tools

Tools to help with Internationalization of Strings in JSP

Are there any tools to assist with the internationalization of Strings within JSP files? Most IDEs (for example, NetBeans) offer such a feature for Java code. However, in the case of NetBeans, no such feature exists for JSP files. With gettext, for example, there is are various tools out there that assist with extracting text Strings f...

Any free HTML Image Slicer?

I was given one big JPG of the HTML interface. Now I need to break it down into pieces and assemble them with html table. Without a slicer it's pretty arduous and error prone. I do not have photoshop or firework, does anybody know of any free utilities that I can use? ...

Do you draw a distinction between text editors and IDEs?

I've seen several responses to questions asking for IDEs where text editors were suggested and vice-versa. That makes me think that people treat them as the same thing, where I draw clear distinctions. How do you define "text editor" and "IDE"? Do you see a difference between the two tools? Note that I accepted an answer which I thin...

I need a tool to log Linux network traffic by IP address

I know that there are tools for this, but I cannot seem to find what I am looking for. It should capture the number of bytes of network traffic transferred between the host machine and other machines. I am not looking for a packet capture tool like wireshark but an auditing tool that will log the number of bytes periodically (every min...

Process for reducing the size of a executable

Hey! I'm producing a hex file to run on an ARM processor which I want to keep below 32K. It's currently a lot larger than that and I wondered if someone might have some advice on what's the best approach to slim it down? Here's what i've done so far So I've run 'size' on it to determine how big the hex file is. Then 'size' again to ...

When to use a build tool?

A beginner question, bear with me: I'm just wondering under what circumstances one should use a build tool like nant or msbuild? I'm working on a medium sized application (.net 3.0), every developer is doing his work and builds on his machine checking his code changes into the repository as he goes. Once we're all done, I'll get all the ...

Formatting XSD scheme for peer review

I designed a data model which is represented by an XSD scheme. The data model also provides the types that are being used as web service parameters in a WSDL descriptor. I would like to send the XSD scheme around and ask the people involved to peer review the data model. What tool or presentation method would you suggest to be used as ...

What things didn't you know you needed but are now very glad you have?

Take a programmer that has never used source control, show them what it does, and their eyes light up... the benefits are obvious but until they actually see it most people had never considered the existence of such a tool. What other such things exist? Tools or approaches or techniques that aren't obvious before you encounter them, ...

Testing REST webservices

HI There, My organization is working on building RESTful webservices on JBoss appserver. The QA team is used to testing SOAP webservices so far using SoapUI. SoapUI has a new version that has REST capabilities. We're considering using that. 1) Are there any publicly available RESTful services available on the net for free that someone ...

What tool to use for JavaScript development?

So far I've used Dreamweaver and Eclipse to develop my JavaScript code and tried a bunch of others. And let me say I'm not impressed. I'd like to think there are better tools out there. Tools that could, for example, give me a hint that something is wrong when I type document.geElementsById before I "build" and test my project. Maybe i...

What is a good collaboration website for developers?

We have a number of developers located around the world which we need to collaborate with. Our functionality required is: Some sort of white board, which multiple users can view, and update. A private wiki. A ticket system for managing workload. A source control system would be nice, but not required. Ideally this would already be...

Streaming log(txt) viewer

Anybody in the know of a viewer (or Notepad++ plugin) that can read txt files in a streaming way? I would like to see for example the last 10 lines of a txt file that gets appended continiously. ...

Source Code Analysis - what do you do?

Situation: I have some source code, and I'm boning up on what happens. Who calls what, what goes where, etc, etc. (There is minimal documentation/comments, so I have to work it out myself). Now, my usual solution is to fire up a splitscreen text editor and stare at the code until I understand it, or maybe print it and write all over it ...

Any Tools to Catch Silly Mistakes in C Code?

I had a nasty typo that wasted my time and my colleague's time, it was something like this: for (i = 0; i < blah; i++); // <- I had a semi-colon here, that's the bug! { // Some awesome logic here } First of all, it's very embarrassing, second thing, I should never repeat this. I'm relatively new to C. In Java, I guess I can use Find...

Code standard refactoring on large codebase

My studio has a large codebase that has been developed over 10+ years. The coding standards that we started with were developed with few developers in house and long before we had to worry about any kind of standards related to C++. Recently, we started a small R&D project in house and we updated our coding conventions to be more suita...

equivalent of time for memory checking

we can use time in a unix environment to see how long something took... shell> time some_random_command real 0m0.709s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.012s is there an equivalent for recording memory usage of the process(es)? in particular i'm interested in peak allocation. ...

Key ingredients for good tools policy?

A mere sub-standard screwdriver can turn a quick Do-It-Yourself job round the house into an exercise in frustration that makes you feel really exhausted, annoyed and helpless at the same time. This is a feeling that is just too familiar not only to anyone who ever attempted to use a bogus screwdriver but most software professionals who a...

Is there any tools for automatic removal of comments from JavaScript code?

I'd like to have comments in my code, but I want them to be removed before deploying. Yes, it's not hard to write such a thing, but if it already exists… And how about comments in ASP pages? ...

Java “must-have” development tools

Java doesn't seem nearly as "well served" as .NET with tool lists on the Internet. There's James Selvakumar’s article entitled "Must have tools for a Java Developer" which has items I don't agree with. (Do FireFox and MySQL qualify as development tools?). There is also the Java Power Tools book. Assuming you already have a half-decent ...

Is there an equivalent tool to TimeSnapper for MacOS?

(Same as above) Is there an equivalent tool to TimeSnapper for MacOS? ...