This might be more of a serverfault.com question but a) it doesn't exist yet and b) I need more rep for when it does :~) My employer has a few hundred servers (all *NIX) spread across several locations. As I suspect is common we don't really know how many servers we have: more than once I've been surprised to find a server that's been u...
Here's a common situation: you have an existing application with large codebase and you hire a new developer to the development team. From my experience, it can take up to 6 months before that developer becomes fully productive. In the process the developer will cost much more than its' salary by taking the time of other team members and...
I have a WCF service deployed on production. I'm looking for a tool to forward a 'Copy' of all the messages received by that service to a development server. I need this to debug the requests in my IDE on the Dev box. ...
Is there a program/tool/utility that would allow me to generate all possible character combinations (lowercase, uppercase, symbols, numbers) over a given length of characters (min-max) ...
I am working on a library where we want to determine how much of our library is being used. I.E. we want to know how many methods in our library are public, but never being called. Goal: Static Analysis Determine how many lines of code call each public method in package A in the current project. If the number of calls is zero, the metho...
Hi, What are the common things you remove when clearing up your source tree? For instance: Deleting bin/obj/debug/release directories Removing temporary/cache files, such as ReSharper cache files Removing source control files/directories, such as _svn and .svn Also, what are the things you commonly do with your source tree? For in...
In all of the slides and doumentation for new APIs, design concepts, and models I see some nice graphics used to represent them. EDIT: Here is a sample of the kind of diagram I would like to produce. In the past I have used Visio, Word, PowerPoint, but I never seem to like working with them or be able to produce the same kind of beaut...
I have a few of our senior QA engineers in town for a few days and I am in the process of prepping them for testing an app that we are porting to Linux and OS X. These guys are smart. While they are not programmers they do understand things like how to open memory dumps to find the function pointer, and write simple python to help autom...
I need a free tool or some kind of tip/technique to compare the structure of two Microsoft SQL databases. Preferably MS SQL 2005. The technique I tried to make work was generating scripts from both databases and then comparing the two files but SQL Server generates object in random order. ...
Is there a tool like Reflector for COM libraries? I would like to open a COM library and browse the classes and interfaces just like in Reflector. I would rather not install Visual Basic 6.0 in order to do this, if possible. ...
Hi, i just wondered if there are any alternative tools out there like Pex for automatic generating boundary conditions for unit tests (should work with NUnit)? Personally i would prefer using Pex, but the license conditions from Microsoft Research Labs do not allow commercial use under Visuals Studio 2008 Professional (what does not mak...
SharePoint 2007 (WSS or MOSS) logs are not easy to read even on a large screen, has anyone come across a log viewer that is able to: Display SharePoint logs live and historical Filter the events by various parameters Cope with SharePoint's log rotation A subset of the above features would be acceptable, as would a range of tools eith...
Is there any tool which displays at runtime, Page Faults delta on a per thread basis? Basically I have an application that is causing lots of page faults and I want to nail down the thread which is causing the maximum. ...
Hi , From where can the ASP.NET RADKit for Endeca downloaded from ? Thank You Jewel ...
I am working on an SDK. As I release new versions I would like to produce a report of the differences in the API. This is not the differences in the code. Most of the code is not expected to be used directly. The public classes/methods is what I am interested in. Furthermore, we have adopted the convention that anything in a namespa...
Are there any free tools to automatically create UML diagrams from an existing .Net/Visual Studio 2005 projects? ...
I'm just implemented a proper logging system for media browser, there are so many logging frameworks to choose from, some are heavier, some are lighter but at the end of the day moving data from the application on to the disk is an easy problem. Are there any open source log viewers? I would much prefer one built using C# or VB.Net i...
Is there any free HTML creating documentation tool that fully understands Delphi 2009 features like generics and anonymous methods? I tried DelphiCodeToDoc but it crashes while parsing the source code. ...
When using Workflow Foundation with persistence there comes a point we want to drop some (or all) workflows out of it which no longer should be persisted/run. Any script/tool that I can use for this? ...
Hi there I'm just curious. Do you know any tool which can count all the code lines from a PHP project? Many thx! ...