Important UI Features That Are Often Left Out
I really want to know if I'm missing anything obvious in the software I'm developing. What User Interface features that you consider important are often missing in most software? ...
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Best feature(s) in Visual Studio 2008 (and VSTS)?
Visual Studio has certainly gone from strength to strength since humble Visual Studio 6 (and previous renditions). There seems to be a lot more coming in Visual Studio 2010 (based on blogs, the PDC and the more recent CTP virtual machines). The recent Service Pack 1 seemed to introduce some really intriguing new functionality and enhan...
Where did Open Table go in SQL Server 2008?
As of SQL Server 2005, you used to be able to open a flat file in SQL Management Studio off the right click menu for any database table. Once opened, you could add or update records right there in the grid. Now that SQL Server 2008 is out, Microsoft has hidden that feature, at least from the right-click menu. Where did it go? ...
Which common features of desktop applications do most web applications miss?
Stackoverflow User Luke wrote in this answer: The boundaries between desktop and web applications have really blurred. Whilst once upon a time the nature of developing for the web was totally different to developing for the desktop, nowadays you find the same concepts [...] cropping up in both. Since I am continually lo...
Most Important Features for a CMS
Suppose someone is build you a CMS (Content Management System) from scratch. What are the most important features to include and why? ...
(Emacs (and Vim)) vs JEdit: Which ones support multiple simultaneous text insertion points?
Background: JEdit (and some other text editors as well) support a feature called Multiple simultaneous text insertion points. (at least that's what I'm calling it here). To understand what this means, take a look at the link. Out of all the features in use in modern text editors, initial research seems to indicate that this is one fea...
How to multi-line "Replace in files..." in Notepad++
If the free source code editor Notepad++ has the feature "Find in files...", that is without the files being opened in the editor, does it not also have the feature "Replace in files..."? Notepad++ is based on the editing component Scintilla - for which at SourceForge there is a response to a request for this feature: "No need for this ...
How do you find out what users really want?
I've read somewhere (I forget the source, sorry - I think the MS Office developer's blog?), that when you do a survey of users asking them about what features they would like to see in your software/website, they will more often than not say that they want every little thing, whereas collected metrics show that in the end, most people do...
What can C++ do that is too hard or messy in any other language?
I still feel C++ offers some things that can't be beaten. It's not my intention to start a flame war here, please, if you have strong opinions about not liking C++ don't vent them here. I'm interested in hearing from C++ gurus about why they stick with it. I'm particularly interested in aspects of C++ that are little known, or underut...
Which are the SQL improvements you are waiting for?
Dealing with SQL shows us some limitations and gives us an opportunity to imagine what could be. Which improvements to SQL are you waiting for? Which would you put on top of the wish list? I think it can be nice if you post in your answer the database your feature request lacks. ...
Feature or Bug Syndrome or How to use my bugtracking software for project management?
I started using FogBugz as my project management tool. So I keep adding bugs and new features to it. The problem is FogBugz doesn't support subtasks for features, therefore I'm ending up adding all steps of implementing a feature as a text into the description box. But so far this is quite inefficient in many ways. It's not clear "what ...
What are the major differences between databases?
I'm not fanatic on any database but I wish to see differences between vendors. For instance, I use mostly Oracle and I see that others (MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, ...) cannot do: Connect by queries. Model queries. Flash back (query, table and database). The same for SQL Server, that others cannot do: Top results. ...
Deploy jQuery using a SharePoint Feature or physical files?
We are about to undertake a rather large customization of SharePoint and I wanted to get some feedback prior to jumping in with both feet. One of the issues we are kicking the tires on is do we deploy the jQuery javascript library to the 12 hive directly (making it available in _layouts for each site etc.) or do we wrap it up in a featur...
How different is CakePHP from Ruby on Rails?
I almost never hear the word CakePHP without hearing the word Rails shortly afterwards. Are these two frameworks mainly similar based on how they adhere to the MVC model or do they have other significant similarities/differences? One of the main attractions of Rails for me is how easy it is to do Ajax. Would that also be true of CakePH...
Should I heed Derek Sivers' warnings about migrating from PHP to Rails?
As you probably know, Derek Sivers is the guy who created CD Baby and eventually sold it for some big bucks. He wrote it in PHP originally and then down the road set about rewriting it in Rails. His troubles are the stuff of legend: 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails That article came out in 2007 but being newly in...
What can you NOT do in Rails that you can do in another framework?
I'd like to know situations in which I should consider using a framework other than Rails. ...
when a bug for client is really a new feature
I read what-payment-structure-do-you-use-for-small-projects and I wonder how you guys are dealing with bug vs. feature. I once had a situation where a client wanted static reports. Then near the end of the project after most of the work on reports had been done he said he had always wanted dynamic reports. That change was not easy, beca...
What features do you wish were part of C#?
... and things that you still look forward to seeing in the upcoming versions. ...
How to upload a publishing page using features?
Hi, I'm trying to make a feature to upload a new publishing page in "Pages" library but it doesn't works the way I want. If I see the library using SharePoint Designer my publishing page appears, but it doesn't if I use Internet Explorer. In the feature I configure the properties: ContentTypeId, ContentTye, Author, Title, FileRef, File...
CMFCRebar on a dialog box.......
Can we create a CMFCRebar on a dialog box? If yes, then how? I need to have a CMFCReBar drawn on a dialog box with a toolbar and and menubar. ...