Can anybody recommend some good portable apps for development? I'd prefer not to deal with U3, but what I'm hoping for is an IDE/editor with code completion and syntax highlighting. Edit: Notepad++ appears to have completion and some other awesome features. I think I'm going to give that a shot. Thanks, Greg!...
We have a codebase that is several years old, and all the original developers are long gone. It uses many, many threads, but with no apparent design or common architectural principles. Every developer had his own style of multithreaded programming, so some threads communicate with one another using queues, some lock data with mutexes, ...
For all my present Diff / Merge needs I'm using [Beyond Compare][1]; when I decided to buy a license for it I tried other similar tools, both payware and freeware. Now BC is at version 3, and I think it's a great tool... but what are your experience in this field? Do you think there is something better? And what are the feature you like...
Hello, I work as a Project Leader. I am trying to do project postmortem for projects which my team works on. Currently I use Wiki to note down problems, issues and final recommendations. But it makes hard to note down every problem we noticed just when it happen, so we miss some issues. I'd looked for some software which could help m...
Does anyone work at a place that offers developers a "tools budget?" I would like to argue that something like that would not only make for happy developers but more efficient use of resources. I was trying to ask about getting a copy of TimeSnapper and with a cost around $20 it seemed like in between me stopping my boss to ask, and doi...
I've been recently scouring the internet for an IDE to use on some hobby projects. I use VS at one of my jobs and Emacs on the other. I'm looking for something multi-platform and more light-weight than stuff like Eclipse. Most of the work I do is in C/C++, Python and Lua. I've looked into Code::Blocks and it seemed to have exactly what...
If you had $150 to spend on one or more developer tools or utilities, what would they be? Please list in shopping list form: $25 SuperMerge (link) $49 MegaGridPro (link) Note: I'm looking for products which are for sale here, so please don't list free software. And, no, donating to an open source project doesn't make it non-free, at ...
What tools do you use to boost up your application development? ...
Vim is my editor of choice, and I feel I am above average in my use of it. I do recognize, though, that the feature list of vim is huge. With this in mind, I was wondering what features you vim users out there use on a regular basis. ...
Just curious if there are better tools out there for sql server development. We currently use the standard MS stack . . . SSMS with the addition of Redgate's SQL Prompt (which rocks...most of the time). Are there others? Are there better tools? ...
I recently burned up my development laptop (it literally emitted smoke from the vents). After pulling the hd I was unable to get it to spin with a USB device attached to a home tower. Since I was on a deadline I had to rush and buy a new laptop (Turion 64 x2) running Vista. After I installed my required applications VS2005/2008, Sql Ser...
Can anyone recommend a system or piece of software that will allow me to keep track of the assets in our (small) company. Ideally I'm looking for something that will track laptops, desktops etc, as well as software we may have purchased. Would be a bonus if it also kept track of less tangible things like domains. Free would be nice, b...
I'm looking for any recommendations for source code browsers, but especially ones that work on a large evolving source code base (somtimes in the order of 100k files, but more often about 10k files). My requirements would be: Some level of C/C++ language symbol parsing Straight text searches (with some regex) The tools also should allo...
Any good suggestions? Input will be the name of a header file and output should be a list (preferably a tree) of all files including it directly or indirectly. ...
Ok, so I demo'd Refactor Pro and Resharper, I'm more comfortable with Resharper so that's what I bought. When I uninstalled Refactor Pro I thought everything was breezy. However, now when I open Visual Studio I get The Add-in 'DevExpress Tools' failed to load or caused and exception, woudl you like to remove this Add in? If you choos...
Hi http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12073/what-is-the-best-xml-editor was a great question regarding XML editors on Windows. What about on OS X? Oxygen is feature complete, but, it's a Java app and a bit clunky on OSX. It's also extremely expensive. Anything Mac native and comparable in features for less than $300 ? Thanks Andrew...
I'm a little lost here. I don't know flash, but I want to learn - especially since Adobe's opened up the spec. I don't want to learn badly enough to shell out for the real tools, though. What sort of toolchain is available for flash/swf/flv/etc compiling, processing, converting, etc? What do I need to know, and where should I start? ...
One thing I really miss about Java is the tool support. FindBugs, Checkstyle and PMD made for a holy trinity of code quality metrics and automatic bug checking. Is there anything that will check for simple bugs and / or style violations of Ruby code? Bonus points if I can adapt it for frameworks such as Rails so that Rails idioms ar...
What is the proper way to dispose an old hard disk which contains my source code and other intellectual property? I was about to throw it away in the recycle box but thought better to check it with SO users first. ...
The question of TFS versus OSS has already been asked, with most answers tending toward OSS as the better alternative. I'm in a position where my employer (an ISV with a mix of onshore, offshore development staff) is about to take the plunge to TFS. We currently develop with VS 2008, subversion, and various supporting toolsl NUnit, NCo...