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Alternatives to IIS for windows to run ASP.NET

Are there any alternatives to IIS for windows to run ASP.NET? CassiniEx seems pretty old? ...

Smarty, the best choice?

We are developing a huge website, it will get lots of traffic, right now we are analyzing our options and Smarty looks nice but i have seen lots of flames about this, some love it some hate it. What do you think? Any real life experience with Smarty? If you hate it please write the reasons, same thing if you love it. ;) Advice about al...

CodeCharge Studio alternatives for Mac?

Hi, I'm a happy user of CodeCharge Studio but sadly it's the only reason to have a virtual machine with parallels, everybody here use a Mac. Does anyone know some other tool that generates PHP code and runs under OS X? ...

Are there any serious contendors to Visual Studio for .NET development?

EDIT: This post was originally specific to ASP.NET, but after thinking about it I'm quite interested to discover any contenders to .NET development. There used to be sharpdevelop IDE, which I'm not even sure if it did ASP.NET (it did WinForms). Express killed it off I think. EDIT: I was wrong about SharpDevelop (thanks for pointing tha...

Alternative of ASP.NET's UserControls in PHP?

I have developed many web applications in ASP.NET in which I have make use of UserControls to manage header footer and any other common part of a web page. Now I am developing an app in PHP, is there anything which I can use as an alternative of UserControls?? How I can implement the similar concept in PHP? Thanks? ...

Are there any in-memory databases that support computed columns?

We have a SQL 2005/2008 database that has a table with a computed column. We're using the computed column as a discriminator in NHibernate so having it in the database is proving to be very useful. In order to gain the benefits of faster integration tests, I'd like to be able to run our integration tests against an in-memory database su...

SmartGWT alternatives

I have been using SmartGWT but have run into trouble mixing SmartGWT with other frameworks such as Wicket. Infact it has been a bit of a disaster and I regret going with it in the first place. I do not want this question to turn into any type of flame war, so therefore would just like people to list alternatives and their experience wi...

Is there more beautiful database drawing software than visio?

Hello, I want to know if you know other beautiful database drawing software other than visio. Because i think visio is not delegant enough. So Can you give me some advice? Thanks a lot. ...

Good Visio Template (or alternative) for SOA/Distributed Systems?

Apologies if this has been asked (I couldn't see a duplicate when searching) but I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a reliable Visio template for SOA/Distributed Systems design or a decent alternative? What have you found which works well for you? There isn't anything which stands out from either the templates shipped with Visio P...

What is a good programming language to learn to broaden a C# developers mind?

I was reading The Pragmatic Programmer last night and it recommends learning a whole host of languages as you go through your career - even if you'll never use them. I'd always thought this would be a good idea, but the book has given me enough impetus to think about it seriously. It also mentions (words to the effect of) "learn object ...

ORM alternatives to ActiveRecord

To begin with this post in no ways undermines ActiveRecord. I am pretty happy with it, but for the sake of knowledge and to try a few options are there any other alternatives to ActiveRecord available? Has anybody used some other ORM than ActiveRecord, if yes then which ORM is that? Please share your experience. ...

open source (or otherwise) versions of Matlab toolboxes

I have a project in a course at the university that requires various Matlab functions. My version of Matlab is supplied by my workplace, and it doesn't have some of the toolboxes that are required for the project. Is there some repository of such implementations anywhere? I couldn't find anything relevant when I googled. While my que...

PHP alternatives?

Are there alternatives to PHP that perform faster and have somewhat the same feature set (like support for common RDBMS, Curl, Regex, etc)? What about coding websites in C? How does that work out? Is that platform independent and works on each server? ...

What are the alternatives to Pervasive DataRush

We are looking into the solution that facilitate massively parallel data processing. Our processing graphs are often rather complex, so well developed operator framework like one Pervasive DataRush provides comes handy. Does anyone know any alternative solutions to one from Pervasive? DataRush is Java but I would like to consider all pla...

jQuery vs. javascript?

I recently stumbled upon some javascript forums (sadly, link is lost somewhere in the universe), where you could feel real hate against jQuery for not being... any good? Most arguments seem to make sense actually. Now, I really like jQuery, mostly for letting me concentrate on things I want to do rather on browser inconsistencies and i...

High-End 2D Java (SE) Graphics Library

I am looking for a high-end graphics library for Java Standard Edition. I know some fairly low-level libraries: AWT/Swing, JOGL, SDL. Are/is there an alternative? My requirements are (atleast): Anti-aliased Fullscreen support Alpha channel Blend modes and Z-depth Rasterized Effects: (motion) blur, glow, gloom, etc. And, optionally: ...

Are there any good alternatives for Visio/PowerPoint?

Are there any good alternatives for Visio/PowerPoint for drawing architectural diagrams. Both Visio and PowerPoint are annoying to use even for some of the simplest tasks. wondering if someone out there has a better suggestion. ...

Are there any alternatives to shell_exec and proc_open in PHP?

It seems like I can't use shell_exec or proc_open on my shared server. The message I get when I try to use it is: Warning: shell_exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/georgee/public_html/admin/email.php on line 4 Are there any alternatives to these functions? ...

Can you access AppleScript APIs from shell script on Mac OS X?

I already do a lot with shell scripts on the Mac, but I loathe AppleScript, and I would love to be able to access Mac apps' APIs in some other way. Does anyone know any other way to get the power of AppleScript without the pain of its horrible syntax and meager documentation (and its slowness, if possible)? ...

URL equals and checking Internet access

On http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URL.html it states that: Compares this URL for equality with another object. If the given object is not a URL then this method immediately returns false. Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same port number...