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I recently found this: http://php.net/get/php_manual_en.chm/from/a/mirror.
It's a .chm file that contains all the documentation for PHP which you can normally find on their site. Handy for offline use.
I'm wondering, does anybody know of similar things for other languages. Complete offline documentation that you can use if you don't have wireless for a while.
For C#, Visual Studio gives you the option to download and install the entire online documentation as a part of the VS2008 install, so if you have Visual Studio 2008, then you have the C# offline documentation.
EDIT: if you're gonna say this and that is possible, please post hyperlinks.
This is what we have now:
PHP: http://be.php.net/get/php_manual_en.chm/from/a/mirror
Java: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp#docs
C: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/
MS SQL server: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=765433F7-0983-4D7A-B628-0A98145BCB97
Python 2.x: http://docs.python.org/download.html
Python 3.x: http://docs.python.org/py3k/download.html
Ruby: http://railsapi.com/
The Common Lisp HyperSpec: ftp://ftp.lispworks.com/pub/software_tools/reference/
The complete MSDN library: no longer available, sadly
The Visual Studio 2008 SP1 offline library: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7BBE5EDA-5062-4EBB-83C7-D3C5FF92A373&displaylang=en
Dash http://kapeli.com/dash includes offline documentation for 150+ APIs.
Most language should provide that.
Some examples:
Java: Java SE 6 docs (below on the page)
Perl: Unix versions of perl typically come with full docs as manpages and perldoc (some Linux distributions put these into extra packages); I suppose Windows versions do the same
C: the GNU libc library has downloadable docs
Python also has downloadable documentation. As a result, most operating systems which provide Python also provides a documentation package. For instance, on Debian, this is package python2.5-doc (one package per version).
Install it and you can browse the documentation offline. Very convenient for a laptop which is not always connected.
For jQuery, I recommend jQAPI - Alternative jQuery Documentation Browser, that you can find here: http://www.jqapi.com/
You can use it online as well as download it for offline use.
btw, the Visual Studio docs (MSDN) also include documentation for JScript, VBScript, HTML and CSS. Back when I programmed PERL I always installed perldoc.
Downloading the documentation is pretty much the first thing I do if I've got any serious work to do in an unfamiliar language. Just reading through the API is like mining gold!
Visual Studio comes with the C# specification, installed by default in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC#\Specifications\1033
MS SQL Server ships with a whole load of documentation know as "Books Online". Despite the name you can downlaod these from MSDN.
Ruby, Rack, Rails, and several gems can all be found at railsapi.com
Cppreference.com is great for C++ and C reference. They also have offline versions here.
For Java you can download the entire API to use offline.
Sun provides downloadable versions of the Java platform documentation.
Java SE Downloads
Scroll down the page and look for the link called Java SE 6 Documentation. It is a series of HTML files covering the entire Java SE JDK. It can be handy to have it stored locally, but because there is no search functionality, its uses are somewhat limited.
While not strictly a language you can build docs for Ruby on Rails by doing the following
rails sample_project
rake rails:freeze:gems
rake doc:rails
rake rails:unfreeze
and then use or take yourself a copy of the doc/api folder
You can also download MSDN to get documentation for VB.NET, C#, C++ and various Windows & Component APIs
Common Lisp has the hyperspec. A complete guide the language and its libraries.
Common Lisp Hyperspec
I actually mirror a portion of the PHP site for myself, just once a week, by RSync (which is quite efficient, only downloading about 1/6th of what a full download would take).
A couple of advantages of a local copy running on my own server is that the shortcuts (for example php.net/array_merge) work, and I've got the full notes as well.
for C#, I just found this offline documentation:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7BBE5EDA-5062-4EBB-83C7-D3C5FF92A373&displaylang=en
beware - large file size.
(still downloading, so hope I'm not misleading anyone here)
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I really like the idea of this BundleTransformer plugin from NuGet, and I see that they have LESS support. But ...
After weeks of trying, I cannot find any decent example of how to use it. The documentation is unclear, to say the very least. This is the closest I could find, which does not compile or work.
who-could-ask-for-more-with-less-css
Well, the simple answer is that I could ask for more.
Can someone please assist me with the simple task of creating a bundle that has .less files in it, that will run? I am completely lost.
I would suggest reading the wiki page for bundle transformer and also, as the wiki page suggests, make sure you are familiar with ASP.NET bundling and minification.
If you follow the examples of usage you should be up and running.
I know this is an older post but figured I'd chime in. The Bundle Transformer Codeplex discussion board (Feb 2015) mentions that BundleTransformer is no longer considered a modern client-side build tool and they are recommending you go with Gulp or Grunt - which both have support starting in Visual Studio 2013.3 via VSIX extensions and more baked in to VS2014. FYI -This Scott Hanselman post explains how to get up and going with Grunt and Gulp in Visual Studio. I think if you're using BundleTransformer for simple Less compilation it works fine, but doesn't allow you to do things like generate CSS Sourcemaps which make your browser's dev tools aware of the Less source files, which in my humble opinion is critical for using a CSS preprocessor - the ability to see the LESS line numbers of your source files in the styles pane.
Firstly, I saw some topics about these two but weren't my answer.
I'm looking for a good FPC(Free Pascal Compiler) IDE on GNU/Linux.
There are some IDE's like Lazarus and CodeTyphon. I need suggestion to choose one of those.
I've tried Lazarus once but all windows was separated. It looks messy and not interesting.
I would like to know what are the distinguishes between these two ?
I would like to know advantages / disadvantages each of those. Thank you
CodeTyphon is a distro of Lazarus, like Ubuntu and Debian are distros of Linux.
CodeTyphon comes with a large package of components and plugins, that otherwise you would have to google and download and install.
CodeTyphon have their own idea what are stable versions and what are not stable yet for both of FPC (compiler) and Lazarus(IDE). Whether their assessment is better or worse than upstream's Lazarus Team's, I don't know.
What about one-single-window plugin, it is work-in-progress and it doesn't seems to me it is ready for production use, no matter would you get it as part of CT or download and add it to vanilla Lazarus. However maybe it better works on Linux than on Windows, I don't know.
There were however issues with code legality in CT grande bundle. It is widely believed that Orca (if I remember the name) violates copyrights of glScene/vgScene, which also happened in early Delphi FMX releases but was fixed by EMBA later. There also were disputes in FPC forums/wiki about CodeTyphon pirating some open-source components. See answer by Peter Dunne below.
Your question is akin to asking the difference between Linux and Ubuntu. Lazarus is an IDE/component library, based on FreePascal (FPC). And CodeTyphon is a distribution of Lazarus and FPC. So CodeTyphon is just one way to install a functioning installation of Lazarus.
Lazarus uses the same floating window design as older versions of Delphi. Installing from CodeTyphon won't change that.
Myself and several friends highlighted several licensing issues with codetyphon
most of which could have been corrected by sourcing the included files from known good source and ensuring the correct license headers were included
PirateLogic refused to correct the issues which means they are using code in direct violation of the original license terms
The fact its open source code does not change the fact they are pirating the code by not including the correct license even after the issue was highlighted
I also found several instances of copyright code included which appears to be proprietary and not FOSS at all
They also changed the path & file names on some libraries so that source is no longer compatible with standard lazarus/component installs
This in my view is totally illogical
These 2 factors heavily undermine what was potentially the best FPC/Lazarus distro
Hardly professional
Lazarus can be a daunting installation process due to it's nature as a cross compiling environment. You don't just download an installer and click ok. A typical "installation" is actually a bootstrap FPC compiler doing a three-pass compilation of an "install". There are plenty of good installation scripts/methods from the official Lazarus/FPC team and in the community for a . But, understandably, the installation process is a skill in itself.
CodeTyphon is a a different/separate branch of an installer system, which is more of a utility suite/tools/third party code compilation library. If you want the simplest installation experience go with CodeTyphon. It has the nice graphical front end for managing the compiler. You can conveniently do the fancy stuff like build "cross-compilers" for almost every "target" operating system out there. It also is jam packed with hundreds of the best components/libraries pre-installed. It is a very actively maintained project and very professional. A whole lot of work is done for you.
Even if you want to be learn the low level compiler capabilities, CodeTyphon is a good place to start. It is written in FCP/Lazarus and is open source. Simply study it as "working demo app" and the other info on the compiler details. If you crash it, at least you don't have to learn to climb the hill. You get to get to start from the top and lose control on the way down. Start from scratch (and a three hour reinstallation) Hahaha
Lazarus also has a package "AnchorDock" which allows you to dock all the windows into one. Either install the anchor dock design package after installing Lazarus, or install Lazarus using the script at getlazarus.org which will do it for you.
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I am in the market for a new IDE but am confused about the overlap between some of Jetbrains' offerings. It looks like IntelliJ IDEA has plugins that allow you to do Node.js and php development.
Can IntelliJ IDEA do everything that WebStorm and PHPStorm do through plugins or do they have special features not available in IDEA? I am hoping to have a single polyglot IDE for all development.
All of the functionality of our lightweight IDEs can be found within IntelliJ IDEA (you need to install the corresponding plug-ins from the repository).
It includes support for all technologies developed for our more specific products such as Web/PhpStorm, RubyMine and PyCharm.
The specific feature missing from IntelliJ IDEA is simplified project creation ("Open Directory") used in lighter products as it is not applicable to the IDE that support such a wide range of languages and technologies. It also means that you can't create projects directly from the remote hosts in IDEA.
If you are missing any other feature that is available in lighter products, but is not available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, you are welcome to report it and we'll consider adding it.
While PHP, Python and Ruby IDEA plug-ins are built from the same source code as used in PhpStorm, PyCharm and RubyMine, product release cycles are not synchronized. It means that some features may be already available in the lighter products, but not available in IDEA plug-ins at certain periods, they are added with the plug-in and IDEA updates later.
But here's the rub, sometimes you can't or don't want to wait. For example I want to use the new support for RubyMotion which includes RubyMotion project structure support, setup of rake files, setup of configurations that are hooked to iOS Simulator etc.
RubyMine has all of these now, IDEA does not. So I would have to generate a RubyMotion project outside of IDEA, then setup an IDEA project and hook up to that source folder etc and God knows what else.
What JetBrains should do is have a licensing model that would allow me, with the purchase of IDEA to use any of other IDEs, as opposed to just relying on IDEAs plugins.
I would be willing to pay more for that i.e. say 50 bucks more for said flexibility.
The funny thing is, I was originally a RubyMine customer that upgraded to IDEA, because I did want that polyglot setup. Now I'm contemplating paying for the upgrade of RubyMine, just because I need to do RubyMotion now. Also there are other potential areas where this out of sync issue might bite me again . For example torque box workflow / deployment support.
JetBrains has good IDEs but I guess I'm a bit annoyed.
I regularly use IntelliJ, PHPStorm and WebStorm. Would love to only use IntelliJ. As pointed out by the vendor the "Open Directory" functionality not being in IntelliJ is painful.
Now for the rub part; I have tried using IntelliJ as my single IDE and have found performance to be terrible compared to the lighter weight versions. Intellisense is almost useless in IntelliJ compared to WebStorm.
IntelliJ IDEA vs WebStorm features
IntelliJ IDEA remains JetBrains' flagship product and IntelliJ IDEA provides full JavaScript support along with all other features of WebStorm via bundled or downloadable plugins. The only thing missing is the simplified project setup.
Taken from : https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/WI/WebStorm+FAQ#WebStormFAQ-IntelliJIDEAvsWebStormfeatures
Definitely a great question.
I've noted this also as a sub question of the choice for versions within IDEa
that this link may help to address...
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html
it as well potentially possesses a ground work for looking at your other IDE choices and the options they provide.
I'm thinking WebStorm is best for JavaScript and Git repo management, meaning the HTML5 CSS Cordova kinds of stacks, which is really where (I believe along with others) the future lies and energies should be focused now... but ya it depends on your needs, etc.
Anyway this tells that story too...
http://www.jetbrains.com/products.html
I currently use Programmer's Notepad for my Chrome Extension project. I like Programmer's Notepad, as it is simple to use and I don't need debugging features (Chrome has all that for me). However, I check the project into Subversion and it stores absolute paths, which will not allow other people to use it unless they use the same exact path.
I have Visual Studio 2010 at my disposal, but I haven't seen a useful way to use it. I have also heard of Aptana Studio, but I was discouraged from trying it out fully because it seemed too bloated for my needs.
What is a good IDE I can use for chrome extension development? The most important factor is good project support. Relative paths need to be stored in the project and it should keep files grouped together so I can work out of the IDE and not have to continuously open files in Windows Explorer.
Secondly good syntax highlighting and intellisense are ideal but I can live without it. Intellisense with jQuery and the built in Chrome Extension API are pluses.
Geany is a good very lightweight with project management and everything. Latest version also includes local intellisense for opened files and has very nice syntax highlighting and some other nice plugins.
Visual Studio 2010 with Resharper (to allow for the JS intellisense) works nice as well but it slightly bloated when it comes to just javascript extension development.
I would actually just recommend a lightweight editor such as Notepad++ or Vim/Emacs but it seems that your project may have grown too big for this so Geany would be my choice.
Komodo Edit is free and seems to meet all of your requirements:
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit
If you are willing to pay for it, the ActiveState (same people) Komodo IDE gets very good reviews:
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide/features
I'm looking to find something like Torry but instead of being Delphi centric, it should be Lazarus centric.
I'm aware of the Source Forge Project Code and Component Repository but I'm looking for something with more span and a bit more searching features.
There is this page in the Lazarus wiki which probably has most of Lazarus components (it includes some components not found in CCR). Its pretty well searchable. There are also the forums and the mailing list where components are announced (and usually are mentioned in the above wiki page).
Lazarus isn't as popular as Delphi or other solutions, so its not that easy to find stuff for it :-/. Although porting components from Delphi isn't a very hard process - many components available for Lazarus were originally Delphi components.
Here is a component web site :
http://lazarus-components.org
I have seen that we can create lazarus repositories, but there is poor doc about that.
Recent versions of Lazarus IDE have an Online Package Manager function.
IDE Menu: Package > Online Package Manager.
This open a window with a pretty good list of packages that that be downloaded and installed with a couple of clicks.
I use lazarus BigIDE from http://www.pilotlogic.com/sitejoom/index.php/codetyphon
full LCL from more source