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What do you use to capture webpages, diagram/pictures and code snippets for later reference?
Evernote http://www.evernote.com and delicious http://www.delicious.com
Evernote
Notepad2's clipboard feature (Notepad2.exe /c as a link in Launchy)
Windows Clippings or PrintKey
Firefox extension Page Saver
Delicious
Microsoft OneNote.
I just have an emacs instance running on my home machine, under screen. Whereever I am (and have network) I can connect to it remotely. I stick all useful urls, birthday present ideas, future dates, code snippets, ideas for docs etcetc in there.
I rarely have doodles/diagrams I need to capture, I tend to draw them in ascii in my file if needed.
I must admit I'm a bit stuck if I have no network/wifi somewhere, but that's rarely the case.
I find google notebook is very good for drive by code snippeting and google bookmarks especially as when used with the google toolbar, for web pages.
The benefit of these tools are that they are available from any pc on the web, though a good use of semantic organisation using labels is recommended.
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The combination of OneNote with a tablet PC is awesome! I was a bit of a skeptic at first. I used the trial version and then forgot about it. A year later I had an unruly collection of files, project related emails, notebooks and scraps of paper all scattered throughout my life. I went back to OneNote and all my problems went away. Some highlights:
Everything is searchable. The character recognition is good enough that my chicken-scratch meeting notes can be searched. Text within images is searchable.
OneNote syncs with Outlook so finding meeting notes is a breeze.
I now embed all files into OneNote - pdfs, spreadsheets, word docs, images, web clippings.
OneNote is constantly saving all changes so, combined with a scheduled automated backup, everything is in one place and is safe.
There are some built-in collaboration tools I have yet to try but that look useful.
It is SO worth the price. It allows you to get started on a project and avoid all that time spent deciding how to organize things.
Zotero, is a nice plugin for Firefox.
SnagIt
captures everything you could want, and lets you annotate it.
I prefer to use the good old url for delicious
Apart from that i use the Scrapbook extension in firefox when i want to save something on the disk. It's possible to tag the page, edit it and remove those stupids ads before saving it.
I also have a Wiki on a stick that i carry around on a usbkey for code snippets that should go to other clients when i'm travelling around
Mostly, my code snippets are embedded into projects i carry on the same usb key, which allows me to demonstrate some technologies right off to the client and get his advice based on a demonstration, not a listing of code...
For screen shots, I use a mix between ScrapBook and ScreenGrab. They are both firefox plugins that are pretty amazing when you need to get a screenshot of a page for editing. Works great for consulting.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146
Delicious Bookmarks extension for Firefox
It's a little primitive, but I've been using tiddlywiki (self-contained, single-file wiki) http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ which works good for basic text and markup. I combine it with a plugin to sync it with Outlook's notes (http://syncoutlooknotes.tiddlyspot.com/#SyncOutlookNotes) so that I can then sync it to my blackberry using the standard outlook-blackberry sync mechanism. This has the significant advantage that I can look at my notes and even write new notes when I'm out and about, away from my laptop, or just don't feel like lugging the laptop around to a meeting that I don't really need it for.
I'd prefer using something more advanced like Onenote, but being able to take my notes with my in the little blackberry has turned out to be a significant advantage.
Google Notebook is very convenient tool. You can clip and save any parts of web pages without leaving your browser tab. The Notebook plug-in automatically saves them as separate notes in your notebooks and keep the links back to the original web pages. You can organize your clippings later by moving them between your notebooks and/or tagging them. Very good for code snippets and references.
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User needs to parse native-pdf(selectable data, not scanned, no OCR required) in local. The pdf files may be over 400 pages with large tables. Some tables may not have clear borders. Is there any API I could use?
Thanks!
Now that I know you don't want an API, I might recommend that you check out ItextSharp, from nuget. I have used this several times in the past, and there are many stack overflow forums on how to use it. https://www.nuget.org/packages/iTextSharp/5.5.13.1
EDIT: I apologize, it looks like iTextSharp has been replaced with iText 7 https://itextpdf.com/en/products/itext-7
It seems there are several PDF parser APIs out there you could use. PDFTron looks promising, and they offer a free trial: https://www.pdftron.com/pdf-sdk/parsing-library/
DocParser may also be helpful for you, https://docparser.com/features.
I found all of these through a simple google search, so it may benefit you to do some research for yourself. As we can only make broad suggestions based on the information in your question.
A little background on my problem...
I play an online text RPG I will keep the name to myself as I dont want to pull people away from this community for another..... but that is off topic.
In our game, programmers come and go, quite frequently and they leave behind a legacy of programs that serve the community in the simplest of ways.
My question is, How do I open a XPI file and fix coding issues that are no longer relevant? How do I open a file and read it so that it is not in "Wingding"
What programs can i use to de bunk the issues that I will share below?
Sample of what I see when I open the file in notepad++; which is what every firefox add-on site has told me to use....
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What this add-on is, is a raid bar, that organizes accounts into "bookmarks" as an accessible and ready to join raids while retaining the link of the raid in the browser to reduce steps in the process of raiding.
The owner of the add-on is not me.... it is not logical to track down the person that made it because it was crafted over 10 years ago and the means of getting in touch with the person are not reliable anymore.
I dont want to take his add-on and claim it as my own.... I want to update it and carry on what he started as a respect for the player and programmers that have come and gone from the outwar community
Thank you for your time
Rename it from .xpi to .zip then you can open it and extract the contents. Do look into WebExtensions API though, as old XUL addons are going away by the end of 2017, you seem to have an overlay there. You can read more here - https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/11/23/add-ons-in-2017/
Webextensions here - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/
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I am trying to build my own training corpus for Named Entity Recognition, but I don't know if there is already an existing tool for this or if I have to implement one myself.
Basically, what I need to do is take a corpus and manually tag it word by word, which is pretty tedious, but it has to be done.
Can anyone tell me if there is already an existing one and where to get it?
I had a good experience working with BRAT.
GATE is also a very complex tool for annotating, steeper learning curve.
We had a nice experience using DataTurks . They provide nice intuitive UI which allows to add collaborator, insights into data, leaderboard for annotators and some other funky features.
https://dataturks.com
For online annotation of text or HTML corpus of relatively short documents I also recommend BRAT. You will have to go under the hood of the python web application if you want to do anything custom. It also failed to work for me on large HTML documents (100 or so pages).
I have also used stand-alone apps:
Protege + Knowtator: a bit cumbersome to setup / use, but it
works;
Gate: also cumbersome, and it somewhat works. Backup
your annotations at regular intervals as you might get
surprised by a stacktrace that also wiped or corrupted your annotated
corpus (which is just serialized Java objects).
If you are dealing with PDF documents, we built a web-based PDF Annotation Tool: NOTA. It accepts anything printed to PDF, including scans. We do commercial OCR on our end to recover text from images. There is a REST API to create color-coded annotation schemas and pre-populate documents with annotations, as well as a REST API for exporting formatted text and annotation offsets. There is also a JS API you can use to customize any annotation workflows, add metadata to annotations, etc. Relationships are not supported out of the box. Large documents, 200+ pages are supported. Email us and we can give you an API key to try it out. Details and documentation links can be found here. It is free for small research projects.
Here is a screenshot of what the annotations looks like :
I co-develop myself the web-based text annotation tool: tagtog.net
There is nothing to install, and you can define the type of entities you want to annotate. Additionally you can annotation relationships, document labels, and much more. You can upload your documents in many different formats, including PDF or markdown. You can annotate together with your team collaboratively. We have put great care in making the interface easy and beautiful. It looks like this:
You can start right away with a free account. Also I would be happy to help you with any doubt or issue you may have; just ping me or write us an email to the address shown on the website, tagtog.net.
Our annotation tool Prodigy is very scriptable, and is designed for active learning. It integrates especially well with our NLP library spaCy.
We've paid particular attention to the Named Entity Recogntion (NER) annotation workflows, as entity recognition can otherwise be very slow. I have a tutorial video on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4scwf8KeIA
There is this tool called, Dataturks is super simple to use, fully online NLP annotation tool, so that I even can easily push my teammates to complete datasets for our projects.
try TagEditor ,
It is a desktop application designed to annotate text for training with spaCy library.
You can tag Named Entities, Dependencies, Parts of speech, text categories
and print json file.
Example
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The boundaries between desktop and web
applications have really blurred.
Whilst once upon a time the nature of
developing for the web was totally
different to developing for the
desktop, nowadays you find the same
concepts [...] cropping up in both.
Since I am continually looking to improve my existing web applications, I'd like to know which common features of "classic" desktop applications do most web application miss?
For example, most desktop apps prompt the user to save unsaved data leaving a page or closing a window - a feature that many web applications miss. It could be that some feature aren't even necessary or are compensated in some other way. Maybe there are features which can't be implemented in (a classic) web application?
The thing you'll never be able to imitate in a web application is the low latency and instant feedback of a well written desktop app.
Even with the ajax techniques to load only parts of the pages, there usually is a noticeable delay in the response (or maybe it's just me and my narrowband). You're (for at least a few more years) just bound to the orders of magnitude of speed difference between network access and no network access.
The Undo button.
Right-click application-specific pop-up menus is the thing I've noticed most.
Usually right-clicking on a browser application will bring up the browser pop-up menu rather than an application-specific menu.
Keyboard support on most web applications is weak to non-existent. This is getting better than it used to be but you will still find plenty of mainstream sites that can't even get the tab order to work correctly. Most sites don't handle focus correctly and force users to use the mouse to activate even the simplest of data entry forms. You can usually forget about accelerator key support.
You can't pull the plug when the application hangs. (Yes, I'm serious)
For fairness is to mention, that desktop-applications miss a common feature of webapps: XSS (Cross-Site-Scripting). ;-)
Support for Big Files.
Integration with the client OS.
Support for special Input/Ouput Devices.
3D or anything else computationally intensive (specific to each users).
Advanced graphics: I've written a C program that draws a surface joining Bézier patches in a simple window and I had to tweak it in unimaginable ways to get it to draw in a decent time. I can't imagine that being ported to the web.
I mean, doing advanced graphics is not what every application needs, but if displaying nontrivial pictures is slow, then we shouldn't even talk about animations.
One Proper Macintosh menu bar support.
If you're a long-term Mac user, even with two large monitors, you have muscles that swoop to the top of the screen for actions, comfortable in the knowledge that the infinite depth effect will kick in and you can slide along that edge, picking from the menus.
No in-browser app can deliver that experience.
Two Command-keys, which is a side-effect of the menu bar not belonging to the app but goes a bit beyond that - good desktop apps have command-key shortcuts (accelerators to you Windows guys, I'm not just talking the Mnemonics which work with alt-key support). Great desktop apps show little reminders next to the buttons that have accelerators, when you hold down the appropriate modifier keys and wait a fraction of a second.
Three Smarter tables. There are a lot of apps where some kind of spreadsheet view works as a paradigm, including editing, sorting, resizing columns. I think I've seen some odd examples of partial support but a good table in a web app is still a bit of a dancing bear.
Four Used to be right-clicking but I'm finding more and more apps that do this properly, like Kerio's excellent webmail engine. It is still missing in enough web apps to be worth emphasizing.
Displaying application request/process status or messages on Taskbar or Status bar.
For the web, Javascript can be used to update text on status bar, but its not a common usage.
The usability benefits of standard GUI elements that look and behave uniformly across applications.
(Although this will surely change as web app developers adopt certain GUI elements and patterns that are considered best-practice, notably by eventually using the same libraries, e.g. for drag-and-drop.)
A common feature of "classic" desktop applications is the ability to work without an internet connection. I miss that in Web applications.
For example, MS word works without an internet connection, but you need to be connected if you want to use Google docs.
Of course, it does not matter if the application requires an internet connection anyway. For example, if its a feed reader, I have to connect to the internet, whether I use a desktop reader or an online reader.
Drag and drop from Finder/Explorer into the web app. And vice-versa.
The ComboBox is the most notable widget omission.
On the web, lack of desktop features such as popup dialogues is actually a boon, making for a simpler interaction experience. Think also of the autosave draft feature of Gmail vs. the desktop convention of prompting the user to save.
So consider carefully before trying to reconstruct that desktop feature in your web app.
Decent help. Seems to always be an afterthought, if it's even implemented...
Desktop integration (may change if we get online desktops)
Offline use (does exist but it is early days)
(Reliable) Responsiveness
Reliability generally (somewhat debatable as there are pros and cons - e.g. your data is probably better backed up online, however security generally is less in your control with an online app, and if the network connection fails an online app tends to freeze or fail horribly.)
Blue Screen of Death
A task-specific UI with no extra controls. A web app, in addition to all the controls of the web app, also has back, next, bookmarks, etc buttons. You end up with an extra inch-high set of buttons that don't directly support the task at hand.
This isn't necessarily a programming feature, but the audience of an application will be different. For a web application you are cutting out a complete segment of your audience (those with slow or no internet access). While this is a relatively low number, it is a difference between a desktop application and a web application.
I need to create a photo gallery for a website running IIS 4.0 or IIS 5.0 (im not sure which). It needs to display a low resolution version of the gallery to anyone, and it must show both the low and high resolution images for "priviledged" users. So I need access priviledges, photo albums and once the site is complete, the person I am doing this for needs to be able to upload their own images to the gallery. It also needs to have a minimal interface as it needs to be integrated into an existing website.
So I need some advice on this with the direction I should approach it.
Does anyone know if their is a customisable gallery out there that can do something like this, such as Coppermine or Jgallery or something. The alternative is to use a web framework like Ruby on Rails, CodeIgniter or Sproutcore (each which require learning a new language). The framework would be more work, but the existing galleries may not be customisable enough. The important bit is the user privileges in an admin panel.
I am relatively new to "web programming", although not new to normal/games programming. I have a few years experience with C/C++ OpenGL and Java. I have also read up on MVC etc, and did hello world with sproutcore, so I kinda get the idea. Although learning a framework is a much heavier investment.
What are your thoughts?
If you don't want to re-invent the wheel you could use Gallery2 (requirements here). It runs on IIS -- you'd just need PHP and a database. It's very configurable (including user accounts), has lots of plugins, and its open source if that's not enough. Also, the development and support communities are large and active.
you could always go the route of Dotnetnuke and then use Ventrian's Simple Gallery module (http://www.ventrian.com/Products/Modules/SimpleGallery/Demo.aspx)
Using DNN offers a ton of functionality, including the security you need, and it would save you from doing any web development.
If you are a bit more adventurous, try Smaltalk based Aida/Web and specially Aida/Scribo CMS (currently still in beta), which include Gallery so called scriblet as well. Scribo scriblets are otherwise web components which you can include directly into a text. You therefore add a gallery directly into a surronding text. See for instance a presentation as a Gallery for example.
I would recommend my own but... If it weren't for the low/high resolution thing with permissions I think it would fit the rest of your needs. I'm going to leave a link just in case you want to take a look at it:
nzFotolog
It's also open-source (although the license is not the best) and you can change it at will if you want. The code itself is clean and self-explanatory. The downside is that I haven't developed it for some time now :(
Having faced a similar dilemma myself I have to say that I found Gallery2 and Coppermine both far too all-encompassing and difficult to customise to the degree I would have wished. I ended up rolling my own using straight, procedural PHP with various bits of jQuery for the GUI fancy bits. At the same time I was able to bake in some e-commerce and data gathering for my wedding photography clients, ending up with something which exactly matched my needs. Certainly, the gallery aspects of this project were, for a complete programming (although not HTML) neophyte, the least challenging - it's exactly the sort of thing PHP is made for.
I'm now taking my first faltering steps with CodeIgniter for my next project (photoblogging software) and I can already see that the framework would make a gallery project very quick, simple and secure.
Flickr.com and their API may be suitable from what you described.
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/