Are there any tools you prefer to use for Effort Estimation for desktop/web development projects? Or is it just Excel/Google Spreadsheets? Please share your techniques for person effort estimations as well. :) Thanks, Sri ...
I know this question has been beaten to death, resurrected, shot twice, resurrected again, and then buried, even at the risk of all the above, I'm still going to ask. What would be the best source control for someone who: is an older experienced programmer (not that willing to learn stuff he doesn't think he needs) never uses source...
I'm totally new to actionscript, and such a tool like firebug will really help a lot! ...
Are there any NetBeans plugins available for generating flow charts from Java code? ...
I'm looking at porting my projects to Git from SVN (I'm convinced that Git is worth the move) and I'm trying to come up with a set of tools to use for the project. I've googled around for some tools but I wasn't really impressed with what I found. What visual tools are recommended for Git users on Mac OS X? What about Windows? (I hav...
I have linux centos 5.3. I am in progress to create a website but i am not aware of writing HTML. I need some tool to convert text to html. On google I have found many tools with can help in creating html pages but all are for windows. Can anyone please suggest me any similar tool for linux system. ...
As an old fart who has settled into using emacs whenever I can, I hear about Eclipse every so often. Is there any real reason to use Eclipse and give up all the knowledge of emacs and packages, plus the macros I wrote for it? ...
Hello, I am Software Engineer that is currently using .NET to develop applications. At my work, we have Visual Studio, but no productivity tools. I've used CodeSmith in past and have found that it made me significantly more productive. My boss, is very, for lack of a better word, cheap. I was hoping that some of you guys would have s...
I am looking for a sniffer that can work with the loopback address in Windows. So far, I found Microsoft Network Monitor which is a nice tool, but for localhost it's useless because on Windows, localhost packets don't pass through the regular network stack, so they're invisible to an ethernet sniffer like MS Network Monitor. How do you...
Hello, Until now I didn't use any design tools for my small personal home projects. In my workplace I'm using Enterprise Architect which is great but I wont use it for my personal projects because it's expensive and has far more capabilities than I really need. Can you suggest some lightweight and free tool that I can use to design my ...
I am new to ruby development. Up until this point, I've done only small project that easily fit in one's head (and in one or two files). Now, I've got a big project (it's a GUI for a database task scheduler) that I need to make changes to. There are many files (879 to be precise) and I need a better way to get to know what's where. ...
Background I work on a lot of small projects (prototypes, demos, one-offs, etc.). They are mostly coded in Visual Studio (WPF or ASP.NET with code written in C#). Usually, I am the only coder. Occasionally, I work with one other person. The projects come and go, usually in a matter of months, but I have a constantly evolving set of comm...
Hi, I am curious about how to view the source code present in a DLL, irrespective of the language used. Is there any software available for this? Thanks ...
My old source was simply being around lots of other programmers and talking shop but now, I haven't worked on a traditional programming team in over a year and wonder what people in the same boat do to stay current with their language, tools and environment. Blogs? Sites? Newsgroups? Thanks for the ideas. ...
Hi all, recently I start to take a bigger responsability because I was developing a project and now is in production, so im coordinating the manteinance and other developments (with 6 more developers), what I need is to assing/manage task to developers and graphics-designers and see when they are busy or idle to take better decitions. i...
Everyday we are reading through large amounts of code not well documented. Understanding the code by jumping into it might not be easy for everyone until they have an idea about the code structure. If you have to reverse engineer code and want to bring it into some diagrammatic form, what steps do you follow? I know there are tools, li...
I can start the dbms debugger in Toad and use it normally but if I hit the 'halt execution' button or just hit the 'Run' button to reach the end of the function it causes TOAD to hang. Windows reports it as not responding and I have to kill it through the task manager. I have had this problem in Toad 9.7.2.5 and Toad 10 on two differen...
I'm looking for something that does what the unix "strings" program does, but in Windows. And visual, too. Occasionally, I have a binary file and want to see if certain strings are present in it. Right now, I use notepad, and turn on wordwrap, and just ignore all the garbage and visually search for strings. Anyone have anything neat t...
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, ...
Hello! I need to find a piece of software that searches the folders of my hard drive and when it finds a duplicate folder then it will merge (or suggest to merge) it with a previously found folder of the same name. Does anyone know of something out there that can do the job? [Something freeware or portable would be great but not essen...