software-tools

How to understand the design and code flow of any product quickly?

I have switched to a new company and I am working on a product that has a huge code base without documentation. I want to quickly get acquainted with the design and the code flow of the product so that I may become a productive member ASAP Slowly and steadily one does gets to understand the code, but what should be the best and smart wa...

Trouble shooting tools that a developer should possess

Hi I am looking for the different development aid and troubleshooting tools that a developer should know either working an application development or web development. I am in to desktop applications development in windows. I am adding the tools i know 1) SysInternals suite (process explorer the most to troubleshoot issues related to ...

What a good and free windows SQL client app?

Something like SQL Wave but free or open source? Thanks. ...

platforms for large software projects (OSGi or alternatives?)

They is kind of an open-ended question. Anyways, here at work we've got a few very large Java EE software projects. Here's a quick description of our projects: They are divided into a few dozen Maven projects. Some of those projects change on every release; others don't change for months. All are Maven/Spring-driven. Is OSGi the ri...

Can anybody recommend a free xslt tool?

I'm looking for a free xslt debugging tool for Windows. Is anybody using anything worth recommending? Appreciate any advice, thanks. ...

Can CodeRush with Refactor Pro and CodeItRight co-exist?

Does anyone know if these two products can coexist? Will these tools get in eachothers way? ...

Useful Binary Diff Tool (other than msdn[apatch and mpatch], xdelta, bsdiff, vbindiff and winmerge)

I need a binary diff tool that can produce a patch file from compared 8MB files (.dat compressed files) and can merge produced said patch file to the older .dat file (size 8MB). I tried using msdn's apatch and mpatch, but mpatch produces 7MB diff or patch file when differentiating two 8MB files, when supposedly, the said patch file shou...

Open source project management software similar to Fogbugz?

I'm looking for an open-source project management and issue-tracking tool with features similar to Fogbugz, well, specifically with a clean, easy to use UI. I've been looking around but can't seem to find a similar tool. Has anyone got any suggestions? Thanks EDIT: I've just seen OpenAtrium - has anyone any experience of using it. ...

Tool to Draw Extend ER (with inheritance)

Is there any tool to draw E(xtended)ER diagram with inheritance in a form of generalization/specialization? ...

MySQL Migration to OSX?

Hello all i look around for software to MySQL Migration som bardy maby can help me? i use OSX platform, and relly confurse over i can't get a software for this. i use a lot of time to look 2 database its "up2date" sombardy can maby help? or maby MySQL scripting i need? donno i hob for helping to mysql Migration software on osx. ...

What are popular addons on Bugzilla

We are using Bugzilla for tracking of the bugs. We want to use addons for task tracking and for project management. There are a lot of addons for this purpose. Can any one please suggest the good addons for this purpose. Also let us know any other addons that you know are good. ...

Is there any tool that provides paragraph level premissions to be set on a document?

Hi guys; I'm in need of a tool/software that provides paragraph level permissions to be set on a document? If you have any idea about this or a similar software please suggest. Thanks ...

Web page design view in Netbeans?

I'm working on a project in PHP using Netbeans IDE which is best for coding part but when I'm coding HTML part if I want to see Design view in Netbeans, that is not visible in Netbeans so is there any plugin or software that can make design view of web page like in Dreamweaver can also show in Netbeans? ...

terminology to describe a server running source control, bug tracking and CI tools

I'm looking for a 'term' that describes holistically the set of various software development tools/services that most developers use on a day to day basis. While each tool by itself has a specific purpose and can be described, is there a plural term when they are grouped together and running as a polymorphic service. If a person said a ...

pdf to word converter

Respected friends, I just wanted to know which is the best professional software application to convert PDF to doc format. One of the good software application i found through surfing is "NITRO" but is there any better software application which will convert even unique mathematical derivations and its symbols to its word formate. A...

Mind mapping software for a team

Hey everyone, I am looking for a collaborative map mind software that can be used by a development team. The basic requirement is, obviously, to be able to work together from different location on the same document - We can use Dropbox to sync or it could be an online service. Also, since we intend to use it both for documentation, iss...

Tool for webdesign content sharing

Hi I'm looking for platform to : upload, catalog, tag and share pictures, links and files. It would be used as knowledge base for webdesign student group on my university. Do you know any specialized solution (it would be great to have desktop app mac/pc to manage uploaded content). I searched but found only general purpose tools. As I r...