Mechanize and BeautifulSoup for PHP?
I was wondering if there was anything similar like Mechanize or BeautifulSoup for PHP? ...
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Reference of similar functions between Programming Languages
I'm wondering is there is a compiled knowledge base of similar functions or functionalities between several programming languages. The reason I'm asking this question is due to the fact that one is learning a new programming language and has extensive knowledge of another, it's often difficult to know or imagine the correlation of functi...
TinyMCE writes terrible HTML!
I've currently got TinyMCE incorporated into the backend editor of a simple blogging/page-editing app, but I'm extremely unhappy with the HTML code it creates. It does all sorts of messy things like: Adding inline style information to span tags that you can't ever find to get rid of without editing the HTML directly. Nesting tags in no...
Editors with MiniMap like Sublime Text
Are there any other editors other than Sublime Text with the MiniMap feature as seen bellow? The reason why I'm asking this because Sublime Text isn't cheap for a text editor and besides I've tried the trial version and it still has some bugs and some important features like code folding are still missing. I've come to enjoy the Mini...
How can I use FileInfo class, avoiding PathTooLongException?
How can I use (to avoid PathTooLongException): System.IO.FileInfo with paths bigger than 260 chars? Are there similar classes/methods that return the same result of FileInfo class? ...
PEAR alternatives in other languages
Is there a good class repository like PEAR for PHP for other languages such as Ruby or C#? If so what are they? Are they any good? ...
Is there an open source alternative to the stackoverflow model?
Hello, I'm interesting in creating a web site similar to stackoverflow. As I'm usually interested in OSS I'd like to know if someone knows about the existence of other Q&A sites whose sources are licensed under an open-source license (not interested which license as long as I can use it - GPL, Apache, BSD, MIT ...). Thank you, Iulian ...
Are there any alternatives to the MVC frameworks for PHP that would be considard best practice?
I'm looking for a good framework for PHP and see most offer the MVC approach, are there any other (or better) design methods/approaches that would be considered more efficient or best practice? MVC is starting to look dated but I wanted to know if it's still considered the industry standard. ...
jquery tablesorter plugin - retain alternative row colors
i took an html table that i am applying alternative row colors and i just added jquery table sorter on it so users can sort the table. the issue is that the alternative row colors are all messed up now as (based on the sorting) there are multiple rows with the same backcolor . . is there anyway to reset the alternative row color with j...
Alternative to Dreamweaver?
I'm tired of Dreamweaver overwriting wrong files on the server, so I'm looking for an alternative. I want color-coding and possibility to open/save and edit files direct from the server, so I don't need to save files on my desktop first. I'm using Windows. ...
Free Codesmith alternatives?
Are there any free/open source alternatives to Codesmith that would be comparable in features and generate .NET code? ...
Outlook security
Hi to Everyone!! Is there any other way to get rid of this outlook security message? "A program is trying to automatically send e-mail on your behalf ... and so on" and it gives me an option to select Yes , No & Help. Im currently developing an outlook automation app using Ms Access. Everytime I issue Send command this message popups,...
Alternative to Litmus?
We are currently in a desperate need for some manual test management tool. Currently we are using Excel which is unexciting at the very least. Essentially, litmus is what we need, however it's a pain to install, tailored to Mozilla, buggy and also hasn't been actively developed for a couple of years now. Can you recommend an open-sourc...
Mysql match against alternative
I need a search with a relevance algorithm and the database is mysql. I have to sort the results by date, if keyword is in title or not, number of apparitions of the keyword in the text and so on. Match against doesn't give me that much control. ...
Maven - which projects or techologies you are using it for?
I've been leading rather large project that strives to "Mavenize" various testing apps produced by the engineering tools group over past 5+ years to test and optimize our home-built database. So far our group managed to successfully retrofit (beside obvious Java) few Coldfusion-based apps, PHP app, large .NET app with about 30 modules an...
Linq Compound selection
How can i combine two arrays in to a single array during compound selection ( without using Union ) ( The question was asked at interview). var num1 = new int[] { 12, 3, 4, 5 }; var num2 = new int[] { 1, 33, 6, 10 }; I tried as var pairs = from a in num1 from b in num2 select new {combined={a,b}}; Expected: combined ne...
Interface :- Alternative Approach
I am beginner.Practicing in C# 3.0. The requirement is "i have to design model in such a way that ,it should iterate through all classes which implement particular interface (in this case IExpressWords) and execute the implemented method (void ExpressWords())" I collected all classes in a List and iterated. namespace InterfaceExample ...
C - alternative to #ifdef
I'm trying to streamline large chunk of legacy C code in which, even today, before doing the build guy who maintains it takes a source file(s) and manually modifies the following section before the compilation based on the various types of environment. The example follows but here's the question. I'm rusty on my C but I do recall that ...
open source alternatives to popular websites
Hello, The other day I came across Jaiku, which is a well structured microblogging system open sourced by Google. It surprised me I had never heard about this, so I was wondering what other open source alternatives exist for mainstream websites? I am not asking about forums, eCommerce, wiki's, CMS's, etc, where the market leaders are...
What is the state of non-Objective-C programming for iPhone?
After spending three weeks learning Objective-C and Cocoa programming for my work, I've been tasked with researching alternatives to it for iPhone development. I know of two existing alternatives, and one future possibility. C# MonoTouch is a C#.NET implementation with bindings for iPhone specific functionality such as touch screen a...