I have seen Jetbrain's ReSharper tool on many "must-have" tool lists. I've installed it on a few occasions over the last few years and it's turned my Visual Studio sluggish and erratic. I generally uninstall it after a week or two because it make VS flaky, I want to like it, but I can't get past the instability. So what's the deal? Am ...
I have installed ReSharper and "played" with it twice now. I have always found it annoying and that it got in the way of the hotkeys I was already using in Visual Studio. The people that use it tend to swear by it. For those of you that do use it, where do you find it saves you the most time or what do you think its best feature is? Pl...
We have a distributed team working on a mid-sized project; I am currently the only technical person involved. At the beginning of the project we had a discussion on what to use for project documentation and we agreed on a wiki. We are now a couple of months into this project and still nobody except me has put any actual content into the...
What tools do you use that may be considered rare in that aspect that you have only seen a few people use it? It may be any tool that may be valuable for programmers. I myself use UPX on occasions. ...
I'm curious what tools people have found useful for building flowcharts. Obviously MS Visio and OmniGraffle come to mind but they both feel so bloated and also tend to emphasize the document formatting/printing side and less on helping to organize the actual logic. Is there anything else out there that fellow developers would recommend? ...
Is there a tool/plugin/function for Firefox that'll dump out a memory usage of Javascript objects that you create in a page/script? I know about Firebug's profiler but I'd like something more than just times. Something akin to what Yourkit has for Java profiling of memory usage. Reason is that a co-worker is using id's for "keys" in a...
I suggested the testing and functional teams to use Freemind map for jotting the functional flows and test steps. There was some paranoia but our module took it up and the QA teams were surprised to see near zero review comments. There was misconception among the team that there are doing more work. I assured them that by the time others...
One of our developers works from home. What tools should be used to manage him? Edit: The way we currently work is - Issues are assigned to him via Mantis - Once he has completed an issues he puts his changes into version control (SVN) - He changes the status of the issue to Resolved in Mantis - If QA is happy the issues is cl...
I just want a simple tool that will help me quickly write scripts/packages that I can schedule to run. My transform requirements are pretty simple (changing column names, merging/splitting tables, and date conversions). I'll sacrifice flexibility for speed of development on this one. Any come to mind? ...
I am about to join a new software team midway through a project. They are using ExtremePlanner to track their progress. While they tracking tasks completed, they are not tracking how the estimated size of the project is changing over time. In the short time I have been monitoring the project this estimate has changed faster than the co...
It's hard for me to imagine a php script that is more than a few hundred lines of code. It seems that, for a non-persistent environment, web-based scripting is usually done is small chunks and used for the purpose of delivering a portion of a website to the end user. I'd like to know if people are developing any type of large, or persi...
Some of the most efficient engineers, developers and IT professionals I know usually carry around a common "toolkit" of useful programs, add-ins or utilities which help them for day-to-day debugging, developing or designing. The question is: What is in your utility toolkit.. What tools couldn't you live without? ...
I just started using Log Parser Lizard to examine my IIS and Event logs. What UI tool do you use on top of LogParser 2.2 to view your log files on production? ...
We have a number of projects that use the same and/or similar package names. Many or these projects will build jar files that are used by other projects. We have found a number of foo.util foo.db and foo.exceptions where the same class names are being used leading to name space conflicts. Does anyone know of a tool that will search a s...
It's the first great virtue of programmers. All of us have, at one time or another automated a task with a bit of throw-away code. Sometimes it takes a couple seconds tapping out a one-liner, sometimes we spend an exorbitant amount of time automating away a two-second task and then never use it again. What tiny hack have you found usefu...
As good developers we keep our code as standard compliant as possible to help in porting between platforms. But what tools are available that help us build the code in a uniform way across multiple platforms. *nix family has make but Windows needs nmake. I have read about SCons but never used it in anger. What is your favorite build to...
I'm currently evaluating CodeRush and one thing that I liked most when reading the featurelist was the "Export type to new file" or similar functionality. Now that CodeRush runs within my IDE, I cannot find this functionality. Is there a plug-in required for it or am I just missing something? ...
Is there a GUI application that can open serialized Java object files (both binary and XML format) and display them in browsable fashion (maybe like the Eclipse debugger displays the state of variables)? It needs to work at least partially when not all classes can be resolved (an option to attach extra jars would be nice) or when there ...
I am seeking a backup tool to back-up virtual OS instances run through Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. According to the MS docs, it should be possible to do it live through volume shadow copy service, but I am having trouble finding any tool for any. What are the best solution to back-up MS Virtual Server instances? ...
I have a compiled GUI application. I need to learn whether it is programmed using MFC libraries. Depends.exe does not return any dependency to MFC42*.dll. Is there any tool to get additional information about executables? (If possible not just the libraries, but the compiler being used, etc..) ...