Hi, Curious if others feel the same as me. To me, controls such as datagrid/gridview/formview/etc. are great for presentations or demo's only. To take the time and tweak this controls, override their default behavior (hooking into their silly events etc.) is a big headache. The only control that I use is the repeater, since it offers ...
I'm currently using Wordpress to run my website. However, with each new release I become more concerned with software bloat and the convoluted table structures used to store my data. Maybe this is a fruitless pursuit. Features are always added to blogging software until it claims to be a CMS--and at that point your data is probably st...
Other than for testing purposes or plain inertia: Sometimes it's the older version of some program that is more suitable for what you need. Perhaps it's because of feature-creep in the later versions or because of some compatibility which the newer one doesn't support, or just because there isn't enough of a difference to upgrade for, et...
What is the smallest Java SVG engine (least/smallest jars) that actually works? If your answer is Batik, what is the minimal dep. graph for getting this to work in a simple Java application? I've looked at the dependency graph on the Batik site, but it looks like a typical Apache mess. Aren't there better alternatives? ...
Hi folks, I wrote a GTK+ app whose .exe is small, but of course like all GTK+ apps it links with many DLLs (under Windows). What my program does at this point is construct a GUI that consists of a GtkWindow, GtkTable, and about 12 others widgets. That's it. Yet when I start it up it takes about 8 seconds on my 2 GHz WinXP machine. Is ...
I've worked with some open source databases (mysql, postgres and firebird). They all have small and lean drivers for ado.net and are quite easy to configure. I'm currently working with IBM/DB2 and Oracle. They are hard to get working and you have to install several megabytes to get a small driver. Why can't they create drivers that are ...