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What collab. software do I need?

Hello, I'm in a bit of a situation right now. I need software that does the business side of Sharepoint. The software will be used in a company intranet. Ideally, I'd go with SharePoint, and although what I'm technially looking for is a PHP Sharepoint alternative, PHP is not tasked up to deal with the same tasks as SharePoint. What I d...

Winsock alternative (no, not WinPCAP)

Are there any viable alternatives to Winsock for C++? The reason I need of is because Winsock's raw sockets are not behaving properly (no, this is not fixable, don't waste your time asking) and WinPCAP can only monitor network traffic, not actually receive packets. I need something that can receive complete packets including any IP, UDP,...

Alternative to java/flash for low-latency bidirectional communications in webapps?

I would like to design webapps (eg. games) that have low latency. I presume that the header of ajax would add latency. What I really would like is a protocol where the connection is never broken, and both client and server can push data to each other immediately. (and thus comet isn't really a choice, since there is communication only on...

Alternatives to .NET provided apis regarding uris and urls

I've recently come to the realization that the .NET apis working with URLs and URIs frequently come up short in achieving even basic functionality (atleast easily) including things such as: generating a FQDN url from a relative path, forcing https or back to http, getting the root of the site, combining relative urls properly and so fort...

Modern language with the advantages of FORTRAN?

I've been working with a lot of FORTRAN 77 lately, and though I had reservations at first, I now see some great qualities of the language. It is: Simple to learn (no object-oriented or functional-programming complications) Easy to read Blazing fast at number-crunching Those qualities are naturally attractive to non-programmer engine...

Better way, than this, to rename files using Python

Hello, I am python newbie and am still discovering its wonders. I wrote a script which renames a number of files : from Edison_03-08-2010-05-02-00_PM.7z to Edison_08-03-2010-05-02-00_PM.7z "03-08-2010" is changed to "08-03-2010" The script is: import os, os.path location = "D:/codebase/_Backups" files = os.listdir(location) for old...

Performance profiling of Windows Apps. Better alternatives for Visual Studio Profiler?

I am impressed with Visual Studio Profiler for performance analysis. Fast for my purposes and easy to use. I am just curious to know about the caveats in visual studio profiler. Are there any better profilers for windows applications which fare better for these caveats? ...

Alternative for portlets, webparts ?

I don't like webparts because of sharepoint and activeX, for java portlets they say that they are dead. So what alternative do I have ? I want to develop a portal made from parts/widgets/gadgets which can be independantly developed. I think iGoogle could be something that I nedd but I am not sure if this is true. Beside I can't use 3r...

Alternatives to WMI

For Windows, what other frameworks or programming languages I could use that are similar to WMI's monitoring and system management functionalities? ...

Renderware Alternative

I know this is old news but EA bought out Criterion and killed Renderware, citing some ridiculous "it's not good enough for next-gen" reason. Anyone know of a good, solid alternative? I really DON'T want to have to reinvent the wheel for multiple platforms -_- ...

Alternative to winforms that can be easily used with C# and .NET

I am tired of flickering of GUI and every possible control, milions of articles about double-buffering, ControlStyle flags and so on that don't even work; look at this examples: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1333393/how-to-prevent-a-windows-forms-textbox-from-flickering-on-resize After reading this question, other on SO, and many ...

Datagrid friendly web stacks?

Hi all, I have an internal web application that updates a database schema equivalent to something like this: cds ( cd_id : primary key title : string ) tracks ( track_id : primary key title : string ) cd_tracks ( cd_id : references cds(cd_id) track_number : integer track_id : references tracks(track_id) ) That is, a t...

OpenSource alternatives on XCloner

Is there any existing alternative on XCloner for Joomla or WP? Sultan ...

Looking for free GITHUB (enterprise/FI edition) alternative for private installation

Are there any good alternatives for Github Enterprise Edition for a private network? have about 30 dev's and a ton of projects. Moving away from Subversion as well so any methods to keep the history as well would be nice. Maybe archive in git somehow and start a fresh branch going forward. Project and Developer News Feeds Source Code B...

An alternative to PropertyGrid? Please hear me out.

I know this is a wide topic, but please hear me out. I have a few instances where I need to edit a set of related properties. Some are free text, another might be an integer or password, and many more have predefined options (a selectbox). I basically need a container that repeats rows of text on the left with a control on the right. ...

Jquery nextUntil() alternative.

I have the following code which it was provided by Nick in a previous question and it work like a dream. What I am trying "I am trying to generate a jquery script to make all tr elements from a table with class top clickeable and when one tr with class top is clicked all tr below with class bt until there is another tr class top will ...