I would have have hated to say this maybe a year back, but now I think I can: "Psst! I *hate* html, and I absolutely *loathe* css, and I also dislike the fact that I cannot (could not) do anything with an interesting language like JavaScript without having to bother with the DOM." I would wake up with nightmares assuming that I was the only fellow out there who did not care about this browser-side stuff, but now I think I may be in good company. With HTML5 round the corner, I see a lot of people coming clean. :) My understanding of css, et al, is still sketchy at best, but then after a peek into HTML5, it seems to me that very soon we may end up with toolkits over the native browser JavaScript APIs, which may be analogous to the MFC wrapper over the raw Win32 API. We could very well end up with one toolkit dominating the landcape and becoming *the toolkit* against which most apps get written. But I do know the toolkit that I will use: the one that completely abstracts away all those pesky html statements and css style specs!

Najeeb Shaikh

Hey, thanks for this! Got two pieces of useful information here: a) The Sqlite admin tool; and b) There is a free tools forum here too. :)

Najeeb Shaikh

I'll second that. Virtualbox is not just free, it's one of the best virtualizing platforms around, compared to other more expensive (paid) options around. Works beautifully in seamless mode.

Najeeb Shaikh

Something similar happened with me... was having a conversation with my wife about our kids' education and wanted to say that every kid should know how to read, write, and do arithmetic (the 3 Rs), but almost ended up saying every kid should know how to read, write and execute. :-D

Najeeb Shaikh

I can understand your excitement... we programmers don't really grow up, yes? Would hate to be in any other profession. ~Najeeb www.codeminima.com, www.mnemonicfs.org

Najeeb Shaikh

Tyron Harford wrote:

- (A) Leave it on my computer, play around when bored type thing. - (B) Delete it. Forgot about the whole thing.

Both options are essentially the same... what good is a program if it is lying around on your PC?

Tyron Harford wrote:

- (C) Sell it (ripping open source parts out).

I think it would be a tough sell; Think, not twice, but many times before taking this route... can you afford to keep a dedicated sales and support team for this?

Tyron Harford wrote:

- (D) Open source it. Put on CodePlex.

Since you have put in so much time into it, why not let others benefit from it? IMHO, open sourcing it may well make sense in your case.

Tyron Harford wrote:

I'm worried about someone taking the project, rebranding it and calling it their own

I would suggest that you consider releasing it under the GPL license. The GPL license actually makes it difficult to copy someone's code and get away with it. And software developers tend to have a strong sense of justice: if someone does fork it out, re-brands it, and then tries to sell it, it may not have many takers. I would even venture to say that GPL may actually be the best way to go if you want to protect your program. Let it go and watch it come back to you! Regards, ~Najeeb Shaikh (www.mnemonicfs.org, www.codeminima.com)

Najeeb Shaikh

Thanks for this! Looking into it.

Najeeb Shaikh

I think this should be interesting. You may want to know why they call it the "minimal" code site.

Najeeb Shaikh

Sorry about the delay in replying... a very long weekend here in India. BTW, found something [here]. Seems to be worth looking into.

Najeeb Shaikh

Yeah, sure, thanks for the information. :) However there may be multiple deployment scenarios that I do not want to get into here, as also obfuscation. Suffice it to say that I'm just looking for a basic file system that I can link to. Any help here would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. N

Najeeb Shaikh

modified on Friday, September 25, 2009 2:26 AM

Hello, Platform: DotNet with C#. I was wondering if there is an open source library that my application can link with, which would allow me to have my own encrypted file system and which would appear as a single file within the host file system? (Any license will do, including GPL.) My application needs to save a large number of files that should not be "peekable" by any of the IT admins. I checked up on Fuse, however, I am looking specifically for a DotNet option. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, N

Najeeb Shaikh

I would recommend "Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckel; it's the kind of book that gives you not just an understanding of C++ syntax, but also a good grounding in thinking in OO style. In fact, you can download it for free from here. Stroustrup's TCPPPL may be a bit heavy for a beginner. However, once you have a solid understanding of the basics, you can go back to it as a reference book.

Najeeb Shaikh

modified on Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:18 AM

Hello Friends, I was wondering if there any good sites that offer online training videos & tutorials for languages like PHP. If anybody has any knowledge about this, please do let me know. Thanks.

Omar Shaikh

Hi Brad Cake seems to be very promising... Thanks very much for this!

Najeeb Shaikh

modified on Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:21 AM

Hi, I am in charge of getting an enterprise web-based application off the ground; we'll be starting off with the development soon, however, coming from a non-PHP background, I am unable to decide which PHP framework to use (google hasn't helped either since it throws up a zillion frameworks each of which claims to be the best). I need to have some objective information on this. The web application in question is an e-Commerce app, where we will be having only our customers log in. Thus we don't expect the traffic to be too heavy. It's completely database driven (we're using MySQL), and there will be multiple kinds of users at the site, like the app admin, the account admin/s, the account user/s, and so on, and will naturally involve some amount of security aspects to be applied to it (e.g., which modules are available to which user: something like RBAC, albeit a home-grown one). We also plan to use Ajax in the later stages. I would have preferred a Java-based framework (like Struts) for something of this sort, however, the management has already taken the decision to go ahead with PHP, since we need to have at least a basic version out asap, so opting out of PHP is non-negotiable for me. All comments will be gratefully accepted and thanks for taking the time to read this!

Najeeb Shaikh

modified on Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:20 AM

I would recommend ofbiz; it's an Apache project. Check out this link: http://ofbiz.apache.org/

Najeeb Shaikh

modified on Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:22 AM