What tools do you use to annotate images? I mean, for example, placing a screenshot into documentation with some text bubbles, arrows, numbers for references in text and so on. Sure, you can do all of these in general graphics editor, but a specialized tool (or plugin for a generic editor) would be so much nicer and should produce more...
Basically, growl notifications (or other callbacks) when tests break or pass. Does anything like this exist? If not, it should be pretty easy to write.. Easiest way would be to.. run python-autotest myfile1.py myfile2.py etc.py Check if files-to-be-monitored have been modified (possibly just if they've been saved). Run any tests in th...
We have a large backlog of things we should do in our software, in a lot of different categories, for example: New problem areas for our products to solve New functionality supporting existing problem areas New functionality requested by our existing users Usability and "look" enhancements Architectural upgrades to the back-end Bug fi...
Possible Duplicate: What is your single favorite development tool? Though this question asked for your favorite tool, I wonder which one would be the most painful to have to give up in your daily work? ...
What must have tools/apps/utilities are recommended for OS X in general, and for a developer using that platform specifically? ...
What are your favorite supplementary tools for Java development? Mine are: 1) Total Commander (due to the ability to search inside JARs). 2) JAD + Jadclipse (to understand and debug libraries) And of-course, Google. (can't really live without it) ...
I am interested to know what strategies people have to keep their code AND work versioned across multiple machines. For example I have a desktop PC running XP, a macbook running OSX and VMWare running XP as well as a sales laptop for running product demos. I want to know how I can always have these in sync. Subversion is a possibility...
Are there any tools you recommend for security testing your web applications? I have used WebScarab from OWASP, but find it a bit difficult and unwieldy to use. Is there anything else you would suggest using? ...
What is the best tool to create a web application interface prototype? ...
I'm looking for an online tool that will let me create a gif or png like this one: Some kind of LaTex online service, with friendly examples? ...
I'm curious what assistive technologies tech-savvy SO users recommend. What tools do you use to facilitate text entry and web navigation? I'm especially interested in solutions that don't require voice-commands, since programming requires keywords that can be a pain to spell manually. ...
do you use a tool? or just manually make them? ...
A lot of what I am working on is changing the mindset of a community of developers. Moving them from one tool to another, or to picking up a new tool. What are some of the suggested or recommended ways to get a community to pick up a new meme? While we can mandate tool usage, this is a last resort. I would rather have the developers m...
Server virtualization is a big thing these days, so I'm tasked at work to install some of our software on a virtualized server and see what happens. Long story short: a rsync transfer promptly brings the virtualized server to its knees. The virtualization host is a beefy machine with no other load; I don't think this should be happening....
"It is not possible to check out a single file. The finest level of checkouts you can do is directory level." Any ideas on how to get around this issue when using Subversion? We have this folder in subversion where we keep all our images.I just want to check out one file(image) from that.This folder is really big and has ton of other s...
I'm a big fan of the way Visual Studio will give you the comment documentation / parameter names when completing code that you have written and ALSO code that you are referencing (various libraries/assemblies). Is there an easy way to get inline javadoc/parameter names in Eclipse when doing code complete or hovering over methods? Via pl...
I used to often find myself coping a piece of code from a website/Word document etc only to discover that when doing Paste I would end up with the desired code plus some extra html tags/text, basically extra formatting information. To get rid of that extra ballast I would paste the text to the Notepad and then copy it again and then pas...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of a window manager for visual studio 2008 like this one. I really liked it, thats all i used in vs2005, and saw somewhere it supposed to work in vs2008 but it doesnt. I have tried it on many installations of vs2008 and it doesnt remember any settings. I really liked being able to easily change window ...
I'm well aware of Java tools for manipulating, generating, decompiling JVM bytecode (ASM, cglib, jad, etc). What similar tools exist for the CLR bytecode? Do people do bytecode manipulation for the CLR? ...
I'm tired of using: tail -f development.log To keep track of my rails logs. Instead I would like something that displays the info in a grid and allows my to sort, filter and look at stack traces per log message. Does anyone know of a GUI tool for displaying rails logs. Ideally I would like a standalone app (not something in Netbeans...