I know there are a large number of CASE tools out there, some better than others, but what are the ones used by those in the field, and why do you use those specific tools? In this case, I am just interested in CASE tools for database design, and more specifically, ones that will let me "draw" the schema diagram, and then will create th...
I've been giving a talk recently on a plethora of Open Source (some are borderline open-source, I'll admit) debugging tools and the audiences have been making great additions to my list. I'd like to gather the knowledge (and give credit) to the oft-brilliant StackOverflow crowd on this same question. There are no WebService/Java/.Net/H...
We are looking for ways to further improve our software development process through proper documentation. However, being a document, these documentation/specification are only available whenever we open and read it. For example, URS, SRS, ERD, DB Diagram, Class Diagram, Use Case, Test Scripts, User Manual and Training materials usually...
I have a website written in PHP under source control (SVN). I would like to move at once all my files from the website directory to production server. The problem is that in this folder there are folders of SVN (.svn). The second problem is that i do not want to put on the server only files under source control, but also other in this f...
This is somewhat related to a similar post, but that post was Visual Studio 6 in general and a lot of the suggestions didn't apply to VB6. Suggest or vote for tools/tips. Please one tool/tip per post so that everyone can vote on them individually. Include a brief description of what the tools do. ...
I work on a fairly complex Open Source project (opensimulator.org). It's currently sitting around 300 KLOC of C#, and there are a number of places where code has built up to trap and ignore exceptions, which end up disguising subtle bugs. I'm wondering what tools are out there that can produce reports of overly general exception catchin...
What are some good .NET code documentation tools? Any good documentation tools which are free and you can have online documentation for your .NET code would be useful. ...
Hi fellas, Can you recommend some nicely developed terminal multiplexer. ...
any GUI Admin / Management tool for SVN repository on windows? please suggest. thanks in advance ...
I once ran across a commercial tool for Windows that allowed you to "stash" code changes outside of source control but now I can't remember the name of it. It would copy the current version of a document to a backup location and undo your checkout in source control. You could then reintroduce your backed up changes later. I believe it wo...
My work PC, Home PC, and laptop all have different keyboards. I find my hands wanting to do the wrong thing all the time. Also I have to log into multiple servers with different versions of vi, vim, emacs, bash, ksh, I do not have the luxury of staying in one IDE or environment. vi appears to me to be the best editor of choice given t...
Have you ever used any tools which helps in analyzing design itself? Though design is mostly compared to art, is there any tool which directly analyzes or helps in analyze existing design? Note : Though mostly I am interested in Java, anything is fine. ...
I feel fortunate that I have been given an opportunity to improve code practices in my office by starting to implement some internal code reviews which could start out as some simple checklist. I need suggestions on tools and general tips. I went to school for SoftE and understand the process of classic software development. I then wo...
I have a series of files named filename.part0.tar, filename.part1.tar, filename.part8.tar. I guess tar can create multiple volumes when archiving, but I can't seem to find a way to unarchive them on Windows. I've tried to untar them using 7zip (GUI & commandline), WinRAR, tar114 (which doesn't run on 64-bit Windows), WinZip, and ZenTar...
Hi, I have 2 source trees, one is very similar to the other (one is VC6 and one is VS2005). I need a program that can recursively diff the source trees and tell me which files are different. However I want to be able to define 'how different' the files are. So I want to be able to ignore all files that are less than 5% different. I'd a...
I've been working with a lot of semi-complicated XSD's lately and am wondering: What are some of the better tools for working with XML schema? Are there any graphical tools? Standalone or Eclipse-based are ideal as we aren't a .net shop. ...
I deleted some records in tables which are interconnected with other tables with foreign keys, so somehow I succeded to delete some records which I would not be able to delete (FK constraint). Now I cannot delete records in main tables (to which FK refers). Anyway, I was trying to drop table, drop index, nothing helps. Is there any too...
I have a large code base and there is lots of repeated, or nearly repeated code all over the place, it's about as unDRY as code can get, but tracking the "duplicates" is hard, so I was wondering if there are any tools for finding potential DRYable code, something like a diff tool or a Hamming distance analizer, don't need language specif...
Though I currently have Elements of ML Programming and have found it very helpful, I am struggling to find other good resources and development tools. What resources do you use when programming in SML? What IDE (is there one?) or implementation do you use? Thanks in advanced. ...
I am looking for an IE 6 / 7 plug-in or something like Firebug_Lite thing that can show the memory usage in runtime, as well as the allocation of memory of each object or variable. Anyone know what tool has this functionality? Thanks. ...