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Is there any good alternative to ASpell? It's nice open source, but haven't been updated for a while. The performance is not too good and I am having trouble creating a custom worklist with non-alpha characters.
Started by Jon on
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I switched to aspell for....
I don't know how it compares to Hunspell.
There is also Ispell , might not be faster or better maintained, but it supports international characters .
Check out Hunspell.
It's what Firefox uses for its spellchecker.
Hunspell.
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I need to draw a big and complicated diagram in word document. I found the last version of visio to be unreliable and unusable - when I copy-paste a block it destroys the other linked content etc. Is there any good alternative to Visio?
Started by 99CPU on
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The built-in Windows Search tool will apparently not search within PHP files. I cannot find the files named *.php containing text "some_function_name" that I know are there.
"Search is complete. There are no results to display."
What's a good alternative...
Started by Zack Peterson on
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by 19 people.
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Same functionality.
Copernic Desktop Search is good.
To "Index Properties and File Contents".
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Found out that llblgen costs money which I cannot afford at the time since I am on a Non-Paid internship atm. Do you guys know of a comparable alternative to llblgen. I am trying to get a good Code generator for making sql queries.
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Presumeably if you're mentioning LLBLGen, you're a .NET user - do you have access to Visual Studio? You can always use T4 - the code generator built... .
All 100% free.
What platform? NHibernate, LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework come to mind for .NET .
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I find the xml doc comments for C# or VB.NET very hard to read. Is there a decent alternative (that still provides the benefits of documenting code for intellisense, doc generation, etc.)?
Started by Pete on
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You....
I started with the one referenced in this old post and modified from there .
Reading XML is making your eyes wobble, which it does mine) you could add a stylesheet to the xml comments file .
If readability is the problem you're trying to solve (i.e .
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I was using Iconv library on Ruby to convert encoding from UTF-8 to UTF-32, UTF-16 etc and it was quite good.
However, I do see an issue when converting from Big5 to UTF-8 -- an exception is thrown for invalid sequence...
and the problem goes away when...
Started by Jian Lin on
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by 4 people.
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My experience of Iconv has been good - I suspect its behavior may be correct.
Are different.
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Since iTunes is so dog-slow on Windows, I'm looking for a good alternative that manages podcasts well. Bonus for syncing play counts, ratings, etc.
Edit: I'm not looking for a podcast-only app, I'm looking for a music manager that does well with podcasts...
Started by Aidan Ryan on
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It can handle your music collection management....
It made me buy a Zune!
MediaMonkey rocks.
Well I really like the Zune software ...
Not only will it manage your local music, but it is very nice for finding music on the internet .
You might check out Songbird.
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Any good alternative written in C to replace Boost.Program_options? Given it's able to parse:
Short options like -h Long options like --help --input-file Parse repeated keys/options Accepts key-value pairs: --mysql=/usr/lib Parsing environmental variables...
Started by Viet on
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None of them parses environment variables of XML/INI files, but those two don't really belong with command-... .
Both the links I posted have examples.
POSIX has getopt , glibc adds getopt_long.
If you are okay with the GPL license, you want GNU getopt .
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I'm sick and tired of manually tracking my branches and merges across my repository! It's too error prone. In a world where everyone seems to get the idea of reducing duplication and automating everything, subversion branching/merging feels like it's ...
Started by Jason Citron on
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Just sometimes they commited something bad ;)
So.
Your development process?
Subversion, IMHO, is a good application of the KISS (Keep it simple, stupid-hack and got rid of it if was bad - commit when good.
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We have been using GenuineChannels in our product for the last 4 years. GenuineChannels now appears to have become unsupported and the main developer guy Dmitri has I think joined Microsoft. I have the source as part of the product but not the networking...
Started by gwyn on
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Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework....
A lot of other nice stuff there, too...
WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is the way to go - much more scalable, easily swappable to other technologies (if you need in the future), and builtin to .NET 3.0 .
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