Freitag, Oktober 14, 2005
CodeSmith, CSS, VbScript Reference
Ah, finally released it and threw it over the wall. Three completely unrelated notes before jumping into weekend:
To try: Code generation
with CodeSmith
I've read
soooooo
often
in
so
many
posts,
that CodeSmith is a great tool. It started out free but has gone
commercial. But when I looked at the website last time it seemed the free
version was gone. Boy I must have been blind: there is still free version of
CodeSmith: 2.6. I'll try it out as soon as I see an opportunity.
To try: Really using CSS in Html
Mentally I'm still stuck with the tables
paradigm. But I just read a very nice presentation why to drop tables
and go CSS. Well, somewhen in the remote future I'll follow and really use
<div> myself.
To find or write: Nice
VbScript Reference
VbScript is quite nice actually
for writing scripts running locally like batch files. WSH is built into Windows and can do
almost everything. The syntax is ugly - but well, perl's syntax is ugly too and i
liked perl. SciTe supports
VbScript syntax highlighting so I have an editor (always looking for an
improvement though).
But what I'm massively missing is a nice VbScript [pocket] [quick] reference like the great Rex Swains's HTMLified Perl 5 Reference Guide. Everyone is pointing to the msdn, which isn't that great for learning the language and solving problems, really. Everything is written somewhere but you'll hardly ever find it until you know the solution yourself. There are some books and even reference html pages to buy. But I haven't found an equivalent to Swain's Reference yet. Especially annoying is how the information is spread over several places since you are not using VbScript itself e.g. to copy files but Scripting.FileSystemObject.
Seems like I'll have to compile stuff myself. Just started ripping off html code from these places and putting them into a single HTML page:
- VBScript Reference from Technetex (spread on several pages, describes language basics and functions quite well)
- Scripts Collection from ActiveXperts (very well hierarchically organized examples for e.g. file operations and interfacing with Windows in almost every imaginable way)