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I have been using nvALT © Brett Terpstra 2010 which has the Markdown preview option for all the notes.
Is there any application on Windows end which has similar preview functionality. I understand that lot converters available but for the ease of use sake I am looking for an application with the similar preview option.
I created a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows called MarkdownPad (http://markdownpad.com), and it supports full live HTML preview:
MarkdownPad is lightweight (only 1.5 MB, not including the .NET 4 Framework), and offers several great features:
Everything is customizable. Fonts, colors, sizes, and even the CSS stylesheet of the rendered HTML. The default CSS is beautiful and minimal, and will make your HTML documents look great.
Easy HTML export. You can export the full document as HTML, or just selected text.
Distraction-free Mode. This full-screen mode turns your whole monitor into a blank canvas for you to get some serious work done.
Frequent updates. I'm always improving MarkdownPad, and love hearing feedback from users.
Built natively for Windows. MarkdownPad was built from the ground up exclusively for Windows. It uses the latest Microsoft .NET 4 and Windows Presentation 4 Frameworks (translation: it's all kinds of shiny on the inside).
And I even wrote this post in MarkdownPad :)
I use MarkPad. It's free. It's open source. It looks great. And, it's written in WPF (which I love).
If you use Visual Studio, the Markdown Mode extension is pretty handy for both Markdown syntax highlighting as well as displaying a live preview.
ResophNotes supports Markdown with preview.
ReText is a Python app that supports Markdown Preview, but Windows doesn't appear to be the main target platform. I got it to work in Windows, but I had to download the icons separately and copy then into one of the app directories in order to get it to work properly.
WriteMonkey also has Markdown support.
I've written a editor called Markdown Editor.
You can read more about it at http://mike-ward.net/markdownedit.
MarkdownPad does not support images.
EDIT: that should read that it did not support local images. But as of the latest version it does!
I can now fully recommend it. It is easily the best Markdown editor, and the developer is a pretty good guy too.
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On the desktop, I can use a text editor with the ruby interpreter to run everything, but there isn't an interpreter available for Chromebook. Is there any online software/program/webapp that would let me run Ruby code or emulate it? Kind of like Codeacademy where you put your stuff into the one section and it displays the results in another 'console' section.
I found something called OpenShift, and I'm wondering if it would let me upload a .rb file and have it run or something so I can see what I'm making.
Install linux with Crouton and you can run/install libs etc as you need to
Just found another way...run Servers Ultimate from your Android phone or tablet and access through the hotpoint wifi
Here are some web IDEs that support Ruby.
Cloud9 IDE
Cloud IDE
Koding.com
Codeanywhere
There's also a Chrome extension called SourceKit, which is a bit like TextMate, but saves files directly on Dropbox. However, that alone will not be enough to actually run the code...
One great online code editor to keep in mind is Github. You can create and edit files right in the browser. You could then sign up for a free Heroku account or the free tier of Amazon EC2. Heroku can pull directly from your Github project. EC2 can give you a complete environment to work in, though you'll have to set it up yourself just like you would on your own machine.
Yes there is, Try here tutorialspoint.
Click Try it
Nitrous has a powerful chrome application with native keyboard shortcuts for the IDE, and a number of popular starter templates, including ruby. The first container is 100% free, you can check out the chrome application here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitrous-pro/efdcneeepllhjlbejkfnaolelbpdacai
A friend of mine is a Chromebook user / software engineer and I'm thinking of following him.
He knows VIM and does all of his development on a linux instance that costs $10/mo at linode.com. I think the Chromebook paradigm is that you keep your activities inside of Chrome.
You can lose a lot of time keeping a development environment on your laptop, regardless of its OS.
Meanwhile the VPS can be used from anywhere, even when your laptop dies or you forgot your power cable at home.
If you're new to software development then I bet Cloud9 is a better place to start, even though I haven't tried it yet.
It's also very easy to install linux on a Chromebook these days. See, for example, the Arch wiki explaining the process:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices
First install anaconda.
Then conda install -c ruby-lang ruby
Source: https://anaconda.org/ruby-lang/ruby
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I am trying to use Advanced Installer as an application installer and auto-updater. Most of the resources is available on Advanced Installer website only.
Have any one used it before? I would like to hear more about bugs / stability issues if there are, especially auto-update feature
Regarding the bug/stability issues, you can see from the release history the frequency on auto-updater bug fixes (six this year - four in v9.2 and one each in v9.1.1, v9.0.1 and v9.0).
What I've noticed is that occurring issues are promptly solved.
I posted earlier the following:
I have used the free version of Advanced Installer, including its auto-update feature, and I have not experienced any problems with it.
Please note that I was talking about the ability of Advanced Installer MSI scripts to automatically remove older files when upgrading to a newer version of a program. I was not talking about the ability of the application to check for an update automatically. That's probably not in the free feature-set.
I have used advanced Installer It is really good.I would recommend to use it if you are developing a msi setup file for web applications.It is even integrated
with several other tools used for developing such as wix,inno setuo etc
I have not used Advanced Installer, however, just wanted to refer InstallJammer which is a multiplatform installer http://www.installjammer.com/, which I have been using to create application installer and easy to use and configure.
I am using the Advanced Installer daily for my work . I can say that their manuals are not helpful enough, especially for people who do not have any experience with those tools
. However if you pay for support , they can help you almost immediately .
For sure there are some limits about this tools especially if you want your build to be MSI the UI will not respond as well as the exe - but i know they are trying to fix this issue .
If you learn how to use it FOR sure you are going to like it.
The nice part about advanced installer is that they collect analytics (you have to pay for this feature ) and they can show you how many downloads per day , or how many users chose option 1 rather than option 2.
Or you can send those statistics to your webserver and with POST can manipulate however you want - which is free!
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Is there any gui builder available for titanium desktop/mobile applications?
I have been using javascript to write that buttons/labels code.
Is there any drag and drop facility available in titanium?
Checkout ForgedUI http://www.forgedui.com/ ForgedUI is a Drag and Drop UI builder for Titanium.
It costs $99, but you can test it out for free (you only can save 10 times). Here is the link in the Titanium Marketplace.
I use codiqa.com and its awesome.. Probably the best till date. I am looking for something better than this... and good if that's free ! :-)
BTW, I found a tool called Visual UI:
http://visual-ui.com/
It is a paid eclipse plugin, but it has a free trial unlike ForgeUI. It works only with Alloy AFAIK. Alloy is the xml gui creation api in Titanium 3.0.
I haven't investigated thoroughly, so if someone has used this, please comment.
From what I see there is no syncing between xml and the gui perspective, but again don't take my word for it - my experience is far too limited.
It costs $20/yr which is less than ForgeUI.
I have gone through with many Ui thing i found this interesting http://visual-ui.com/
VisualUI for Titanium Studio is a plugin that allows WYSIWYG creation of user interfaces for the Titanium Appcelerator platform using drag and drop with an internal editor and external designers using the target device simulators.
Works as a pluging on all platforms supported by Titanium Studio. Native Alloy development or standard Appcelerator SDK supported.
Yes there is one drag and drop tool... TUB Titanium UI Builder http://titaniumui.com
its cool.
Check out TiSmithy, it is easy to use and in the Mac App Store.
The way it works is very simple. You add the elements you would like into your layout, then edit the attributes and finally hit "generate code". It will output both alloy and classic code that's ready to use.
The only thing you'll need to change is the image paths to reference the folder locations within your project itself.
In the latest version Fluid elements were added. These appear on all screens, while the fixed elements appear only on the screen you add them. There's a trial on the site if you want to see how it works.
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I would like to have a windows API reference document available offline. MSDN is fine, but I also need this kind of information when I don't have access to internet.
pdf, chm, help (for emacs) would be fine.
Surely I am not the first person to want that, but I can't find anything. Could someone please point to a place to find that?
I saw the reference was maybe available in the SDK, but installing it takes ~200 MB, and I only want the documentation.
Just the Win32 API, but it's a thing of beauty: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32-help-chm/files/
Edit: Dead link replaced with alternate download.
Although it is now 17 years old, the Win32.hlp file from Microsoft is
still a useful reference for those, like me, still programming using
the "flat" Windows API. It still covers 99% of what I need and is much
more convenient and faster to use than the current MSDN and Windows
SDK documentation because it is much smaller. It is a file that is
possible to add to the help menu of your IDE or favorite editor and
call up instantly, even offline.
Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015 Help Downloader
Tool for downloading the Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015 help packages for offline use
Official VS2012Documentation.iso & VS2013Documentation.iso
Official MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 ISO
Here's a blog post explaining how you could install it. You can also only take a subset of it. You can also download the library it from here.
In Visual Studio, "Help > Manage Help Settings" you can download the contents to disk. Then you can press F1 to view them.
This feature is even available in Visual Studio Express. You can start the help server manually at %PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Help Viewer\v1.0
Installing the Windows SDK and the .NET 4 help contents took ~700MB for me. There's probably no way around it.
(Windows SDKs used to contain the documentation but it seems like they've stripped it out in v7.1)
You can even do a search offline in the Help, though from my experience the relevant rate is worse than Google.
Edit: The "Microsoft Help System" is also available in the SDK so you don't need to install Visual Studio to use it
Package This! is a good tool to download and compile MSDN docs as CHM.
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I'm planning a client-server product for a tiny, low-volume, high-cost vertical market. One of the components of the product will be a desktop application, simple to moderate in complexity, for data entry and uploading to a central server from remote PCs and/or Macs via SOAP. The server is a Java web app.
Customers will be choosing their platform (Windows or Mac) based on what the client app runs on, so my options are wide-open here. However, I will be developing on a Mac and have a strong allergy to MS-specific technologies (sorry). The app will not need to run on any non-desktop-computer devices and I have total freedom to say it will support X but not Y or Z without any negative consequences (quite the luxury, to be sure).
I have a lot of experience in server-side development but very little in desktop GUI stuff, and am evaluating my options on the client - basically what do I want to commit to learning over the next 6+ months. I have server-side Java experience as well as a brief dabble in iPhone development, which went OK.
Overall I'm looking for:
Ease of learning & development
IDE support
Healthy surrounding ecosystem (libraries, tools, help, etc.)
Quality documentation
My options as I see them, in rough order of how I'm currently mentally ranking them:
Java Swing
Cocoa
Java SWT
JavaFX
Adobe AIR
XULRunner
Am I leaving anything out?
If your application has to support both Windows and Macs, I would suggest you avoid using languages which need compilation. In that case, Java, Python, and CS4 will be your candidates. Personally, I would go for Java Swing since it's proven to work on a number of platforms (not flawlessly tho') without the need of extra libraries. Some people complain about Swing, but my experience with it isn't that terrible. Well, maybe it was because I don't use it for huge and complex interfaces. If you choose to go with Swing, try to see if you can hand-code the interface yourself, it isn't that terrible, but it does have a learning curve. Good luck!
If you are an experienced web developer, you can try Electron, which allows you to develop desktop apps using HTML, CSS and JS. Electron apps are cross-platform and will run on Windows, Mac and Linux.