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How can I remain productive with one hand completely immobilized?

I broke my left collarbone and my left hand completely immobilized so I can type only with my right hand (thank God I'm right-handed). As you can imagine my typing speed is greatly reduced. Can anyone suggest a way to overcome this impediment, maybe some emacs mode or Visual Studio plug-in which is specially designed for people who can ...

Managing multiple Visual Studio Layouts

I'm currently using Visual Studio 2008. As other applications, it saves its layout in their setting folder. That's fine. But, my problem is that I often launch 3~4 Visual Studios, and change each instance's layout. However, Visual Studio can only remember a single set of layout of the last terminated instance. I don't blame this limitat...

Javascript: How to simulate cursor with arrow key control for positioning DOM edits?

I'm building an in-browser IDE using Javascript. The code/widgets are stored in the document. I want control over the editing process so I am intercepting keystrokes and displaying a simulated cursor where the edit point is in the DOM. (At first I tried using contenteditable = true but that isn't giving me enough control.) I've made s...

Easiest, free way to start with Flex?

I'm interested in getting started with Flex, as I've wanted to work with flash for quite awhile but have never liked the designer-oriented way of programming. I've heard flex can be used for free, and is programmer friendly, but I'm having some issues... I can't find any good sites with flex resources. I'm used to PHP, so maybe I'm spoil...

Visual Studio Config File Editor - Not Formatting

Hi All, My VS 2008 seems to be acting a bit weird and the solution is eluding me. The problem is that if I open a config file; app.config or web.config, this looks and behaves as a plain text document. I have no formatting, no coloring, no intellisense and no collapsible or expandable regions. I have reset all setting and restored de...

Most up to date environment for classic ASP development

Hi all, I've inherited a Classic ASP application that requires some maintenance. What's the most up to date/capable IDE and Operation System that I can use to perform this maintenance? I'll be setting up the Env in a VM - so won't be tied to it full time. Hopefully there's something newer than Visual Interdev for me to use. Ideally I...

How to click a link that opens a sign in page on another page/window using Selenium IDE

Hello peeps, newbie here, i'm trying to get the value of a link using document.getelementbyClass/Name & then navigate to the page the link points to in a different window/tab using Selenium IDE. All suggestions gratefully received, thanks ...

Are there any tools in IDEs to automatically fix comment formatting?

/* Suppose I have a multi-line comment with hard line-breaks * that are roughly uniform on the right side of the text, * and I want to add text to a line in order to make the * comment a bit more descriptive. */ Now, most unfortunately, I need to add text to one of the top lines. /* Suppose I have a multi-line comment with hard li...

What challenges are there in making an iPhone IDE for Windows/Linux?

First of all, is this possible? If so: What challenges would I encounter in making an XCode imitation for iPhone/iPod development for Windows or Linux? I was thinking about using gcc as the actual compiler for the objective-c and (VB).NET for the IDE. Will that work? It doesn't need to compile to iPhone OS until it is to be tested o...

Online .NET IDE?

Does anyone know of a (free?) web-based IDE for .NET development online? ...

What xdebug dll should I use under Vertrigo 2.21 and windows 7 and how to confugure it ?

I used to utilize php_xdebug-2.0.3-5.2.5.dll under Windows XP but it is not adopted by Win7 ? What is the thread safe and thread not safe ? ...

How do I write extensions for dreamweaver cs4? What limitations are there on what extensions can do?

I use dreamweaver cs4 as my main php coding editor. I am wondering if anyone has any information on how exactly to write a dreamweaver extension? Also, what can / can't you do ? Specifically, I want to write an extension that will allow me to quickly search my file tree and then open a file, via a quick auto complete search box locate...

what is the best free editor for xslt and mybe xsl:fo and xml?

Hello im looking for free IDE to work with xslt and xml's and even xsl:fo is there any out there? ( i really didn't found any free tool ..) ...

Flash Builder 'building' html files...

I'm using Flash Builder 3 to edit my Flex app, but I noticed that every time I make a change on the .html files (index.template.html for example), even if it's not in the IDE but with another program, Flash Builder rebuilds the whole project. Is there anyway to stop this? Why would it need to rebuild the workspace everytime a html file ...

I would like to ask if netbeans IDE is alright to use in GUI building?

is that alright for the programming industry? when you are using the 'auto generated codes' ? ...

Auto complete a statement in eclipse

Is there a way to auto complete a statement in eclipse? If I type if (condition) it should, after pressing some key, become if (condition) { // putting cursor here } ...

What is the most Interesting and innovative IDE?

As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introduced? ...

What are the tools needed in order to create a GUI application?

in more easy way except the netbeans generated codes because i don't like the codes they generated. ...

What Implementation of Forth to use for Learning Forth

I want to start learning Forth (like in this related article). I see that there are many implementations. I would like to use a ANS 1994 compatible version (if reasonable, but sticking to the standard might be good) small and compact implementation, I don't want a full OS. Windows easy to use, I am new to Forth ;-) Can anybody recomm...

Update and Install problems with Eclipse

When I try to install/update any plugin from Help -> Install New Software I receive error messages like this: No repository found at http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo. or Unable to connect to repository http://pydev.org/updates/site.xml Invalid argument This happens with all Eclipse versions. I use Eclipse on Debian Sid...