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Pro Silverlight 3 in C#

Book Review

Friday 5 March 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

Pro Silverlight 3 in C#
By Matthew MacDonald
ISBN13: 978-1-4302-2381-8
ISBN10: 1-4302-2381-2
Print Book Price: $49.99 / £39.49
eBook Price: $34.99
APress: http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430223812
Computer Manuals: http://www.computermanuals.co.uk

Silverlight is Microsoft's browser-based ‘rich internet application' technology and it is a competitor to Adobe's ubiquitous Flash. At almost 800 pages in length [1], this book looks as though it should be a fairly comprehensive guide to Silverlight 3. Well, I'm not really sure than even (...)

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Gibraltar 2

Logging Software

Thursday 4 March 2010 by Dermot Hogan

Software for collecting diagnostic information from remote sites.

Available from www.gibraltarsoftware.com.

Price: Hub $499; Agents are free

There are two ways to debug applications. The obvious one is to use a debugger. This is great while you are developing the application initially, but once the application is out in the wide world, it's not too hot. How do you debug a client application in Paris if you are in San Francisco? And (...)

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Amethyst Flash IDE Edge Release

Now with ’live’ view

Wednesday 17 February 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

Those of you following the progress of my company’s Adobe Flash IDE, Amethyst, might be interested to take a look at the latest ’edge’ release.

It's still in beta but getting ever closer to the full final version now. This new release has a 'live mode' in the visual Design workspace which lets you 'activate' all the controls. That means that radio buttons can be checked, text entry fields can have text entered into them and rollover (...)

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Beginning Silverlight 3

Book Review

Tuesday 16 February 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

Beginning Silverlight 3
By Robert Lair
ISBN13: 978-1-4302-2377-1
ISBN10: 1-4302-2377-4
Print Book Price: $39.99 / £31.49
eBook Price: $27.99

APress: http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430223774 Computer Manuals: http://www.computermanuals.co.uk If you are new to Rich Internet Application development with Microsoft's Silverlight, this book promises to “teach you the fundamental concepts and techniques” which you will need (...)

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Chip and Pin Secure? Think again!

Time to go back to cash maybe?

Thursday 11 February 2010 by Huw Collingbourne

I have to say I’ve never been enthused by ’chip and pin’ credit card verification. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that, shortly after my bank introduced this technology a few years ago, several thousand pounds mysteriously vanished from my bank account.

That money went via a telephone booking for a hotel in America (I was in Britain at the time) to a name not associated with my card and with no address being on record! So much for chip and pin. It simply doesn't work over the phone. But if you make a purchase 'face to face', as it were, chip (...)

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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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