Signing with USB Tokens

  Big changes are coming for OV (Organisation Validation) code signing certificates - from (1 June 2023, extended from 15 November 2022), new and reissued publicly trusted organization validation (OV) and individual validation (IV) code signing certificates will have to be issued or stored on preconfigured secure hardware by the issuing certificate authority (CA) and the device must meet FIPS 140 Level 2, Common Criteria EAL 4+ or equivalent security standards.

• DPM Package Manager - Progress update

  In December 2019, I about a package manager for Delphi that I have been working on. This post is a progress update that shows where it's at and what's left to do to get to v1.

• Delphi Package Manager RFC

  Delphi/Rad Studio desperately needs a proper package/library/component manager. A package manager provides a standardized way of consuming third party libraries. At the moment, use of third party libraries is very much adhoc, and in many cases this makes it difficult to move projects between machines, or to get a new hire up and running quickly. Other development eco systems, like Ruby, .net and Javascript, recognised and solved this problem many years ago. Getting a Ruby, .net or Javascript project up an running, in a new working folder or new machine is trivial.

• Building Delphi projects with Continua CI

  This post shows how to configure Continua CI to build Embarcadero Delphi projects

• VSoft.CommandLineParser for Delphi - Updated

  A while back I published the VSoft.CommandLineParser library on github, which makes it simple to handle command line options in delphi applications. I have updated it to support commands, where each command has it's own set of options.