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Ruby In Steel 1.5 Released

With updated JRuby debugger

Monday 8 February 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

Ruby In Steel is my company (SapphireSteel Software)’s Ruby and Rails IDE for Visual Studio.

This latest release updates our support for the Java-based Ruby implementation, JRuby, which is now a very good, mature product with a decent Windows installer. The Ruby In Steel editor and integrated console supports multiple versions of Ruby: 1.8.x, 1.9.1 and JRuby 1.4. In addition, we have (...)

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CodeHealer For Delphi - Exclusive Offer

Delphi code analysis tool at almost half price

Monday 1 February 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

SOCK Software is offering a limited time special deal of CodeHealer 2.6 for Bitwise readers at a cost of only $199. This represents a massive saving of $180 off the regular price ($379).

CodeHealer is a powerful code analysis tool which can find and fix many errors and redundancies in your Delphi code. It works with all Win32 versions of Delphi from Delphi 5 onwards and with Delphi For .NET from versions 8 to 2007. We recently reviewed the latest version of CodeHealer HERE. To (...)

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iPFaces - Mobile App framework

A simple way on the iPhone?

Friday 29 January 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

Edhouse has released version 1.1 of iPFaces project, the framework for simple creation of native, form-oriented network applications for mobile devices (iPhone, BlackBerry, Mobile Java).

The company says that iPFaces aims to screen the programmer out from the mobile platform itself, and transfer the entire application logic to central application server level. Developers with experience with one of the supported Web technologies (ASP.Net, Java, and PHP) may start working with (...)

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CodeHealer 2.6

Updated code analysis tool for Delphi

Tuesday 26 January 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

CodeHealer 2.6 $379
SOCK Software
http://www.socksoftware.com/

There is more to writing good, clean, reliable code than just, well, writing it. No matter how careful you may be, no matter how much testing and debugging you may do, it is almost inevitable that occasions will arise when errors, ambiguities and unused bits of code will somehow creep in.

Here I have analysed a Delphi project with CodeHealer. The possible problems are listed at the bottom left and the code to which they refer is shown on the right. Here I have highlighted an unreferenced function and I am using the ‘Heal' menu to have it automatically commented out. If (...)

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Eye Candy 6

Updated Photoshop effects

Tuesday 5 January 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

$249. Upgrade (from any version of Eye Candy): $99
Alien Skin
http://www.alienskin.com/

Alien Skin's latest version of its Eye Candy suite enhances some of its best-known Photoshop-compatible filters and adds a new user interface that makes it easier than ever to find and apply presets to create stunning graphic effects in moments. I've reviewed Eye Candy before (see Eye Candy 5 (...)

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g_socket_data.Lookup(s)==0

um, you what...?

Monday 4 January 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

I’ve been seeing this inscrutable message quite a lot lately. Every time I try to view a Flash movie in a web browser, in fact.

As far as I can figure out, it all began after I installed the latest version of Flash 10. The error message pops up when I view Flash movies in Internet Explorer, Opera or Firefox. When I Googled for information, most of the hits referred to problems with something called the Google Desktop (...)

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Flash CS4 and Visual Studio

Amethyst Flash IDE integration

Wednesday 23 December 2009 by Huw Collingbourne

A small Christmas present for Flash IDE developers who want to program their applications using Visual Studio...

My company, SapphireSteel Software, has just released a preview (beta 'edge') edition of Amethyst - our Flash Platform IDE for Visual Studio - which includes new tools to let you share Flash IDE (CS4 or CS3) applications with Amethyst. That means you can continue designing and animating using (...)

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In Wikipedia We Trust

Well, up to a point...

Sunday 20 December 2009 by Huw Collingbourne

In 2006, The New Yorker published an article about Wikipedia in which it referred to the contributions of “a user known as Essjay, who holds a Ph.D. in theology and a degree in canon law and has written or contributed to sixteen thousand entries.“

The New Yorker claimed that Essjay was “A tenured professor of religion at a private university.” This assertion was subsequently corrected by the addition of an ‘Editor's Note' stating that Essjay had been recommended to the author of the New Yorker article “by a member (...)

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Visual Studio, Flex, Flash and sheer exhaustion

New Amethyst Beta

Tuesday 8 December 2009 by Huw Collingbourne

Shipping new versions of beta software is pretty darn’ exhausting...

As you may know, most of my time recently has been involved in the development of Amethyst, my company's Flash Platform IDE for Visual Studio. This is a huge project. Bigger and more complex even than our other IDE, Ruby In Steel, for programming the Ruby language. Not only does it have a huge (...)

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TV - Last Haven Of The Adventure Game?

The Lost Room

Monday 7 December 2009 by Huw Collingbourne

When I watched The Lost Room on DVD this weekend I had a sudden but unmistakable sense of déjà-vu.

This American mini-series involves characters exploring a variety of locations in which to find ‘objects' with interesting powers. The people who look for these objects are called ‘collectors' and the principal place in which objects are located is a mysterious ‘room' whose (...)

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Ruby In Steel 1.5 Released

CodeHealer For Delphi - Exclusive Offer

iPFaces - Mobile App framework

CodeHealer 2.6

Eye Candy 6

g_socket_data.Lookup(s)==0

Flash CS4 and Visual Studio

In Wikipedia We Trust

Visual Studio, Flex, Flash and sheer exhaustion

TV - Last Haven Of The Adventure Game?

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