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I have a documentation set that I need to deliver to a variety of users. It is currently in HTML with a number of attachments with a total size of around 180MB. I have the following requirements:
It only needs to be viewable on windows.
The user must not need to install additional software prior to viewing the documentation over and above what is normally on the machine (MS Office, browser etc)
The entire set needs to be searchable (preferably including MS Office attachments)
(desirable) It needs to be distributable as a single file (.exe OK)
(desirable) It needs a compatible authoring tool
Any ideas on what would be a good way to do this?
Way out of my area of expertise, and it may not work with the office files, but Microsoft Compiled HTML Help looks promising.
One tool that we are considering to do this is TiddlyWiki which allows inline editing of the source and can be extended with plugins to look more like a traditional website and to provide better support for multi user editing.
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I am trying to make an email layout cross compatible with all clients, but is getting slowed down because I have to use Outlook everytime I make changes. Actually it seems like the only method is to use litmus, so what happens is whenever I make changes to my code, I send a test email to my litmus, then only from there I can check the cross compatibility.
Is there a software/tool I can use to see the layout real time as how I code?
Thanks!
If you have Litmus, use Litmus Builder! You can code in one half of the screen and get updated previews of any client in the right every time you save. Worth the $$$ if you work on email regularly.
Another way is to use Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook uses a similar (if not same) rendering engine as Microsoft Word.
If you have a compiled HTML file of the email and have Microsoft Word installed on your computer, you can right-click the HTML file and Open With -> Microsoft Word to open the email file in Word. What you see should be very similar to Outlook.
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I am creating a custom task in SAS Studio 3.5. I want to design a simple user interface so that users can select options and input parameters.
When SAS Studio opens, there is a code and log window, when the task is opened there are then a few extra tabs at the top.
I would like to know if
A) the log and code window can be deselected by default
B) if, when the task is opened, it displays only the user interface (form) to fill in.
I basically want as few things for the user to click on as possible.
The best way to deliver a modern UI is to use HTML5. This is waay easier than using SAS/AF, more supportable (plenty of web resource available in the market), scalable, requires no client install (virtually all clients have browsers!), and you can make use of the '000s of free libraries available (jQuery, Boostrap, HandsOnTable etc).
I have written a simple guide for building web applications with SAS:
http://rawsas.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/building-web-apps-with-sas.html
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We're currently scouting for a good version control software with the following criterias:
File locking.
Supports binary files.
With web-based UI for check-in, check-out and other features.
With user security and management.
We'll be using this for a project that is already live. Basically we'll store all the source objects here and use these as source files when additional requirements are necessary.
Appreciate any suggestion.
Thanks.
Edit:
Forgot to mention that we are currently using Serena's PVCS VM. However we are trying to look for other good alternatives.
Also, I'd like to add that we also prefer check-out and revision numbering per file.
Thanks.
Try JIRA with FishEye. I've found it to be really useful for most aspects of on-going projects.
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
https://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/overview
Because locking is mandatory for your case, you haven't choice for backend-SCM - it can be only Subversion.
Suggestion of JIRA as issue-tracker and FishEye as web-frontend is still applicable
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In our company we need a project handler so we decided to write our own.
We use CMake and bazaar and we still don't know if to store the informations of the
projects in XML format or in a database.
We are locked at this point: we would like to use as less languages/tools as possible
but we cannot find a way to interface CMake with XML files or databases.
An idea could be Python but it would be really annoying to use a new language just for an interface. We've seen that there's a Python framework (Waf) but we have already used CMake for all our projects and it would take a lot of time to convert all.
We work with Ubuntu and Windows.
Suggestions ?
thanks in advance
Rather than make your own tool, use an off-the-shelf product like something from the Jira suite, or BuildMaster. Many of these have great integration with most build software and don't require you to write and maintain your own stack just to manage projects.
Focus your developer time on solving your business problems, not on reinventing the wheel. Their time is MUCH more valuable than the cost of using a ready-made solution.
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We have been asked to provide a data reporting solution. The followng are the requirements:
i. The client has a lot of data which is generated everyday as an outcome of the tests they run. These tests are run at several sites and they get automatically backed up into a central server.
ii. They already have perl scripts which post process them and generates excel based reports.
iii. They need a web based interface for comparing those reports and they need to mark and track issues which might be present in those data.
I am confused if we should build our own tool for this or we should go for already exiting tool(any suggestions?). Can you please provide supportive arguments for the decision that you would suggest?
You need to narrow down your requirements (what kind of data needs to be compared, and in which format?). Then check if there is already a software available (commercial or free) that fulfills your needs. Based on that, decide if its better (i.e. cheaper) to implement the functionality yourself, or use the other software.
Don't reinvent the wheel.
There are quite a few tools out there that specialise in this sort of thing, my gut feeling is that you can find something ready made that does what you need.
As a side note, that tool may also be a better solution for creating those excel reports than the perl scripts.