I am starting a new web application in PHP and I this time around I want to create something that people can extend by using a plug-in interface. I am a very confident PHP developer however I have never done this before so I'm not really sure where to start. How does one go about writing 'hooks' into their code so that plug-ins can att...
After upgrading a rails 1.2 website to 2.1, the ExceptionNotifier plugin no longer works, complaining about this error: ActionView::TemplateFinder::InvalidViewPath: Unprocessed view path found: "/path/to/appname/vendor/plugins/exception_notification/lib/../views". Set your view paths with #append_view_path, #prepend_view_path, or #vie...
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If you've ever used Eclipse, you've probably noticed the great keyboard shortcuts that let you hit a shortcut key combination, then just type the first few characters of a function, class, filename, etc. It's even smart enough to put open files first in the list. I'm looking for a similar functionality for Visual Studio 2008. I know t...
I'm so tired of not having tabbed browsing when navigating through windows explorer. I've tried a few solutions in the past, but what I really want is just an extension/addon/plugin/something that lets me browse my file system with tabs. Does anyone have any good solutions that they have found to do this? Alternatively, I'm willing to ...
As a long time World of Warcraft player, and a passionate developer I have decided that I would like to combine the two and set about developing some addins. Not only to improve my gameplay experience but as a great opportunity to learn something new. Does anyone have any advice on how to go about starting out? Is there an IDE one can us...
Is there a general procedure for programming extensibility capability into your code? I am wondering what the general procedure is for adding extension-type capability to a system you are writing so that functionality can be extended through some kind of plugin API rather than having to modify the core code of a system. Do such things ...
I've always wanted a way to make a socket connection to a server and allow the server to manipulate the page DOM. For example, this could be used in a stock quotes page, so the server can push new quotes as they become available. I know this is a classic limitation (feature?) of HTTP's request/response protocol, but I think this coul...
Does anyone here know any resources on how to get started writing a plugin for Google's Picasa? I love it for photo management, but I have some ideas for how it could be better. Riya-esque facial search: given a large enough corpus of faces and pictures (people tend to be repeated often in individuals' albums (family, friends), I wou...
I've been thinking about switching from my current PhpEd / UltraEdit combination to using this VS.PHP plugin that I just found a few days ago. The problem is that I don't have much free time, so I'm hoping that there are other people who can give me an opinion on it, especially concerning the remote debugging capabilities since I always ...
I'd like to provide some way of creating dynamically lodable plugins in my software. Typicial way to do this is using the LoadLibrary WinAPI fuction to load a dll and calling GetProcAddress to get an pointer to a function inside that dll. My question is how do I dynamically load a plugin in C#/.Net application? ...
What recommendations can you give for a system which must do the following: Load Plugins (and eventually execute them) but have 2 methods of loading these plugins: Load only authorized plugins (developed by the owner of the software) Load all plugins And we need to be reasonably secure that the authorized plugins are the real deal...
I'm creating a plugin framework, where my application loads a series of plugin DLL's, then creates a new window and pass this new window's handle to the plugin. The plugin can, then, use this handle to create their own GUI. Everything seems to be working very well. The only problem is that when I press TAB on a plugin widget (An editbox...
I'm trying to create a webapplication where I want to be able to plug-in separate assemblies. I'm using MVC preview 4 combined with Unity for dependency injection, which I use to create the controllers from my plugin assemblies. I'm using WebForms (default aspx) as my view engine. If I want to use a view, I'm stuck on the ones that are ...
I'm using Intridea's Acts as Readable Rails plugin for a messaging system I'm currently building. I've defined my message class accordingly: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base acts-as-readable end And everything seems to be working according to plan, but when trying to execute to show unread messages in my message view, I'm running int...
Hi, I'm looking for opinions on the best JavaScript editor available as an Eclipse plugin. I've been using Spket, which is good, but I'm convinced there must be something better out there, is there....? Cheers, Donal ...
FCKeditor has InsertHtml API (JavaScript API document) that inserts HTML in the current cursor position. How do I insert at the very end of the document? Do I need to start browser sniffing with something like this if ( element.insertAdjacentHTML ) // IE element.insertAdjacentHTML( 'beforeBegin', html ) ; else ...
I am looking for a CMS that would be incredibly user-friendly and would have the following features: really simple message board (no login required) family tree story telling area photo section news section Is there anything out there like this that is really easily configurable? I've already messed around with Mambo and Family Conne...
I want to create a Java program that can be extended with plugins. How can I do that and where should I look for? I have a set of interfaces that the plugin must implement, and it should be in a jar. The program should watch for new jars in a relative (to the program) folder and registered them somehow. ...