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Site admin without username & password

Right now I'm building a personal site/blog and have pretty much got it they way I want except I'm in two minds about how to add posts to it. It's just me who'll be adding posts and to me having a user / name password to log in seems rather passé ;). I'm looking in to alternatives to play around and experiment with and one idea I have ...

Check and insert alt attribute for images which miss it

I want to write a Java tool to assess HTML pages of an existing site and if any image has no alt attribute, the tool will insert alt="" to that image. One approach is using an HTML parser (like HtmlCleaner) to generate the DOM then adding the alt attribute to the images in the DOM before writing back the HTML. However, this approach ...

Nicer alternative to the default Rails scaffolding stylesheet: scaffold.css?

I'm looking for a more attractive alternative to the standard scaffold.css? Has anyone come across a stylesheet that was specifically designed as a more attractive, less sparse alternative to the built-in scaffold.css? ...

Any FOSS alternatives of MSBuild Sidekick?

I've been playing around with MSBuild lately and it seems like a really powerful framework. However, the editing of the projects in VS2008 seems like an after thought. I saw that there is MSBuild Sidekick, which looks fantastic. So are there any FOSS options? FYI, I know that NAnt is very popular, but I am trying to stick to MSBuild....

what happened to mongrel? any alternatives on windows?

I've jus saw that mongrel's last updat was about one year ago... http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=diff&version=35 has it been disontinued? is there any other lightweight alternative for a windows development box? ...

Mysql too many while loops inside one stored procedure

Hi! I have one stored procedure in while I am getting comma separated values in parameters. I have three parameters which has comma separated values. and i need to put them in table's columns so I am using while loop. but i am scared when too many(say lakhs of users) users will connect to my website then my procedure will have performanc...

Open Source alternative to Mathworks Polyspace?

Anyone knows about an open source project (or maybe just free to use in commercial projects) that is an alternative to Mathworks Polyspace? I'm searching for tools for code checking and found some good alternatives for static checks, but PolySpace seems to offer so much more power. I think there's no real alternative out there, but may...

Is there an alternative to CSS?

Is there a style sheet formatting language alternative to CSS? Or is CSS the current single language for doing Style Sheet formatting type things? I looked at the write up of CSS on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets) and a few other comments about CSS and became discouraged about the lack of full support...

Why don't popular programming languages use some other character to delimit strings?

Every programming language I know (Perl, Javascript, PHP, Python, ASP, ActionScript, Commodore Basic) uses single and double quotes to delimit strings. This creates the ongoing situation of having to go to great lengths to treat quotes correctly, since the quote is extremely common in the contents of strings. Why do programming languag...

Alternate row coloring in jquery

Hi, I have a table with expand and collapse of rows, with column sortable. Below is my code, is there is any ways to improve its performance. And read appending complete group of rows into dom improves performance, but if i do out of $.each() loop it throws error. teble demo var alt = true; var altSub = true; $.each(myData, function(...

Good Lucene .NET alternative for ASP.NET website

Are there any good alternatives for Lucene .NET to use in a ASP.NET website? I want to index XML-, TXT-, PDF- and DOC-files. Thanks! ...

C#: Replacement of enum that requires translation and enumeration.

We have some stuff that may be exported into various formats. Currently we have these formats represented by an enum like this: [Flags] public enum ExportFormat { None = 0x0, Csv = 0x1, Tsv = 0x2, Excel = 0x4, All = Excel | Csv | Tsv } Problem is that these must be enumerated and they also need a translation or des...

What is the alternative to MVC and an ORM?

In the context of RoR and multiple disperate database connection, I was given this comment. What is my alternative on an Apache server (mac)? PHP, no MVC, and a mess? Also, this is not a comment about PHP. It just allows the classic asp mess that I have now, but fwiw, the "mess" works and has served well for many years. I wanted to ...

Is there an alternative for StructLayout "Pack" attribute in Compact Framework?

I would like to do the following: [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, Pack = 1)] public struct SomeStruct { public byte SomeByte; public int SomeInt; public short SomeShort; public byte SomeByte2; } Is there an alternative since Pack is not supported in the compact framework? Update: Explicitly settin...

Alternative to mysql_real_escape_string without connecting to DB

I'd like to have a function behaving as mysql_real_escape_string without connecting to database as at times I need to do dry testing without DB connection. mysql_escape_string is deprecated and therefore is undesirable. Some of my findings: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=448909 http://w3schools.invisionzone....

Are there any good alternatives to WebSVN?

We've been using it for the past few years and not the most happy with it at the moment. Is there any good alternatives out there? ...

is there a good alternative to richtextbox in wpf?

Hey all Blend seems to crash when I try to edit the template of a RichTextBox (even blend 3.) I need an alternative that can display bold, highlighted, italic text of different colors etc. Is there anything like this? ...

Getting news from mysql, use of alternative function

Hey! Is there any way to use other functions as mysql_fetch_xxx for getting news from mysql db? I have used echo mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT title FROM news WHERE id = $_GET['id']")); but function doesn't work at all. Any alternatives? ...

alternative to page-break-inside:avoid because of compatibility issues

Hi I have a php file with 's and the things in the div should stay on one page, for this possebillity i found this: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_print_pagebi.asp However like you can see its only compatible with opera and nothing more. I dont want to demand my users to use opera so I was wondering if there was a alternative to the...

ASP.NET MVC - Alternative to Using Session

I have an ASP.NET MVC view that uses jquery.Uploadify to post files to one of my controllers for use in my application and one of the side effects I noticed with Uploadify is that when the Flash file Uploadify uses to submit files to the server posts to my controller it gets its own SessionID from ASP.NET. This would be fine, of course, ...