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I am working on designing and building a desktop application. I am thinking about using eclipse or netbeans for the base of this application. However, I have never built on either of these platforms. I am personally leaning to using netbeans because it seams like that platform is an easer learning curve. But, I wanted to ask people that have actually build on these platforms before which one is easier to use? My personal definition of easer is as follows: Easy to get started with Consistent and logical API Good documentation Easy to build and deploy Thanks very much, Josh I can't say enough

The Django Book has a neat content publishing template. Anyone knows if it's available for public use? Alternatively, what Django sources would you recommend as an easy to use, out of the box CMS? According to this post on the mailing list, the source hasn't been released, and it doesn't look like it will be. I'd be interested in seeing the code as well. All we know is that it uses the YUI / extjs comment system. Based on that mailing list post it sounds like the code the Django site uses is from a BSD licensed version of the code, so perhaps you could use that javascript as a starting point.

So I'm trying voice recognition for C#, I'm using System.Speech.Recognition, and, I was searching around on the internet, trying out several pieces of code for some basic speech recognition, the best one I could find was this: using System; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Speech.Recognition; namespace SpeechRecognition { public partial class MainForm : Form { SpeechRecognitionEngine recognitionEngine; public MainForm() { InitializeComponent(); Initialize(); } private void Initialize() { recognitionEngine = new SpeechRecognitionEngine(); recognitionEngine

Is there a #define in C# that allows me to know, at compile time, if I'm compiling for x86 (Win32) or x64 (Win64)? By default there is no way to do this. The reason is that C# code is not designed to target a particular platform as it runs on the CLR. It is possible to hand roll this though. You can use the project configuration settings in Visual Studio to define your own constants. Or if you want it a little more streamline you can edit the .csproj yourself and hand roll some more configurations which have various defines. For instance you can make your project file look like the following.

There are a couple of topics on Stack Overflow and posts on the web addressing this question: what is the difference between a framework and a platform What is the difference between framework, platform and technology? What's the different between Framework and Platform? Is nodejs both framework and platform? How about V8? However, none of them really help me understand the actual differences between a framework and a platform as I conceive of them. Examples of what I mean by: Framework: Rails, Django or Laravel. Platform: Node.JS or Meteor What exactly sets apart a framework from a platform

Why is int typically 32 bit on 64 bit compilers? When I was starting programming, I've been taught int is typically the same width as the underlying architecture. And I agree that this also makes sense, I find it logical for a unspecified width integer to be as wide as the underlying platform (unless we are talking 8 or 16 bit machines, where such a small range for int will be barely applicable). Later on I learned int is typically 32 bit on most 64 bit platforms. So I wonder what is the reason for this. For storing data I would prefer an explicitly specified width of the data type, so this