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Best tool for CSS?

Hi, What is the best free tool for CSS design? Cheers, Srinivas ...

How do I get output to show up in the Messages pane of the Error List for Visual Studio 2005?

I have a header file like this: #ifndef __GEN_NOTE_MARKERS_TO_DEVELOPERS_HPP__ #define __GEN_NOTE_MARKERS_TO_DEVELOPERS_HPP__ #ifdef _DEBUG // macros for turning a number into a string #define STRING2(x) #x #define STRING(x) STRING2(x) #ifdef TRIAGE_MESG_AS_WARNING #define TRIAGE_TODO_TAG(description) __p...

What tools do you design software with?

Years ago, I used to use Rational Rose. It was big and bulky, and I only used a subset of the features, but it got the job done. Lately (last few years or so), I've just been sitting down with sheets of plain white paper and a pencil. I usually break out a UML cheat sheet and just iterate over the problem. What tools do people use today...

Sofware Requirements Analysis

There are many tools out there for writing and managing requirements, but are there any good ones out there for reviewing them? I'm not talking about managing reviews, but automation tools that look for common requirement blunders (such as using negative requirements, or ones that are worded in a way to make testing difficult). More ...

Alternatives to Toad

Hello. I'm currently using Toad for my day-to-day work on our databases (queries, updates, small scripts, browsing of db objects, etc.). My question is: since my version of Toad is old and buggy, which are the (possibly free, but not necessarily) alternatives to Toad? The database versions we are using are 10g and 9i. Thanks a lot. ...

What lessons have you learned about using a wiki as a development tool?

I'd asked a question a while back about ways to encourage my team to collaborate. The tool we use is a wiki. Since this is the first time we are using the wiki (formally and as a team), we are learning by committing mistakes. One of the lessons has been that a wiki isn't suitable for tracking activities. It is better to use a tool buil...

Are there any free and/or better alternatives to RequisitePro to capture requirements?

I'm looking for a tool that will help with gathering and maintaining requirements (most probably use case specifications) I have used Rational Requisite Pro in the past and found it was OK but no longer have access to it Is there anything else I could use? ...

Tools for SVN Merging

SVN merging is very time consuming (especially on large code bases) and error prone. Eclipse and Netbeans plugins don't serve me very well. At the moment I'm using a combination of manual "svn merge" and the graphical diff Meld. Are there better alternatives (non-win32)? ...

How to reverse engineer undocumented legacy application?

Once I was assigned to a project which was about adding couple new features to the existing Java based web application. Because it was a matter of just couple simple features there was no chance for rewrite. Unfortunately, the code base came from a client without any documentation and the code itself wasn't commented too well. The orig...

Literate programming

Literate programming is a way of developing software where documentation comes first, then the coding. One writes the documentation of a code snippet, and then writes the implementation of the snippet. The visual appearance of the software source code would be a plain document like word, with code paragraphs in it. I am trying to conve...

What GNU tools for refactoring are there?

How to refactor c source code that compiles with gcc, preferably a tool that can be used from the command line? ...

What is a good tool to get SQL code completion with SQL Server 2005?

I've tried Red Gate's SQL Prompt and like it, but cannot afford it at the moment. I miss the good code completion that this tool provides. Are there any good free tools out there that have SQL code completion (table and column names, etc)? I've tried TOAD, but it was quite buggy. It would crash, and would also leave connections open ...

Notepad replacement for viewing very large text files

I have a program that creates daily log files that are 30-60MBs in size. I often need to open these files and search for various events. Notepad.exe takes a very long time to open a file that large. I've tried various shareware programs, some are better than notepad, but they all take a while to load these log files. I'm guessing part of...

Web Development Tools Question - Automatic File Upload

Hey StackO's, This should a quick question for some easy rep. I'm doing some PHP Website development, decided to check out and play around with jQuery as well. I don't want to install and manage a local PHP server/service, but I would like a quick one click method for automatically uploading the PHP file I'm working on to my hosting se...

On XP, best way to synchronize files and folders.

I'm using SyncToy 1.4 and it would be fine for what I need except that: It can't handle the assigned drive letter changing between systems (e.g. syncing a USB drive), it leaves its own (hidden) files in the folders being synched (is this a limitation of the OS/FS?), it recreates empty folders for ones that have been deleted, it syn...

Is there a tool that supports discrete mathematics?

Discrete mathematics (also finite mathematics) deals with topics such as logic, set theory, information theory, partially ordered sets, proofs, relations, and a number of other topics. For other branches of mathematics, there are tools that support programming. For statistics, there is R and S that have many useful statistics functions ...

What TFS tool would you recommend?

I am mostly use to using Subversion for my source control. However, my current position has me using TFS. The UI of the TFS explorer and its integration with Visual Studio has me a little disoriented. I miss having tools like SmartSVN where I could see at a glance what I've modified and is pending checkin. What tool sets do you recommen...

Anyone using a third-party Windows registry editor that they would recommend to others?

I work with the Windows registry editor (regedit.exe) on a near-daily basis, and occasionally find myself wishing it had more features. For example, it'd be nice if it had: a way to import and export favorites. an advanced search feature that lists all the keys it found, rather than a simple Find feature. It would be great if there w...

Automating code review and refactoring

I'm trying to do automated code review and refactoring with a tool. Something in the lines of FxCop or ReSharper. Looking for tool suggestions that meet these requirements: Low learning curve. Targeted at C# (and maybe VB.NET). Let's me easily add or customize rules (and understands entire CodeDOM). Well documented. FREE or dirt cheap...

GWT Unit Testing TDD and Tooling

hi there I m just starting using gwt and so far so good, however after reading some sample code I wonder is it necesary to have a high level of test coverage? (I can see that most code is declarative and then add some attributes I can see the sense in checking so me particular attributes are there but not all) Also i would be intereste...