application-advice

What Are Some Good .NET Profilers?

What profilers have you used when working with .net programs, and which would you particularly recommend?...

Are there any C# open source log viewers?

I'm just implemented a proper logging system for media browser, there are so many logging frameworks to choose from, some are heavier, some are lighter but at the end of the day moving data from the application on to the disk is an easy problem. Are there any open source log viewers? I would much prefer one built using C# or VB.Net i...

How would you align pictures?

I have a bunch of gif files which would be much more useful as animation. Unfortunately, they are not exactly the same size, and main features (country borders) shift a bit from picture to picture. NASA Vision Workbench seems like solution to my problem, but I would love to get something a bit simpler. ...

Image Optimizer for images used on the web (jpg, gif and png)

Does anyone know of an online app or an app for mac that will optimize images to be smaller in size for use on the web? It needs to be able to support .jpg, .gif and .png Thanks Thank you for all your reply's, I currently already use Photoshop to reduce the sizes of the images with the Save For Web and now I am trying to reduce them mo...

What BASE database development applications are available?

What applications/IDEs are out there to develop BASE database systems from? BASE systems (Basically Available, Soft state, Eventually consistent) are an alternative to RDBMS, that work well with simple data models holding vast volumes of data. Google's BigTable, Dojo's Persevere, Amazon's Dynamo, Facebook's Cassandra are ...

.Net Application performance monitoring tool

is there any .Net Application performance monitoring tool? I've an application in C#.net stand alone application. I've to look at the performance of that application. Performance in the sense memory,CPU usage and loading etc... ...

Where can I find good open source code flow visualization software?

I am working on an academic research regarding some very long functions in the Linux kernel (link, link). For that research, I would like to use some code flow visualization tool, that would be able to plot a graph in which each vertex is a decision point and each edge is a piece of code which runs in a consequent way. Do you know of a...

SQL Scripting Tool That Beats MS Query Analyzer?

I'm using MS Query Analyzer (as part of SQL Server 2000) to write T-SQL scripts to pull data out of a DB. This involves querying some tables, iterating through the results (using a cursor), some basic processing of the results and putting the processed data into another table. This is working pretty well as I can view the tables and stor...

Best C++ Debugger For Linux

I'm learning C++ and I want to know what is the best C++ debugger for Linux, because there are some things, that is better to use a debugger to get here in Stack Overflow and ask very very simple questions that can be easily solved by a debugger. Also, there is any book to learn how to use this debugger? ...

medical software - should i write my own or use existing?

i know nothing about medical records but im sure there's great opportunity in it now. im planning to either find software that manages records or build my own. if i do build my own, can someone recommend a platform to use? i prefer vb.net. is there anything better for this? if you do not recommend me to build my own medical records k...

Advice on dealing with one-off/special cases in a large code base?

Anyone have advice on the best way to deal with one-off or special case business rules in large complex web applications? Most of the time the requests come in from sales people that promise things to the customer. So as a simple example, lets say someone is selling Stack Overflow. Then a customer that is talking to a sales rep says "I'...

Good .net4 profiler

What is a good profiler for .NET 4.0? I'm willing to spend some money, but not too much (say up to £50) I'm developing games for windows phone and xbox using XNA, which means that the projects are commercial. I mention it because I've seen several which are free for non commercial use. Extra points for Visual studio integration. Nb. I...

Ad serving applications - alternative to Openx?

Hello I have been serving ads via OpenX on a site for a while now but was recently hit by the SQL Injection vulnerability in the software which caused all sorts of problems. I am looking for an alternative to OpenX. It doesn't have to be open source, so far Ad Butler (http://www.adbutler.com/) is looking the most promising. Any one...

Advice on how to simplify things for user

I'm making a very simple cms for a client. I am working on adding/editing articles and i wanted advice on how to make it as simple as possible for him to add images to an article. I was thinking of using some sort of bbcode [img] [/img] Any suggestions ? *I'm using codeigniter as a framework ...