Olaf’s Thoughts About Development

With CodeRage III, CodeGear’s Virtual Developer Conference (December 1-5, 2008), approaching, all speakers have to find a solution to pre-record their sessions. One way is to load a trial version of Camtasia Studio, but if you did that a while ago already, then you either have to purchase or find an alternative if you cannot afford a license.

I gave Wink, the open source solution for tutorial and presentation creation, another try a week ago. It basically works, and if taking into account that Wink is for free, it has an amazing feature set.

I must say though, that if you know Camtasia, Wink does not reach its usability. You might say now that comparing free and commercial Software would be unfair, but there is at least one free option for Camtasia:

The latest issue (24/2008) of Germany’s c’t Magazine comes with a free version of Camtasia Studio 3.0.2. Thats an old version (current is 5.0 6.0), but its completely working. They had a similar offer a year ago or so for version 3.1 (thats the one I’m using) – but that expired now as I found today.

So, if you are a CodeRage speaker, don’t have a session recording solution yet and if you are in Germany or know someone in Germany, try to get a copy of that magazine.