Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• My hosting service disabled exec() server-wide the other day, and without exec() my installation of Gallery is mostly useless. I can't install new photos nor modify existing ones. Sectorlink doesn't really have much in the line of suggestions, but I have to wonder what

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Presto dogs

[anonymous]

Those Presto hot dogs tasted a bit odd. I always wondered about the chemistry of it all, with aluminum electrodes, house current, water and a variety of fats, additives, etc. Probably better not to consider it!

Have you looked at the Programmer's Notepad? Or the windows version of Scintilla? Or at the open source Aptana? All provide varying degrees of support for HTML. My own favorite was HomeSite, but before MS changed the DLLs, disabling the visual design aspects.

Bill Meyer

Re: Presto dogs

[jeff_duntemann]

Carl & Jerry mentioned that using galvanized nails makes the hot dogs taste like brimstone. This suggests that Frye either tried it himself, or read about that shortcoming somewhere else. If I were ever to build one, I would grind sharp points on a pair of 8-32 stainless steel screws.

Whatever editor I use has to be very WYSIWYG. Dreamweaver 3 has a very serviceable user model, but it generates non-standard code. I'll look at those, but I've already tried NVu and found it lacking.

Re: Presto dogs

[anonymous]

Not sure what you mean by WYSIWYG in this context. Aptana is an evolving open-source project, and seems to do quite well with HTML and CSS, but offers no visual design. In fact, apart from Dreamweaver, I haven't found anything but FrontPage (ugh) that offers visual design of a site in any reasonable way. HomeSite used to, but it appears from my experiments that the visual design features were killed by an update to W2K.
Thanks, MS.

Bill Meyer

Re: Presto dogs

[anonymous]

Some of the guys here at work use SourceEdit, which is free here: http://www.brixoft.net/prodinfo.asp?id=1. I didn't like it because most of what I do for work is classic ASP or VB.NET, and I like the color-coding that Visual Studio gives me too much. I believe my boss uses UltraEdit, which isn't free (ultraedit.com). I've never tried that one, but he seems to like it.

I gave up on NVu as soon as I realized it has a "feature" FrontPage used to be known for ... it will occasionally change code on you when you switch between the code view and design view screens.

Jen Rosenau

[beamjockey]

You are, I hope, aware that there is a song about cooking hot dogs with wall current?