What software do you use to manage Scrum software development? We've tried Tackle and VersionOne (both free) so far and they are good except for the fact that it's difficult to track work in progress. For example, if I have a task that I estimate will take me 8 hours to complete, I've done 4 hours of work with 4 hours remaining, the ta...
I'm looking for a profiler to use with native C++. It certainly does not have to be free, however cost does factor into the purchase decision. This is for commercial work so I can't use personal or academic licensed copies. The key features I'm looking for are: Process level metrics Component level metrics Line-level metrics Supports ...
I'm starting to work on an existing project that has very verbose logging and the logs are a real pain to go through. Have you guys ever used any tools for log analysis/parsing? Can you recommend me something powerful and easy to customize and use? At first I thought I should write a tool to parse the logs, but I'm thinking maybe somethi...
I know of google code search http://www.google.com/codesearch and koders http://www.koders.com/ . These two sites help me find usage of some of the libraries, where official documentation of the libraries would go only so far. If you know of some other tools/tips for using these search tools/other tips for finding library usage examples,...
In postgresql you have a wealth of optimizations at hand to configure it for your performance needs. The settings for memory usage are still easy enough, but with other options like the cost factors for CPU and IO which are used for the query optimizer are quite a mystery for me. I wonder if there is a program available which would do le...
I'm looking for a VS2008 Plugin or other tool that allows me to edit CSS and preview the changes in IE and Firefox. I'm not full time web designer, so free or open source is a plus. Visual Studio integration is a big plus Reviewed so far: CSSVista Pros: Free Nice previews Cons: Editor is not powerful No save to local file No ...
I work on a (raytracer) graphics engine and during the development process I want to create a bunch of pictures describing algorithms in space. First I thought about 3D packages (like 3DSMax and others), then about 2D (like Illustrator and others). But it all seems to be an overkill... (I'd like to use Rhino 4.0 Evaluation, but it is an...
I am looking to replace the life cycle tools currently used by my development teams. Tools that I'm looking for: Version Control Defect/Issue Tracking Requirements Tracking Test Case Management (potentially) Project Management: Project Status, hours entry I have a new beefy server (Windows 2008 Server) to run all tools on. I'm looki...
iMacros is a very nice tool which allows to authomatically fill HTML forms and extract content, includes cycles and many other features. The problem is that it is quite tricky to make it extracting content properly. For example, I have failed to extract all London-to-Tokio flight prices for all the dates between 1/10/08 to 1/12/08 to fin...
I have an MSDE2000 database which appears to be approaching it's 2Gb limit. What tools can I use to determine where all the space is being used? Ideally think TreesizePro for SQL Databases ...
I've got a script that tars an entire source code directory (around 800MB), and I want it to run as fast as possible. GNU Tar, for some reason, was kind of slow when untarring. I was wondering if anyone's already made this comparison and knows which application has the fastest tar/untar implementation. For Windows, btw. ...
What tools do you use to find unused/dead code in large java projects? Our product has been in development for some years, and it is getting very hard to manually detect code that is no longer in use. We do however try to delete as much unused code as possible. Suggestions for general strategies/techniques (other than specific tools) ar...
I'm already a professional J2EE developer by day, and Rails developer by night. I'm planning on adding Python to my list of skills. I'm already convinced a language is just a tool, so I'm not interested in a religious war. I agree with the Pragmatic Programmers that learning one language/year is a good thing for your professional develop...
Which profiler is better for general purpose profiling and heap analysis? 90% of our apps are standalone command line programs with substantial database and numeric processing. The other 10% are webapps/servlet container apps (with very little JSP and NO SCRIPLETS!). Target user would be Sr Software Engineer with 5-10 years of industry e...
Have you had any good/bad experiences with Case Complete? Are there Use Case creation products like it that you would recommend? Thank you ...
I am looking for free and/or open source requirements management tools. Does anyone have any experience with these tools and can recommend one or two? Thanks. ...
Many of the questions asked here are relevant to research I'm doing. These questions and answers are widely dispersed and not always easy to find, doing manual browsing, and sometimes an insightful answer or comment occurs in unrelated topics as well. I want to automate finding these relevant Q's & A's, based on sets of keywords, then u...
Could you guys recommend me a good db modeling tool? Mainly for SQL Server... thanks! ...
I want to audit my Solaris server using any auditing tools. ...
I'm in a situation where I would to generate a script for a database that I could run on another server and get a database identical to the original one, but without any of the data. In essence, I want to end up with a big create script that captures the database schema. I am working in an environment that has SQL Server 2000 installe...