Compiling .net projects in Notepad++
Download this file and put it in your Documents folder:
Download tryCompile.txt (rename it as .bat)
Rename it to tryCompile.bat... and always read batch files before running them on your own machine. (On a stranger's machine you can afford to be less cautious)

PyPN provides a great way to add functionality to Programmer’s Notepad by writing simple Python code, but you might want to do something more advanced. For this there’s the Programmer’s Notepad Extension SDK.
The SDK lets you extend PN using C++, allowing you to react to editor events and provide new commands in the menu. PyPN is itself implemented as an extension using this same SDK, and you can use the SDK to provide support for other scripting languages too.

This is a really interesting approach to coding. The video gets the point across very well...
Zen Coding is a system for writing HTML and CSS in text editors, expanding shorthand notation to full code.

Windows/Mac/Linux: Wildly popular open-source media player VLC has updated to version 2.0 and brought a mountain of new and upgraded features with it–including enhanced codec support, hardware decoding, and experimental Blu-ray support.

The new release is a substantial overhaul of the VLC platform that includes a rewritten video output core, half a dozen new video filter algorithms to clean up video and provide a smoother viewing experience, audio resamplers, faster audio processing, multi-thread processor support for popular video formats like H.264, enhanced hardware support for CrystalHD cards and other hardware decoders, and even experimental support of Blu-ray playback.

(link buttons) CSS Button Generator will create beautiful css buttons for you to use on your web pages without the need for any images. When you have styled your button to your liking, simply click on the generated button to get your css style code. Share our site using a button below!

Optimized for high-performance pure string-based rendering, without DOM or jQuery dependency. (Current version - "codeless" tag syntax)

Next-generation jQuery Templates, optimized for high-performance pure string-based rendering, without DOM or jQuery dependency.

Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others.
Classic Shell Web Site

Posts Tagged ‘Backbone.js’
Backbone.js by example – Part 1
Posted on January 11, 2012, 10:11 pm, by Chaker Nakhli, under Scripting.

Backbone.js is a Javascript MVC (model-view-controller) library that provides complete support for building clean and easy to maintain client side code. What I like in Backbone.js is its light weight (~4.5kb) and that it doesn’t get in my way by imposing how my application should be architected or organised. Backbone.js is not even restricted to [...]

Stable: Wireshark 1.6.5
January 10, 2012
Wireshark 1.6.5 has been released. Installers for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5.5 and above (Intel and PPC), and source code is now available

Windows Packet Capture (WinPcap)
WinPcap is the Windows version of the libpcap library; it includes a driver to support capturing packets. Wireshark uses this library to capture live network data on Windows.

Why isn't there a modern technology available for using the same codebase to produce native apps on all of the currently popular platforms - I'm talking iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch), Android, Windows, Mac and Linux?

That was my original question before I started looking, and since then I've discovered there actually are plenty of new options out there for cross platform development catering for all of the above platforms.

PhoneGap mobile development app toturials.

Shotty is an application to take pictures from your computers screen (called screenshots) or from one application only. Unlike other applications that does this Shotty provides various other features that are useful to modify the taken screenshot. With Shotty you get all what you need in one single application.

Over the course of a complete style sheet, you get to avoid a lot of repetition and you get stylesheets that are easier to maintain....One of my favorite things to do with SASS is automate vendor prefixes using mixins.

Sass generated CSS can be further optimized with csstidy (on online version is available here).

The F12 developer tools is a suite of on-demand tools that is built into every installation of Windows Internet Explorer 9. F12 tools is available anytime, on any page, and enables website developers to quickly debug JavaScript, HTML, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as well track down performance problems on a webpage or network.

You can also log messages to the Console by using console.log APIs. Instead of using window.alert() and generating countless dialogs, call console.log to output strings to the Console pane. To differentiate between messages, use different console.log APIs; for example

This release supports Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010. The following table provides links to access more information about each power tool included in this release.

Download the latest version
HTML Tidy for Windows (vers 25 mar 2009)

jqGrid is a grid component for ASP.NET & PHP based on the world's most popular and flexible jQuery grid plugin jqGrid.

DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, which will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table. Key features:

UML Business Modelling, HTTP Introduction and Debugging, TCP/IP State Transition Diagram, and a Regular Expression Quick Reference (cheat sheet).

We are using these at ghe...Create PDF documents from scratch using a highly intuitive object model. Use code, XML/XSL or a combination.

We are using these at ghe...Create and manipulate PDF documents in every possible way. A true Swiss army knife.

jQuery replaceText will replace text in specified elements. Note that only text content will be modified, leaving all tags and attributes untouched.

mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by millions of people, and thousands of organizations, to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world. Serving the Internet community for over a decade, mIRC has evolved into a powerful, reliable and fun piece of technology. You can learn about mIRC here.

NimbleText is a powerful tool that makes it easy to manipulate text and data.

Features-These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.

Polystyle Is A Source Code Formatter

Creating a new C++ project from scratch can involve a lot of tedium and overhead. The purpose of this project is to provide a template which can be easily modified to create your own C++ project with minimal effort. Key features of this template include:

Provides a simple environment for C++ game development on Android 2.1+ devices. It is in the public domain, but please consider contributing back changes to improve it.

For those working on Windows, it also includes a Visual Studio 2010 express C++ project which allows you to build and use intellisense from within visual studio, although this is optional.

User-contributed properties

Basically, snippets are pieces of text inserted into a document, but can execute shell code at run-time, contain placeholders for additional information to be added, and make simple transforms on that information. This is much more powerful than SciTE's abbreviation expansion system.

they seem to lack the main feature that keeps me using SciTE. That is the ability to hit F5 when editing a script and have the console output appear in a separate pane in the editor window. I do plenty of batch file, VBScript, JavaScript scripting and with SciTE I can hit F5 to do a quick test.

Here’s a link to his Zenburn for SciTE v1.78. SciTE users, feel free to submit enhancements and improvements!

Anyone have any experience? Good or bad! :); Nope. As long as you put any code that is dependent on the loading files inside head.ready {} then you will not face any problems with your code.

This looks really cool...
What is it? Through a fluent, extensible interface, NBuilder allows you to rapidly create test data, automatically assigning values to properties and public fields that are of type of the built in .NET data types (e.g. ints and strings). NBuilder allows you to override for properties you are interested in using lambda expressions.

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This is one of those posts that is meant to save time for myself in the future when I’ll have to figure all of this out from scratch.

I spend a lot of time in coffee shops and public places with unsecure wifi. Unsecure wifi scares the bejeesus out of me so I wanted to figure out a way to secure any traffic going through. It would also be nice to access things on my home network. It turns out there are a million different ways to do this and I found one that worked for me.

This demo illustrates the compatibility of the ASPxGridView with the MS Ajax UpdatePanel.

Description:
There is a commonly asked question as to what is the best place to perform any manipulation with a control. Under manipulations I mean the control's properties: changing, runtime binding, conditional showing/hiding and so on. Due to the unchanged Page LifeCycle, each control fires appropriate events at early stages. These events should be used for the controls initialization: Init and Load.

devexpress - Use the following links to find more information on the ASPxGridView control.

Welcome to the online demo site of the ASPxGridView and Editors Suite. This website demonstrates some of the many features and capabilities available to you when using our ASP.NET grid and data editors library. These features include

Dirty Markup is a web-based HTML Tidy interface. You can use it to harness the power of Tidy without ever leaving your web browser.

To clean your markup, paste the code (or a URL) into the textarea on the right and select “Clean”.

The SqlMonitoring tool makes it possible to monitor SQL 2000, 2005, 2008 environments and send alerts to a central database (SQL 2008). A client can be used to view the alerts en perform actions on them. This tool is a good alternative if you do not have the budget or infrastructure for tools like SCOM.

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

In our previous column on code analysis, we discussed what code analysis is and why you want to use it. We also provided a simple example of running code analysis. This column builds off the previous column, by examining all the different options for configuring code analysis in Visual Studio 2010. By making use of the configuration options, you have the ability to fine-tune the code analysis engine to perform exactly how you want it to.

Looks interesting. Uses Lua...What is bam? Bam is a fast and flexible build system. Bam uses Lua to describe the build process. It's takes its inspiration for the script files from scons. While scons focuses on being 100% correct when building, bam makes a few sacrifices to acquire fast full and incremental build times.

Pretty cool. It's geting so I no longer need to write one...Dapper is a single file you can drop in to your project that will extend your IDbConnection interface.

ODB 1.3.0 was released today.

In case you are not familiar with ODB, it is an object-relational mapping (ORM) system for C++. It allows you to persist C++ objects to a relational database without having to deal with tables, columns, or SQL, or manually writing any of the mapping code.

As usual, for the complete list of changes see the official ODB 1.3.0 announcement. But the most important new feature in this release is no doubt support for the SQLite embedded database. Below I am going to examine this in more detail.

This caught my attention and I thought, why not implement the same benchmark for ODB C++ ORM and see how it stacks up against the C# crowd?

w3c Markup Validation Service

...a refresh of the Visual Studio 2010 HTML5 Templates I created last September. With jQuery now at v1.5.1 and Modernizr at v1.7, it was time for an update.

yEd Graph Editor is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality drawings of diagrams.
Create your diagrams manually or import your external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button.

Lzz is a tool that automates many onerous C++ programming tasks. It can save you a lot of time and make coding more enjoyable. Given a sequence of declarations Lzz will generate your header and source files. For example, given the following code:

This is the Hg-Git plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Mercurial. This means you can collaborate on Git based projects from Mercurial, or use a Git server as a collaboration point for a team with developers using both Git and Mercurial.

Warning, this software is still beta.

A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.

Looks nice, but a hassle to install on Windows.
...Redmine is a flexible project management web application written using Ruby on Rails framework.

...So in the end, I switched to VirtualBox, an open source software from Oracle. It was wicked fast and easy to configure (make sure to enable IO APIC for Windows machines). Shared Folders even seemed to work better because when I created a sym link to my host OS development folder, Visual Studio didn't seem to have the issues it did on VMWare.

This is an online spreadsheet for HN readers to add an entry to advertise their freelance availability.

Decided to try this, but with hg.
...deployed a site using Git and Dropbox

I found myself searching my own blog for these three things today to set up another machine for development. Here they are so *I* can find them.

An excellent list of tools from a .Net guru...
Here are most of the contents of my C:\UTILS folder. These are all well loved and used. I wouldn't recommend them if I didn't use them constantly. Things on this list are here because I dig them. No one paid money to be on this list and no money is accepted to be on this list.

This is a very cool editor. Simple, calming...
Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.

I’ve recently started giving a series of talks on LINQ based tools. While Visual Studio offers a lot in regards to support for LINQ, there are a number of mostly free tools that come in handy both from a usability and a learning experience. I gave a brief look at some of the tools as part of Russ’s Tool Shed which should be airing on MSDN’s Channel 9 in early October. In addition, I’m premiering the full presentation at this weekend’s Tallahassee Code Camp. If you can’t make it out, feel free to try the tools on this list to see if they help you thinq LINQ. Also, let me know if I’m missing any tools that you think are worthy to be included in the list.

Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor that gives you a "split view" so you can see both your XAML and your rendered content (kind of like XamlPad but without the gigabyte of SDK). Kaxaml is a hobby and was created to be shared, so it's free! Feel free to download and try it out. If you don't like it, it cleans up nicely.

STORM is a free and open source tool for testing web services.

Somehow Visual Studio doesn't come with an option to only auto increment the build version of the AssemblyFileVersion attribute. Sure, by placing an * in the AssemblyVersion attribute and leaving the the AssemblyFileVersion out the compiler will auto generate build versions for both but this is a pain to maintain when you're releasing signed assemblies. Besides I don't feel like grabbing a calculator just to see when version 1.0.3394.25054 has been build. I needed a little more control.

If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too. Pandoc can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, textile, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write plain text, markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, PDF, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, textile, groff man pages, Emacs org-mode, EPUB ebooks, and S5 and Slidy HTML slide shows. PDF output (via LaTeX) is also supported with the included markdown2pdf wrapper script.

Brief Description: SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders.

Summary: This article introduces a new version of XML Notepad. The tool was first introduced in 1998 but has been unavailable for several years. This version leverages System.Xml and adds new features.

Project Description: XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive User Interface for browsing and editing XML documents.

Another dev's toolset.
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A fun part of new projects is getting to decide which technologies and libraries to use. For me, it's going to be...

This is how umbraco is going to handle hg branches and tags.
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One juicy opportunity as part of this switch is to bring our branching and tagging strategy into line. Anyone who has browsed the repository in the past will know that it's been tricky to intuit your way around changesets. Here's how we'll be laying things out in the new repository..

This guy seems tyo keep and up-to-date installer. Decided to use.
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The SciTE Text Editor, whilst being one of the most lightweight editors available, is also one of the best. I created my own package simply to provide a one-stop setup for SciTE with all the extras I, and probably most other people need.

anonymizer

A Lua-based Build Tool (ala Rake)

Object Oriented CSS Framework

Excellent list of web dev tools...I’ve been meaning to do a roll-up of top JavaScript, CSS & HTML development tools that I use or have been recommended to me and after having lunch with my bud Brian Wilpon today, I realized I just needed to do it. He asked me what some of the newer tools are and I think this is the best way to help him (and the community in general). It’s definitely not an all-inclusive list so if you see some that you feel I should add or remove, let me know in the comments.

WinPcap is the industry-standard tool for link-layer network access in Windows environments: it allows applications to capture and transmit network packets bypassing the protocol stack, and has additional useful features, including kernel-level packet filtering, a network statistics engine and support for remote packet capture.