There are thousands of different web editors available for you to use on your own computer to create your web pages. The following is a small selection (including some that are free downloads) and most of these are available for both Windows and Mac (and in some cases Linux as well).
Having finally found time over the last couple of weeks to closely examine a lot of the software scripts that I have downloaded from various sources (giveaways etc) over the past year or so and having deleted the 80% of the scripts that are either garbage or which don’t contain any files that identify what the script is for (presumably the site i downloaded it from said but that isn’t much use now), I finally have a dozen or so scripts left that actually look like they are worth making available in the member’s Area. The scripts do of course come with resale rights allowing me to make them available like this and in most cases also allow me to pass on those resale rights.
I will be uploading most of these scripts over the next few weeks so you may want to consider visiting the member’s area soon to see what scripts I have managed to find that are actually useful.
One topic I haven’t added to in quite a while is the one on C++ programming. In this article I discuss how to start up a second program from within a C++ program. There are two ways of doing this depending on how you want the two programs to interact.
Being able to shut down a program that has locked itself up and is using resources without achieving anything is essential on any operating system. One operating system where the option allowing you to do this is hidden away where it is not so easy to find is OS/2. In fact with OS/2 you need to first turn the kill feature on so that you will be able to use it when you need it.
One of the big benefits to Object Oriented Programming is being able to define classes that can be reused from one project in another. A class library takes this even further by providing a prewritten set of classes that can be used in all your projects.
For anyone using db2 databases, there will be occasions where you need to perform general processing from the command line. Here is a list of all the db2 Commands available for you to use.
Unless you are a professional web developer and designer all rolled into one, there will be occasions where you will want someone else to do some work on your site for you. In some cases you may be able to get them to do the work for you, send you the files, and upload them yourself. Other times, particularly if you have little knowledge of how the web works you will need to give them access to upload the files for you. You wont want to give them access to everything in your hosting account.
The solution to this is to set up an FTP account for them on your hosting that gives them access only to the folder that they need access to in order to upload the files. This doesn’t negate the need to make sure you give the job to someone you can trust but it does help limit the damage they can do if it turns out that they made a mistake. Besides which any legitimate developer or designer will not want access to any more than is necessary to do the job. If something breaks in an area they don’t have access to then there isn’t even a possibility that they could be considered responsible.
The new version of the phpBB forum has been a long time coming but was finally released just a couple of days ago. I decided to update the one forum that I still have set up (my Railway Community forum) to use the new version.
So far I have seen several things I was impressed with and a couple of things that disappointed me. Just the range of options in the admin function of the new forum is amazing. I haven’t even had time to look through it all yet but there are now about eight or so tabs across the top and a couple of those that I did look in have about as many options each as the entire phpBB2 had in its entirety.
A couple of the things I found disappointing so far. Firstly the site description at the top of the forum no longer allows HTML code in it - only plain text - requiring that I patch one of the files right from the start in order to maintain the link I had there. A second problem was the somewhat ugly colour scheme that the forum presents by default and the lack of ease of identifying replacement phpBB3 themes (every theme I found appeared to be for phpBB2 even though I specified 3 in my search criteria). I managed to fix that by manually editing two images and the theme stylesheet myself to replace the dark blue colour with a lighter blue. Finally trhe search option required a reindex of the web pages and that gave errors when I tried to run it.
Overall not too bad for a new release and time will tell how much further changes I will need to make. Now all I need is some more members on that forum to make it worth having it there.
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