customization

Best practice for source control of a customized Open Source project

I have been using an open source Java project and had to make some custom changes for our site. I have downloaded the source code via Subversion, modified two files and built a custom JAR file. Now I need to store these custom changes into OUR Subversion source control system. What is the best way to do this? Should I check the entire t...

configure emacs variables for a specific function

I run an email client in a separate emacs window (usually connecting to gnuserv), for example, emacs -f wl (the email client being Wanderlust, which probably doesn't matter much). Is it possible to make emacs remember my preferred window layout, main window dimensions, fonts, colours, etc., to set these up only when wl is called?...

template customization / rails reloading

Hi there; I'm looking for giving the ability to user to modify code in a minimal part of a rails app, part that is located in the app directory. I'm stuck with the "not reload anything automatically in production", is there a way to avoid it ? (talking about "user's template customization"; is liquid a way through this problem ? don't s...

Methods for modular customization of locale messages?

There many levels for the customization of programs. First of course is making it speak your language by creating i18n messages where tools like gettext and xgettext do a great job. Another comes when you need to modify the meaning of some messages to suite the purpose of your project. The question is: is it possible to keep customize...

git submodules: customization

When using git submodules, what is the preferred way of doing customizations? Should I... fork the project and track the fork attempt to override the default behavior make the changes locally If none of these makes sense, then what does? ...

How to deploy custom Office 2007 themes to multiple users

Folks, As part of our customization to MS Office 2007, we developed a number of custom theme files (.thmx). The only way we now to deploy the custom theme is to copy them into %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes, for each user to allow the user to see the theme under his theme gallery drop down. This is a not a problem for a...

Customizing app.config

I'd like to be able to extend ConfigurationManager so that I have an app.config some like the following: <configuration> <databases> <add name="db1" server="someServer" dbName="superDB" userName="" password=""/> <add name="db2" server="anotherServer" dbName="ordinaryDB" userName="dba" password="dba"/> </databases> </configurat...

customize JMenuBar (e.g. BackgroundImage, highlighting color,...)

I'd like to adapt/customize the appearance of my JMenuBar, so i do a little research. Now i wondering why there are so little information about this issue?! I just found one good source here: http://forums.sun.com thread.jspa?messageID=4457769#4457769 which allows me to use a BackgroundImage for the MenuBar. The drawback is that i have ...

SharePoint Document Library Customization for document view

I have a document library in MOSS 2007 which has folders and files. Document View in the document library has the following columns: document name, type, Created datetime, created by,modified datetime. How to configure the view so that it doesn't show any information for "modified", "created" and "created by" fields for folders. In other...

asp.net mvc generic/custom views

the routes are as follows site.com/{section1}/{page1} site.com/{section1}/{page2} site.com/{section2}/{page3} etc. the pages are 2 column each where the left bar is different for each section the page content is fetched from the database based on section + page combination I'd like to make the page markup/layout/css be done/upload...

asp.net mvc change master page & .css dynamically

Is there a good way to change the MasterPage and/or .css dynamically in asp.net mvc based on the user preferences? I understand I can change the master name as follows: return View("viewName", "master-name", oModel) and the view using a different contentPlaceHolder perhaps but that requires changing each controller+action. I'd have ...

Customizing WinForms ErrorProvider to display it's icon inside control's entry

Hi, I have some custom/user controls that in most cases have label and entry, like this: Is there any way I can customize standard WinForms ErrorProvider to display it's icon inside entry (entry - textbox, combo, datetime etc...), like this: where red elipse is of course error indicator. Thanks for any help. ...

Ctrl+Tab in Visual Studio 2008

My Question: Is there a way to set up Visual Studio to use the Style of Ctrl+Tabbing so that it doesn't remember the order of tabs and just goes to the next tab or previous tab depending on the usage of the "Shift" key? Maybe a registry setting (I think that there was something for this in TweakUI for Windows XP)? or a program setti...

What is your experience with Adempiere CRM for customization and development?

What is your experience with ADempiere CRM? The demos and docs are good; what are you experiences in developing and customizing with it? Is there a reason to go with Compiere CRM instead? ...

ASP.NET MVC customization - Inherit or alter Framework

If you wanted to alter the way that routes were processed can you do that in a MVC project OR do you have to alter the MVC Framework? For example lets say you have the standard code in RegisterRoutes of Global.asax.cs: public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) { routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}"); ...

How to custom display prompt in KSH to show hostname and current directory?

I'm using Korn Shell on Solaris and currently my PS1 env var is: PS1="${HOSTNAME}:\${PWD} \$ " And the prompt displays: hostname:/full/path/to/current/directory $ However, I'd like it to display: hostname:directory $ In other words, how can I display just the hostname and the name of the current directory, i.e. tmp or ~ or public_h...

SharePoint View to automatically show only the current month?

I need to create a view that will automatically change from month to month to show only the current month (i.e. if current month is July - show items posted in July). Currently I have a view set up, but I have to manually change the month each time it changes (it's set up based on the first day of the current month and the last day of cu...

Extending Filenet P8 3.5 Worplace with custom GUI and code

I'm not familiar with Filnet P8. My assumptions from reading some online docs is that it has a central web-based user interface called Workplace which is implemented on the Java web stack and communicates with the core parts of Filenet through Java APIs. Also it seems you can extend the Workplace trough JSR 186 compliant portlets. - fr...

MS CRM 4 - Custom name for entity lookup link

When I have a custom entity Referral, the primary attribute is a refid and this is what shows up in associated views (as the link text that opens Referral form). I need to change this name to something that is generated from entity attributes). Something like: Referral.ToString() { return ref.id + " " + ref.first_name + " " + ref.last_n...

Expert R users, what's in your .Rprofile?...

This question is maybe a little too cute, but I have always found startup profile files of other people both useful and instructive about the language. Moreover, while I have some customization for bash and vim, I have nothing for R. For example, one thing I always wanted is different colors for input and output text in a window terminal...