Two reasons this would be useful, in case there's some other way to achieve these goals: 1) Building in the Flash IDE is really slow; I was hoping a third-party compiler would be faster. 2) It would be nice to be able to build projects on machines that don't have the Flash IDE installed. I'm familiar with other AS3 compilers that are out...
Hi. I'm currently working as an applications developer, with a Java and C++ background, but I'd like to be able to work on more web-based projects. I was originally thinking of learning one of the newer languages, but I suspect that there'll be more value to learning php, as that's what most legacy code's written in. Hopefully then mov...
I am interested in using Xaml with expression blend for creating user interfaces in an application. However, because of the limitations of the target architecture, I cannot use WPF or C#. So, what I am interested in is in any examples / existing projects or advice from anyone who has experiance of this technology on the use of Xaml in i...
I use FTP on a daily basis to work on multiple websites, but when I try to work from home, my darned satellite internet has a latency of about 1000ms. (Its craptastic service, I know, but there are no alternatives where I live.) Thus, I was wondering if there is a way that I can connect to my web server and transfer files that can accomo...
TeX/LaTeX is great, I use it in many ways. Some of its advantages are: it uses text files, this way the input-files can be diffed and many tools exist to work with text it is very flexible it has a stable layout: if I change something at the start of the document, it doesn't affect other things at the end of the document it has many ex...
We are look at providing a method for our non-technical users to edit XML and pass it to our existing XML input functionality. I remembered InfoPath saved its data as XML, and took another look at it. It's great the way it allows you to define a form based on an XSD (XML Schema), and then allow the user to edit XML without knowing it i...
Folks, I've been trying to find a way to load my WCF service configuration (that huge BLOB of XML config data) from an alternate source - not the standard web.config / app.config. We're running in a restricted environment where we don't have access to the server's file system, and thus we cannot make tweaks and changes to our WCF conf...
Is there any free or open alternative to RUP? ...
I'm wondering if there's a freeware and/or open source alternative to ReSharper on the market. ...
I have been doing a little reading on Flow Based Programming over the last few days. There is a wiki which provides further detail. And wikipedia has a good overview on it too. My first thought was, "Great another proponent of lego-land pretend programming" - a concept harking back to the late 80's. But, as I read more, I must admit ...
I've used SQLite before as a datastore for a C# winforms application, and it was great, however, it does possess many shortcomings. I'm aware Microsoft have a product called SQL Server Compact Edition - does this work in the same way SQLite does, and if so, is it any good? Are there any other alternatives? Update By alternatives I me...
I am currently developing a proof of concept for an alternative data store. The reason why is I need to enhance a read-mostly clustered webapp, but also because I want to free myself from the pain of the sometimes overly-complex ORM+RDBMS solution. Overall the idea is quite similar to a distributed cache with persistence (letting the cl...
Do you know of an "easy" way to store and retrieve objects in Java without using a relational DB / ORM like Hibernate? [Note that I am not considering serialization as-is for this purpose, as it won't allow to retrieve arbitrary objects in the middle of an object graph. Neither am I considering DB4O because of its restrictive license. T...
Are there any ways providing an alternate GIF/PNG image, in case the user has no Adobe Flash installed and/or deactivated. I’ve found recommendations, like the following from W3C, which determine via JavaScript the existence of Adobe Flash on the client: W3C Providing alternative images Honestly, I would prefer a non JS technique. I’m t...
I currently sell a small software program and we use Paypal to handle receiving payment via Credit Cards. Its fees are really high and some of their policies are a little overreaching. What alternatives are there that still have a robust API? For example, when we make a sale we have Paypal notify our server when the payment clears so ...
My company has to crunch a lot of data and part of the process involves running the solver and plotting a graph through resulting data points. Obviously there is a lot of copy and paste involved and the whole process is shaky, error prone and all round cluster-fudge. I was wondering if there was an alternative to the solver that can be u...
I am really interested in Complex Event Processing and have been looking at Esper. However my company has an anti-GPL stance and I was wondering if there are non-GPL alternatives out there under a more business friendly license like Apache or BSD? ...
I have been using PHP for years. Lately I've come across numerous forum posts stating that PHP is outdated, that modern programming languages are easier, more secure, etc. etc. So, I decided to start learning Python. Since I'm used to using PHP, I just started building pages by uploading an .htaccess file with: addtype text/html py add...
OK... Im coming to grips with the fact that MS Project 2007 may not be the correct tool for my production scheduling. We serve 120 to 150 projects a year with durations from 6 weeks to 12 months. The task are simple (6 to 8 per project) and the resource pool is stable (15 to 20 people). It's really an assembly line product but with ...
I am looking for some free light-weight GUI alternative for IRB console on windows. What I whould like to see: Area to write a script (so I can edit, run, edit...) Command line to play with current variables Output window to see results Intellisence Breakpoints/debugging is a plus Actually, some thing similar to powershell_ise.exe wh...