I work for a mid-sized corporation that is actually doing quite well in this economic morass. Although we have newer workstations, there are several tools/concepts that I'm certain would increase productivity and job satisfaction among our developing workforce. I'm looking for strategies here. My immediate boss isn't willing to take u...
I've inherited a PHP application that has "versions" of pages (viewacct.php, viewacct2.php, viewacct_rcw.php, etc). I want to discover which of these pages are called from other pages in the application and which are not. Is there a tool available that will help with that? ...
Moving from Oracle to PostgreSQL, what (preferably free/OSS) software/tools are available that replace Oracle Enterprise Manager? I'm aware of pgAdmin, as well as some tools bundled into EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus AS, but am looking for more context and a better overview of the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Specifically I'm interested in tool...
Should I use VS 2008 refactoring support or buy ReSharper? What are some of really good things you can do using ReSharper that cannot be done using VS 2008 refactoring support? ...
I am planning to write a bug tracking tool for a company. I haven't committed to the project yet, but I would like to know your thoughts. I am pretty good at C++ and am learning C# now. I know some Javascript as well. How much time would it take for developing a basic bug tracking tool? (With myself and a junior developer working on it)...
Today I gave in to all the banners asking me to test MS Expression web 2 demo. After some setup hickups I fired up the thing and immediately encountered a problem: How do I make this tool work with my asp.net-mvc projects? Actually, how do I make my websites work with ANY tool but visual studio 2008? Untill now I did everything with VS2...
I am using WIX at the moment, but keep on running into limitations (such as ability to expand properties as the value of another property). Also not sure if I ran into a bug with the FileSearch element, because it is not working as expected (does not find a file that is definitely there). I can go the route of using custom actions built ...
I'm running a webapp using the included tomcat server in NetBeans. NetBeans shows me the Tomcat log in the output window, but I also want to see my webapp's log. Is this possible? Can I configure NetBeans to do this? I can't find any options in the server or project settings so far... ...
Hey all, I am just wondering if its possible to trace MySQL queries on my linux server as they happen? For example I'd love to set up some sort of listener, then request a web page and view all of the queries the engine executed, or just view all of the queries being run on a production server. Are there tools to do this? Thank you, ...
I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool where I could send a fully formed HTTP body ( headers & content ) to a web server. So far the best I've got is putty but was hoping for something where I could look @ and edit the payload then click a button and send it. ( I could probably write something like this in a couple minutes but was ho...
Subversion, Git, Mercurial and others support three-way merges (combining mine, theirs, and the "base" revision) and support graphical tools to resolve conflicts. What tool do you use? Windows, OSX, Linux, free or commercial, you name it. Here's a few that I've used or heard of, just to get the conversation started: kdiff3, DiffMerge,...
This site has been great for me to learn what's out there for programming tools and libraries. I'm wondering what are some promising tools/libraries/algorithms -- in any areas of programming or software engineering -- that are in alpha or beta right now that I should keep my eyes on when they get released. Some ones that come to mind to...
I'm thinking of writing a domain specific language (DSL) to model business objects. The DSL will not be executed, instead it will be used by a template based code generator (probably CodeSmith) to generate the .NET & SQL. The DSL will need to support the definition of the following elements: Classes (name & description) Properties (na...
I've been working with SVN for a couple of years and recently been working on some projects involving Trac. It might seem odd for most of you but I come from design oriented background where those tools are not so often used. For the moment we mostly use Basecamp to keep track of client requirements, documents etc. And on the other han...
Hello, i want to create some simple wrapper classes for an existing class library. To make the syntax nice to read AND nice to guess (via code completion) i'd like to remove the methods of java.lang.Object. The problem is that all non-atomic things in java inherit from Object and thus have these methods. I already tried to create the wr...
I'm using Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express to learn a native API for a new project. What I'm wondering is: what productivity features present in the full version that you take for granted are missing from Visual Studio Express? I'm not referring to large "paid" features like MFC support - I'm thinking of small features (sometimes provided...
Is there any other MS Access DB comparison tool like Cross-Database comparator? I want a tool that does a mass comparison like CDB ...
I'm searching for a User Interface Design tool to visualize a possible GUI in a documentation. I must not generate code. I know that Microsoft Visio provides a functionality. But are there any alternatives? Which software do you use for visualizing a GUI? Thank you in advance. Best regards from Switzerland Thomas PS. Another well-know...
I make extensive use of source control for anything that relates to a project I'm working on (source, docs etc.) and I've never lost anything that way. However, I have had two or three crashes (spread over the last 4 years) on my development machine that forced me to reinstall my system and reconfigure my apps (eclipse, vim, Firefox, et...
If you use google toolbar in your brower, you know what I am talking about. When the translator is enabled, it gives you the definition of a word when you move your mouse over the word. I am wondering whether a similar tool exists for PDF viewers. If it doesn't exist, how hard is it to create one? I am aware that in Adobe Reader you ca...