alternatives

Automata based alternative to re2

I am needing to implement regular expressions in a C++ program I am writing, and I wanted to use re2 but I could not compile it on windows. Does anyone know of another regular expression library or whatever it's called that compiles easily on windows and isn't a "backtracking" regex engine, but an automata-theory based one (whatever that...

IFrame alternatives

Is there anything else I could use instead of an iframe on my web page by where I still need to pass a url or is iframe it? Thanks. ...

Properties file in python (similar to Java Properties)

Given the following format (.properties or .ini): propertyName1=propertyValue1 propertyName2=propertyValue2 ... propertyNameN=propertyValueN For Java there is the Properties class that offers functionality to parse / interact with the above format. Is there something similar in python's standard library (2.x) ? If not, what other al...

How did Java programmers survive before annotations?

Before the introduction of annotations in Java, how was the same functionality achieved? Such a huge portion of what I do every day in Java involves annotations that I can't imagine what it would be like to program without them. What would be an alternative way of achieving the same functionality without annotations? ...

How develop Android applications?

I'm really new with this thing of "Android development" and I was really excited when I found Appcelerator Titanium, but now I got the big surprise, it doesn't work on my computer. What other alternatives are there for Android development specially if they include HTML, JavaScript and CSS for creating such applications? ...

Can one assign 4 little-endian-ordered bytes of an unsigned integer to a Java primitive using just bitwise operators?

I want to read 4 bytes which are a little-endian encoding of an unsigned 32-bit integer, and assign the value to a Java int (Yes, in reality I will use a 'long', but in this case I 'know' that the unsigned value is never so big that it will overflow a signed int in two's complement notation, and it suits my illustration to use an int)....

What are the available XUL alternatives ?

Hello Guys. Are there any XUL alternatives that enable me to write cross platform Javascript Applications ? ...