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Free SQL Query generator tool for oracle database?

Do you use any free tool to generate query for oracle database. Tool that autocomplete and suggests the table names and column names. ...

Is Git ready to be recommended to my boss?

I want to recomment Git to my boss as a new source control system, since we're stuck in the 90s with VSS (ouch), but are the tools and 3rd party support good enough yet? Specifically I'm talking about GUI front-ends similar to TortoiseSVN, decent visual diff/merge support, as well as stuff like email commit notifications and general sup...

Customizing the Main Menu in Visual Studio 2008

This sounds very simple, but I am frustrated for the past few hours to get this done. I am not able to see "Macros" sub menu under "Tools" menu in Visual Studio 2008. I go to Tools->Customize->Commands. Select Tools under Categories and click Rearrange Commands. Instead of showing me the Tools Menu it shows me Files. Am I doing some...

Java Swing: Libraries, Tools, Layout Managers

What libraries/tools do you have in your Java Swing Tool set? XUL Layout Managers Packagers/Installers Books etc..... ...

How do you collaborate with other coders in real time?

Pretend you're hitting me up for some javascript help on IM. How can you make it as easy as possible for me to help you get your code working? I run into this all the time. I'm on instant messenger and someone is asking me a question (or maybe it's me that's asking them) and we have lots of back-and-forth communication trying to work on...

Java Leaky Abstraction Checker

I am mulling over the idea of writing a program to check for "leaky abstractions" in Java. The one area that popped into mind right away is with exceptions: public class X { // this one is fine, Readers throw IOExceptions so it is // reasonable for the caller to handle it public void parse(final Reader r) throws I...

Does Resharper 4.1 support both Camel Humps and normal selection modes?

I've found the setting for Camel Humps in resharper: Resharper -> Options -> Editor -> Use CamelHumps The problem is that I would still like to be able to use the normal selection mode (i.e. the default behaviour for CTRL+Arrow and CTRL+SHIFT+Arrow) as well as the CamelHumps mode. For example consider this variable: private int MyVer...

How to show relationships between Todo-lists?

How can I show relations between ToDo-lists? I am using Devtodo. I will give an example. I have my MIT humor in one XML-file: <todo version="0.1.19"> <note priority="low" time="1237320287"> see the MIT humor-video </note> </todo> Other file is about Usenet-humor <todo version="0.1.19"> <note priority=...

creating support/dev tools for your project - how much time do|should you spend on it?

It could be as simple as one-liner scripts, or as complex as a complete programming language with parser and debugger. But there's the well-known danger of creating a labor-saving tool, that takes more labor to create than the original task (unless you can it amortize it over several projects). I'm concerned about getting carried away ...

SQL Server Prevent Scripts Being Run on the Wrong Instance...

This is less of a programming question and more of a suggestions for tools one :-) I'm looking for a way to prevent scripts being accidentally run on the wrong sql server instance, ie so you don't run that script for clearing down customers in your development environment on the live/production environment. What I'm basically after is ...

Javascript development addon for browsers

I need an addon that assists Javascript (client-side) web dev in browsers other than Firefox, for which Firebug suffices. Especially something for IE(7) and Opera(9) with which I'm currently experiencing issues. Info about dev tools like Firebug, are welcome for any browsers. ...

How can I manipulate a web page (re-arranging some HTML controls) through the Browser?

I want to be able to open my website and use some kind of firefox plugin to re-arrange some Html on the site by drag-and-drop and be able to use that modified source. I used to use a css plug-in but do not remember it anymore. Are there any cool tools or plugins avaiable? ...

How can I write apps for the latest Sony Ericsson phones?

For me in particular it's about Sony Ericsson W715. What languages can I use and what environment do I need? A tutorial recommendation would also be nice. ...

Clipboard viewer for programming purposes

I need a clipboard viewer in order to understand the type and contents of the data I'm receiving. Is there any such program available, (for Windows) that lets you explore any type of data currently in the clipboard? ClipSpy: Unfortunately the only workable multi-format viewer, ClipSpy, shows me the string data wrapped every 10 character...

Exception logging tools in .Net

I'm looking for a good tool that will give me a detailed analysis of exception in production releases. I know of EurekaLog and I saw once an add for a software with a frog or something similar in it's name, searched it in Google without any results. Does anyone have recomandations ? My main goal of course is to extract the maximum amo...

Is there any tool to quickly create RPC classes for GWT?

Is there any tool to quickly create RPC classes for GWT that extends RemoteService, the Async version and the RemoteServiceServlet derived class. The only input should be some functions list and all the wrapper code should be generated. I hope you got my question. ...

How to get VisualStudio 2010 cool tools without spending $12,000

We are a small dev shop with 10 people, 3 of whom are currently doing .Net. The new VisualStudio 2010 tools look really nice, and we would like to use them - but it seems that many of them (historical debugging, UML tools, testing stuff) are only going to be available in the Ultimate Edition. And that costs $12,000. Or nearly forty grand...

What are the latest tools for mobile development - iPhone/Android/etc...

Looking for write once deploy across multiple platforms, is there such a thing? Also looking for an tools that would help speed up mobile development, OSX/Linux based preferred. ...

Development software - How common is it for developers to buy it for personal use

Edit: The answer is yes, pretty common. The Microsoft TechNet is one of best deals (except it does not have Visual Studio). So MSDN generally is a better choice. Thank you Hello All, I was recently looking at prices of Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL server and MSDN subscription. I never considered it necessary to buy it for personal use, ...

Best XPath tools

What tools are you guys using for XPath and why? Right now I'm using SketchPath because its totally awesome, but its a windows app that needs to be installed WhiteBeam online XPath test bedbecause you can test expressions from the website SketchPath seems to stand out the most to me because it actually helps you create the xpath and ...