http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/ en http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/ http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/SWF-FLV-ToolBox-4 2010-03-15 08:27:18 SWF & FLV ToolBox 4 Flash-to-Video Conversion Utility $39.95 (on offer - regular price is: $55.95) Eltima Software: http://www.eltima.com/products/swf-tools Videos and animations in Adobe Flash format seem to be everywhere you look these days - whether it be cartoon badgers or YouTube videos, you can bet your bottom dollar it's Flash. But Flash isn't the only video format you'll ever need. There may be times when you want to use a video with software that (...) Huw Collingbourne 2010-03-15T13:27:18Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Pro-Silverlight-3-in-C 2010-03-05 05:16:58 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 (...) Huw Collingbourne 2010-03-05T11:16:58Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Gibraltar-2 2010-03-04 11:02:07 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 so, there's a second way – (...) Dermot Hogan 2010-03-04T17:02:07Z text/html en Dermot Hogan http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Amethyst-Flash-IDE-Edge-Release 2010-02-17 12:40:48 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 buttons (...) Huw Collingbourne 2010-02-17T18:40:48Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Beginning-Silverlight-3 2010-02-16 12:58:49 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 to get started. At just over 300 pages in (...) Huw Collingbourne 2010-02-16T18:58:49Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Chip-and-Pin-Secure-Think-again 2010-02-11 15:11:55 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 (...) Huw Collingbourne 2010-02-11T21:11:55Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Ruby-In-Steel-1-5-Released 2010-02-08 06:24:04 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 two debuggers - one for Ruby 1.8 and another for JRuby 1.4. Ruby In Steel 1.5 supports named (...) Huw Collingbourne 2010-02-08T12:24:04Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/CodeHealer-For-Delphi-Exclusive 2010-02-01 08:31:19 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 buy (...) Huw Collingbourne 2010-02-01T14:31:19Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/iPFaces-Mobile-App-framework 2010-01-29 12:27:59 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 iPFaces (...) Huw Collingbourne 2010-01-29T18:27:59Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/CodeHealer-2-6 2010-01-26 13:11:40 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 (...) Huw Collingbourne 2010-01-26T19:11:40Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne