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I'm currently using GVIM for C development but recently I've discovered that a lot of developers started using Eclipse or Netbeans. There are also a lot more sophisticated themes available for Eclipse (http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/) than I've seen on www.vim.org in ages.
What's the main incentive for using Eclipse/Netbeans despite their lack for efficient key bindings? Which of the two is better suited for C development? In which aspects are they superior to GVIM, in which ones inferior?
Gvim is an editor, and that's all. And yes, you could customize gvim to do a lot of things, but it is still an editor. Gvim is the best editor in the world and that's all about gvim.
Eclipse and Netbeans are IDE. Integrated development environment. So thay are much more than an editor, although they are not so good as an editor as gvim. But you could do other things using an ide besides just text editing. For example, debugging, packaging, deploying, visual designing..etc. You couldn't easily do all of these using gvim. That's why we need an ide.
I sugguest eclipse, although for the last year I have been using Netbeans most of the time. The reason is: Netbeans now belongs to Oracle, and Oracle doesn't care about open source. What Oracle care about is just making more money. For example, I used netbeans to write python programs, but now in version 7 of netbeans, python development support has been removed from netbeans. (and also ruby). Oracle guys said, they had to focus on JDK 7 support, so they have to abandon the support for python and ruby and other not important things. I feel so disappointed. And afterward I turned to gvim.(maybe later I will turn to eclipse, who knows)
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I want to build (hire someone to build) a program for windows. This program has to save some data of a single web page like name of the website, product name and product price on a command (under right-click or keyboard shortcuts) in a local database. Which programming language can I chose best? The amount of (affordable) programmers and the possibility to add some extra functionalities in the future is also important.
I found for example that python, Java, Ruby and XPath are used for this job.
Thank You.
Java, python and ruby are all good choices. Xpath is not a programming language, it's a query specification that allows you to extract the data you want from xml or html. No matter which language you choose you will need to also use xpath (all 3 have xpath libraries available).
Python seems to be the most popular but the future of it's libraries
is also the most uncertain (nobody has bothered to port mechanize to
python3 yet, beautiful soup has died and then come back).
Java's biggest strength may be that it's already installed on most
windows machines, but it's also the only one of the three that is not
a scripting language and therefore development time will likely be
longer.
Ruby is a good choice with excellent scraping libs and plenty of
programmers using it.
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I am on the look out for a good software for browsing kernel level code written in C. I am currently using source navigator. Are there any better suggestions?
EDIT: I work on systems with both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu), so it should run on at least one of them, but Linux software is preferable.
This might not be what you're shooting for; it's less interactive than a dedicated tool, but I've found LXR to be very useful for providing a web interface front-end for browsing large source repositories. In each file, every symbol is linked to its original definition, so it's easy to dial down to exactly what you're looking for.
It was originally designed for indexing the Linux kernel source, and still does so here, (though I must say I'm not jazzed about the new AJAX interface...)
It can be run on any code base, though; not limited to the Linux kernel. And the web interface makes it easy to access from anywhere and from any system.
Visual Slick Edit does the trick for me.
Good tagging for big code bases, building, macros,light ui and support for many languages.
Unfortunately costs some $.
The reason I mostly wanted to switch from source navigator was that the project had closed down and the new project (Source navigator NG)seemed to be defunct(because the website etc. were down). But today, I checked and they had releases upto 2010. So they are probably still up and running.
Check it out, it has a good GUI and searching is easier than in cscope.
I use doxygen when I receive a big lump of code that I need to do a quick review on. You can use a special syntax in your source to make the doxygen output nice, but it does a decent job without.
netbeans works perfect for me
ctrl+click on any symbol will take you to the definition
then alt+left
very convenient for source code navigation
it's also cross platform
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Anyone have recommendations for a good C editor for Windows? Any improvement over the Emacs over ssh setup I have right now would be appreciated.
Microsoft Visual C++ is a great IDE.
If you want something minimalistic, Notepad++ will give you syntax highlighting but stay out of your way.
Microsoft Visual C++ (the Express editions are free and very usable) is one of the best IDEs out there, especially on Windows.
I should start by pointing out that virtually any question about editor preferences pretty much qualifies to be closed as being subjective and argumentative. I don't believe for a moment that you're trying to be argumentative, but programmers do get attached to their editors...
If you like Emacs, and it's only the ssh connection that bothers you, then you can get various ports of emacs to Windows.
If you prefer vi and company, you can get vim for Windows.
If you like the normal Windows conventions for editors, Microsoft does a pretty lousy job of imitating it in the latest versions of Visual Studio (lousy compared to older versions at any rate). As compensation for its poor editing, it does have a really nice debugger though.
Another that works quite nicely is Zeus. It's purely an editor, not an IDE (e.g., no built in debugger) but it works well and provides keyboard emulation for everything from Emacs to Wordstar.
If you just want a nice text editor, jEdit is a very good one.
If you want a straight text editor that's super powerful, I would give e a shot. It's based on the well-loved TextMate for OS X, and on top of really intelligent sytax highlighting/indenting/whatnot, it's got a pretty powerful suite of macros.
Source Insight is fantastic for showing you code path execution. The color coding is a nice touch and font types and sizes change as well. Many engineers I worked with swore by it.
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Today I've encountered a very good book : UNIX to Linux® Porting: A Comprehensive Reference
By Alfredo Mendoza, Chakarat Skawratananond, Artis Walker
This reminded me of the thing I always wanted to know. "Porting Linux apps to Windows". I mean porting native Linux apps to native Windows with no platforms involved.
If I can find any good book which explains this topic. I've lot of amazing linux command line tools in mind which needs a windows port.
Please point me to relevant articles/tutorials/books.
PS: please don't tell me to use linux emulation platforms like Cygwin.
Well, MinGW is possibly an API you're looking for, if you don't want to use emulation platforms. It provides compatibility between Unix and Win32 apps, and implements some of the win32 API. I'm using it myself for compiling the ns-3 simulator which is designed to run on *nix systems and Cygwin. You still need precompiler statements in there to access certain Win32 features where needed, or to modify macro / function names for cross-compatability. For instance, Sleep(..) exists but sleep(..) doesn't. There is also no usleep(..). I think this API just makes life easier for the application porter without any downsides.
MSYS & MinGW are two things that are required for porting apps from Linux to Windows.
Alternative way is to use Cygwin. But I don't consider it as 100% porting because it adds dependencies of Cygwin.
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I am referring to a truly visual environment, and not something that claims to be visual but requires mountains of hand-coded script, or a code generator that farts out a Web site and leaves you to start editing in Visual Studio. Are there any truly visual Web dev platforms out there?
You might try FrontPage or something, but you would probably be better served becoming more comfortable with the code, or hiring a web developer to do it for you.
Clarion products from Softvelocity are great round trip code generators. They have tools for ASP, PHP, and ASP.NET. I have only used their win32 tools with great results. Their tools are a bit pricey but well worth them in the long run.
You might try an online forms-building service, such as Wufoo.
You might want to try something like Microsoft Expression Studio which for its capabilities seems to also be somewhat lightweight. I have the Web 2 edition installed and it works rather well.
As Servio said above (can't Vote Up or Comment yet), but with some more info.
Clarion 6 + Nettalk provides template-driven rapid application development. You can create browse/form web systems very quickly.
I'm the Clarion Evangelist (Clarion Folk), so take this with a grain of salt.
Have just realised there are no decent videos up showing Clarion 6 + Nettalk. Will remedy that shortly.
Cheers