One of the things I really love about programming is the tradition of building your own tools. Sometimes it's out of necessity. What you need doesn't exist. And sometimes it's out of ignorance (I hand-wrote many parsers before learning about lex & yacc). What programming tools have you built for yourself? ...
I am working on JUnitMax, a project to increase the utility of automated tests. I'm looking for novel, unexpected ways tests prove valuable. For example, I use tests in responding to defects--one at the system level that fails, reproducing the defect and another at the unit level so I know what code to change (perhaps derived using the S...
Could somebody tell me wich new dynamic tools analysis for C-code are there like valdgrind? ...
I need the tool for graphical representing of work flow in a program (like electronic circuits are described with graphical representation). The representation has to be like the following: functions are boxes and arrows between boxes are "messages". Like this: This picture shows the following: (c (a) (b)) Where parameters of c() are ...
After seeing a previous post "Making Applications programmed in .NET languages work on older machines", I've got to wonder; Are there tools to compile CIL to a binary? If so, you could convert a CIL file to a native Windows app if you didn't want the user to require the .NET framework? Or even target the linux platform from .NET! Tha...
I am new to the Mac world and I'm looking for PHP development tools, right now the most important thing is the editor. Syntax highlighting and a file tree list are mandatory, of course, and code insight would be nice (of course :). I am hoping that there are free editors out there that provide these functionality and I hope someone could...
Is there a repository on the web with good sample Use Cases for Software Development projects? I'm really not looking for a template. I'm actually looking for a document which is a good sample that I can use as a reference. A word document. ...
Does anyone know what happen to Martin Granell's String Resource generator? I've been looking for it all over the net but can't find it. His blog both old and new are unreachable. Can you post the url for his String resource generator or if you know anything that is similar please post it. thank ...
I am interested in using some kind of a command-line utility for SQL Server similar to Oracle's SQL*Plus. SQL Server seems to have several options: osql, isql, and sqlcmd. However, I am not quite certain which one to use. Do they all essentially do the same thing? Are there any situations where it is preferable to use one over the other...
We're contemplating Visual Studio licensing and need to decide whether licenses for Architecture/Database/Test editions are necessary. Does anyone have enough experience with these tools to say whether they are useful? I'd love some specific examples. I'll also accept links to non Microsoft sites that provide some sort of overview of ...
I have a some .py files that use spaces for indentation, and I'd like to convert them to tabs. I could easily hack together something using regexes, but I can think of several edge cases where this approach could fail. Is there a tool that does this by parsing the file and determining the indentation level the same way the python inter...
Putting aside the fact that one is open-source, which tool is more feature rich and performant for SVN support within Visual Studio. ...
What are best tools available for Data Capturing from Scanned Images? Doesn't matter they are free or paid. They should be able to convert scanned images to data (text, image, tables etc.). Most importantly they should have API to integrate with .NET 2.0 for automation. Edit: The input data will generally be Text, Images, Tables places...
I'm known around the office as "the backup guy". As a developer, I often jump back and forth between projects, and as a result I don't always remember exactly what changes were present in each when I return to them. I usually have to compare my local changes versus those in our source control system, and then I'll eventually remember it ...
Some people have suggested that when doing an estimate one should make a lower and upper range on the expected time to delivery. The few project tools I have seen, seem to demand one fixed date. Are there any tools that support this concept of a estimation range? ...
I'm trying to use the freeware Multiple Find And Replace 1.00 suggested in this question. Unfortunately it requires that I explicitly select each file I'd like it to search. But, it does allow me to load in a text file of the file paths. C:\one.txt C:\two.txt C:\somedirectory\three.txt I'd like a text file of paths to all files...
what is the best tool (open or commercial) currently available, that lets me send customized requests to a web server and get back a response to check the performance? i will be sending it a load of more than 20K per second, but i need to get numbers for each call made. also, the numbers might be in some microseconds or nanoseconds. Ho...
Given a file tree - a directory with directories in it etc, what software would you recommend to create a diagram of the file-tree as a graphic file that I can embed in a word processor document I prefer vector (SVG, EPS, EMF...) files. The tool must run on Windows, but preferably cross-platform. The tool may be commercial but preferabl...
Hi I recently upgraded to Eclipse Ganymede from Europa and now I'm finding that when I'm editing JSP files the IDE crawls when editing HTML attributes (but not JSP attributes). Has anyone experienced this, or have any suggestions? Also if you can point me to a better place to ask Eclipse related questions, do tell. Thanks! ...
I've been looking for profiling tools for Rails for a while. I'm currently playing and testing ruby-prof and railsbench, but I kinda frustrated with the amount of tweaking and mangling required to make then work. Althought I don't mind (much) the tweaking, I'd like to know if is there any other, more straight-forward and easy to use, to...