If you do not know what Pipe Viewer is (I did not know about it until 5 minutes ago), then this blog does a good job giving a brief introduction to it with some examples. I write a lot of Perl Scripts as an ETL developer and a lot of times, the files that I work with take really long time to operate with (unzipping, moving, etc). Therefo...
I'm trying to mirror files on FTP server. Those files can be very large so downloads might be interrupted. I'd like to keep the original files while downloading partial files to a temporary folder and once completed override local older versions. Can I do this? how? Is there another easy to use (command line) tool that I can use? ...
I'm writing some tech specs and I'm looking for a lightweight editor that will help with this. Currently, I am essentially repeating five formatting functions over and over: Normal Text Code Example Annotation (e.g. "TODO: reword this later") Headings Smallprint (inline reference to Func Spec section) Can anyone recommend a lightwei...
Pretend you're hitting me up for some javascript help on IM. How can you make it as easy as possible for me to help you get your code working? I run into this all the time. I'm on instant messenger and someone is asking me a question (or maybe it's me that's asking them) and we have lots of back-and-forth communication trying to work on...
Does anyone know a web based editor for the web.config? I want to offer the possibility of changing and adding settings through a nice web interface. Update: I am aware of the security issues but still i want to make it possible. The application is an internal app which is not available for outside. I configure authorization within web....
This question might edge on being an IT question, so please bear with me while the IT version of SO is not there yet. C'mon people, 3 "close" votes a few minutes after the question is up? What's so wrong with it? This might be a little sysadmin-ish, but hey, I really could be a lot more off-topic - and even get upvoted, as long as it'...
Hi guys, I'm a LAMP web developer in Perl and at my current place we use some black magic in using Perl to retrieve the data, throw them into a XML and then pass the XML to an XSL file. And this is all handled magically by the almighty AxKit. Thus you can probably imagine that my XSL is full of XSLT lines, i.e. if test,@value etc. I wa...
I develop a network based, multi-component software system that's designed to run on an arbitrary number of machines. I'm assuming a typical setup of 1 to 4 machines. I want to be serious about testing the system, and I have set up a network of virtual machines on a strong PC that I can use to simulate the network interaction. However, ...
I often have one document that needs different levels of depth for different "viewers". Typically we end up with different documents that need to be kept in sync, or color/format-marking relevance to different users. I wonder if there's another way to deal with that, if I am the only one stumbling over that, and how you deal with it. ...
Does anyone use a tool for code collaboration? We already have an existing system that manages our SDLC, so I don't want a separate system. I'm looking for a some tool to annotate code, with comments, that we can archive in our SDLC system. For instance, right now we're using MS Word with the built-in change-tracking and commenting. ...
I'm writing a tcp/ip client and I would need a "test server" to be able to test easily. It should listen on a configurable port, show me when a client connects and what the client sent, allow me to manually enter text to send to the client. It should work on Windows. Normally I would have use the simple but powerfull nc.exe (alias "Netc...
I just wanted to see if anyone is aware of any other debuggers capable of stepping through code. I am aware of xdebug and use it as well as Zend Debugger and other debugging scripts (i've written my own widgets for this already). However I am looking for a good replacement for step debugging - I've searched and searched but have yet to...
In podcast 40 one of the things mentioned was checking the difference between files in source control to see what was done the day before. Are there any good external tools - something I can open all by itself - that will show the diff on everything changed since the last check-in or within a given time frame on a single project? We'r...
Any recommendations? Dia and Vym come to mind, but they don't really fulfill the main requirement; i.e. to generate the SQL to create the ERD that I'm describing. ...
I'm looking for a tool to enforce coding styles, validation check for T-SQL script. And it recommends best-practice when appliable. In .net code domain, the tool for this purpose is FxCop. Is there a counterpart for T-SQL? It will be best it is free or open source tool. Anyone can shed some light? ...
Any online xml formatters? Ones that properly indent the tags. Or any free Windows text editor which has a built-in xml formatter? ...
I'm trying to find some good examples of semantic diff/merge utilities. The traditional paradigm of comparing source code files works by comparing lines and characters.. but are there any utilities out there (for any language) that actually consider the structure of code when comparing files? For example, existing diff programs will re...
I have several shell scripts, perl and java based processes running on a bunch of unix machines. I am looking for a dashboard like utility that can allow me to start, stop and monitor all these processes. right now, I have to do many of these jobs manually (e.g. each script sends me an email notification in the end indicating that it h...
Is there a way to profile IIS7? (freeware?) Number of connections Bandwidth usage Errors (Event Viewer?) -... thx, Lieven Cardoen ps: Something similar to mssqlserver profiling ...
I'm looking for a web app that would allow me to quickly sketch some prototype screens for a potential web app for users of this application. Is there a preferred tool for this kind of thing? Or, if not a web app, is there offline software for doing this? Should I just use something like Illustrator/Fireworks? ...