I often find myself needing to do some simple screen scraping for internal purposes (i.e. a third party service I use only publishes reports via HTML). I have at least two or three cases of this now. I could use apache httpclient and create all the necessary screen scraping code but it takes a while. Here is my usual process: Open up C...
The unix tee command splits the standard input to stdout AND a file. What I need is something that works the other way around, merging several inputs to one output - I need to concatenate the stdout of two (or more) commands. Not sure what the semantics of this app should be - let's suppose each argument is a complete command. Exampl...
I'm looking for a free UML tool that runs on Windows and lets me create simple diagrams very fast, with as little mouse fiddling as possible. I have no need for code generation or fancy stuff, just UML style boxes with arrows. What I would like is something that for example lets me add a new class with a keyboard shortcut and lets me e...
Does anyone know a decent tool that will compare two different versions of the same dll and extract the differences? thanks ...
Is there any way to use a query and join two tables that is in two different database on the same server for DbVisualizer? I used the following for the SQL server Select * from table union select * from datbase.dbo.table2 I tried this for the DbVisualizer, and it didnt work. How do I do this? ...
I'm looking for recommendations of a good, free tool for generating sample data for the purpose of loading into test databases. By analogy, something that produces "lorem ipsum" text for any RDBMS. Features I'm looking for include: Flexibility to generate data for an existing table definition. Ability to generate small and large data...
I'm searching for a good ASP.NET Unit Testing tool. Googling gives me some tools, but I would like to get started with a good tool. Any experience with these tools? Is there a way to do ASP.NET Unit Tests with the build-in Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2008? ...
I'm wondering if anyone knows about a working command line tool for linux to download using premium account on rapidshare. I've seen a python solution, which does not work for me -- returns urllib2 error message urlopen error unknown url type: https and my knowledge of python is not yet deep enough to figure out why: might be a recent...
I'm starting a new project soon and I'd like to try to use some better tools this time around. The last project, I wrote all my Database creation SQL by hand for MySQL. I'm hoping there are some good tools out there for creating, maintaining and modifying database schema in MySQL. My budget is out-of-my-own-pocket, so free (as in beer) w...
I have been Coding in C# for about 3/5 Years in School. the problem is that i want to learn how you code such things as Keylogger and things like that. in School it most Problem Solving to learn us to think like programmers. so how shall i learn to code Network/Security tools. Shall i buy a book about Network programming in C#? Or do ...
I need a command line tool to dump standard Windows DLL version info so I can process it by means of a bash script (Cygwin). As a Java developer I am not very used to Microsoft development tools (though I have a little bit of experience with Microsoft Visual Embedded C++ 4.0 and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0). The appropriate tool seems t...
Is there a tool that, given a Java 5 level source code, will backport it to Java 1.4-compliant source code, by removing Generics declarations, transforming for eachs in simple fors or iteration fors, etc.? Please note that I am looking for a tool that translates source code to source code, not class binaries. ...
Dear All I am Using IETester for Checking the Multiple Version.Now If I need the Debug, Is there any Tools Available To Check the Script Error?in IE Similarly Is There any Equivalent Tool available for Firefox for checking multiple version in oneBox V1 v2 v3 etc .like IETester ...
Do you use any tool for writing tutorial style, or cookbook style documentation? How do you keep it up to date (e.g. changes in output, changes in signatures, changes in command line parameters,.. )? Right now I do everything manually, and it's a pain. I know the tools for producing reference docs, like Sandcastle and NDoc. That's not w...
I have to build an web app with a large amount of forms. Does anyone have a favourite tool to speed this development up? This isn't complicated but writing them by hand will take me ages... I've used wufoo in the past and like the interface, so short of any other suggestions I'll probably go with that ...
Everyone once in a while, I'm in a coffee shop without a network connection. I like having all the code and tools local on my laptop for these occasions. I checkout the code locally, run mysql locally, and pull down all the API documentation. What are some tools and tricks you use when you have no network? ...
What good tools can I use to monitor IIS. What is included seems to be not as useful as I'd like. I realize I can add performance counters; those don't tell me very much; it's just a collections of properties that are plugged into a generic graphing tool. I have problems with old legacy applications hanging and various and sundry other ...
First, some background: I will have to work on code for a JSP that will demand a lot of code fixing and testing. This JSP will receive a structure of given objects, and render it according to a couple of rules. What I would like to do, is to write a "Test Server" that would read some mock data out of a fixtures file, and mock those obj...
As i code with Resharper, I sometimes wonder if i will always need it. When i turn this devilish tool off, i find as if someone "took away my powers". Should i be worried? ...
Has anyone ever used Oracle Database Migration Verifier tool (DMV)? It's a tool to analyze the source database and compare it against the migrated Oracle database. I have installed the JDBC driver for Microsoft SQL Server. Then, I have edited the property file and run the command java -jar dmv.jar PropertiesFilePath ReportStorePath, w...