What is your primary development machine - a Desktop or a laptop? Why? Do you use both - if so, do you use source control to keep them synched? This might seem like a dumb question but I'm on the steep part of the learning curve & I'd be interested in your insights. [edit] - Using a laptop assumes hanging an Imax-sized screen off it w...
I wondered if anyone uses virtualized desktop PCs (running WinXP Pro or older) to have some old applications that are seldom used available for some ongoing tasks. Say you have a really old project that every once in a while needs a document update in a database system or something like that. The database application is running on a vir...
Has anyone got a working solution without some Java/COM-bridge? E.g. process the Email as a file (.msg) rather than locating the data that is referenced in the Clipboard? ...
Consider the need to develop a lightweight desktop DB application on the Microsoft platforms. It could be done fairly easily with MS Access but I'd like to be able to distribute it to others and I don't want to pay for a runtime license. Requirements: easy distribution to others no runtime licensing issues Considerations and Cand...
I have a project to build a voting desktop application for a class in Java. While security isn't the focus of the project, I would like to be as realistic as I can. What are some of the primary tools to integrate security into a Java application. Edit: I'm not primarily worried about physical security, we are simply building an applicat...
How can I improve the look and feel of my Linux desktop to suit my programming needs? I found Compiz and it makes switching between my workspaces (which is something I do all the time to make the most of my 13.3" screen laptop) easy and look great - so what else don't I know about that make my programming environment more productive/ple...
I have a large tree of Java Objects in my Desktop Application and am trying to decide on the best way of persisting them as a file to the file system. Some thoughts I've had were: Roll my own serializer using DataOutputStream: This would give me the greatest control of what was in the file, but at the cost of micromanaging it. Straig...
Heyall... I want to build a lightweight linux configuration to use for development. The first idea is to use it inside a Virtual Machine under Windows, or old Laptops with 1Gb RAM top. Maybe even a distributable environment for developers. So the whole idea is to use a LAMP server, Java Application Server (Tomcat or Jetty) and X Window...
I want to open a folder window, in the appropriate file manager, from within a cross-platform (windows/mac/linux) Python application. On OSX, I can open a window in the finder with os.system('open "%s"' % foldername) and on Windows with os.startfile(foldername) What about unix/linux? Is there a standard way to do this or do I have...
My LCD rotates. The software that comes with my ATI card to rotate the desktop just crashes (I've uninstalled, reinstalled and rolled them back, still crashes). Is there any other way to rotate a Windows XP Desktop by 90 degree increments? I am looking for either software or code (any language is fine.) I know I have seen 3rd party s...
Hi, I am working on designing and building a desktop application. I am thinking about using eclipse or netbeans for the base of this application. However, I have never built on either of these platforms. I am personally leaning to using netbeans because it seams like that platform is an easer learning curve. But, I wanted to ask peo...
I'm looking for a python library that will help me to create an authentication method for a desktop app I'm writing. I have found several method in web framework such as django or turbogears. I just want a kind of username-password association stored into a local file. I can write it by myself, but I'm really it already exists and will ...
We have a number of scripts that we use for various deployment and data import tasks. These are currently called through a number of command lines calls or batch files. We'd prefer a cool little interface to run them and collect feedback rather than a plethora of drop downs. This will probably be developed in our developer's "20% time" ...
Background: I'm running a full-time job and a part-time job in the weekends, and both my employers have supplied a laptop for me to work on. Of course I also have my powerful workstation at home to work from, and sometimes when I'm at the office at my weekend job (it's in another city) I'm working from yet another workstation. Problem:...
Hi, I want to add an item into the Desktop context menu (the menu you see when you right-click on an empty space on the Windows Desktop). Something like Catalyst Control Center in this screenshot: I know how to add items to files' and folders' context menus through registry, but the Desktop seems to work differently: I didn't even f...
Hello, fellow anthropoids and lily pads and paddlewheels! I'm developing a Windows desktop app in C#/.NET/WPF, using VS 2008. The app is required to install and run on Vista and XP machines. I'm working on a Setup/Windows Installer Project to install the app. My app requires read/modify/write access to a SQLCE database file (.sdf) and ...
Do you write consumer desktop applications with .NET languages? If so what type? My impression is that most consumer desktop applications are still native compiled applications in C, C++ and the like. Whilst .NET languages are growing in up take and popularity, do these new breed of applications ever break out of the enterprise & web d...
I've been using Destop.open() to launch a .pdf viewer on Windows machines, both Vista and XP, and most of them work just fine. However, on one XP machine the call does not work, simply returning without throwing any exceptions, and the viewer does not launch. On that machine the file association is properly set up as far as I can tell:...
I'm trying to remotely control a macintosh computer. I know that in the windows world, you can use Remote Desktop to connect from one windows computer to another windows computer. This works relatively well. I know that you can use a VNC server but this isn't always the most secure or give the best performance. Are there other opti...
I'm new to Air. I've got an existing Flex 2 application which I'm considering bringing into Flexbuilder 3. My question is can I use the same base application (and source code) to make the Air version, or would I have to maintain to separate code trees: one for the Air version and one for the Flex/SWF version? ...