The situation: I work for a manufacturing company which uses several pieces of in-house software to mass customize our product. The system uses a home grown .NET 1.1 KBE (knowledge based engineering) backend, a .NET 2.0 web interface for quoting and ordering, and a DOS based tool from the late 80s/early 90s for creating AutoCAD drawings...
Is there any tool to generate test data based on specific requirements? e.g. Size, file type ...
I have tried SQLite in Java, but the speed is slow due to the JDBC driver. Then I tried HSQLDB and thought the speed is good, but I cannot find a good management tool for HSQLDB such as phpMyAdmin for MySQL or SQLite Manager for SQLite. I'd like to use the manager tool to prepare the test data for unit tests, or use the manager tool to ...
I have an application on a Windows CE device that tries to receive data over a serial port. This isn't working and now I'm looking for some simple application to run on that device that'd let me check if there is any data coming in. Is there something like HyperTerminal that let's me monitor a serial port on mobile devices? Best would p...
I was listening to a podcast recently (may have been SO - can't remember) when the interviewee said that one of the reasons Java was so successful and popular was the tooling. Having use of great FOSS editors such as Eclipse, NetBeans. Metrics tools such as Cobertura, Find Bugs, Build tools such as Maven and ANT.. I'd have to agree I'v...
Duplicate: How do you track your hours? Best tools for time tracking? Although this question isn't strictly program related, I think a lot of developers are often put into a position to quickly recap what we've been up to. I'd like hear recommendations for a free, easy-to-use online time-logging tool. Nothing fancy, must...
I am currently working on batch processing application using MSMQ in C#. In the application design, I have an error queue containing XML messages using the ActiveXFormatter. I know that I can write an application to write these error messages to text files or database tables. Are there other pre-built tools available allowing you to ...
A good friend just sent me the following email My father is putting together a proposal for a local college to start a center of innovation and technology. As part of that, he’s proposing they teach web design and web development. My question is in your opinion what are the “industry standard” tools for both web design and web develo...
I'm doing maintenance of a few branches of middle-size C++ project (~15k files for each branch). Very often I have to search all project files for given string or regex. Currently I'm using Total Commander which has all features I want (case-sensitive, regexes, filename masks) but this tool scans all files every time, so it takes a bit t...
Hi, I need to find some good tools for designing UI. I need only the design part, I don't need any code generation or anything like that... It would be nice to find some freeware ;) tia ...
Sphinx is a new documentation tool for Python. It looks very nice. What I'm wondering is: How suitable this is for documenting a C++ project? Are there any tools for converting existing documentation (e.g. doxygen) to Sphinx format? Are there online/downloadable examples of C++ projects that use Sphinx? Any tips from anyone who has use...
Whenever I see a problem that would be shared by others, with a solution that would be fun to implement, it usually turns out to have been solved already. I think it's best to stop myself and do a search before I dive into the coding. Here's the situation: You can copy and paste sections of an office document into the visual studio HTML...
I'm looking for some recommendations for website tools to ensure that deployed sites are always live and available. Ideally, I'd like to have a decent reporting / messaging mechanism from it to report when any faults occur. I've considered using CruiseControl and having some custom .Net libraries ping each site and analyse the response ...
As with many developers in small or mid sized shops, I have to put on my designer hat from time to time. I can't really justify buying something like CS4 or other designer tools. I do currently have a small tool bag of helpful, free tools like Paint.NET IconExtract ColorCop Are there any other good ones out there that I should chec...
For example DbVisualizer can be used to connect to a DB and create nice diagram out of existing tables and their relations. But in this specific case I do not have a live database but I have bunch of create table and alter statements. Is there any tool to generate similar diagrams out of SQL DDL? ...
Hi I'm looking for data mining tools for a project and in line with that I have put up another post in SO. I'm currently looking at different tools and am wondering whether any industry benchmark exists to asses different data mining tools so that I can refer it do a better evaluation of tools. Please let me know if any such benchmark ...
I want to make a fairly simple Flash application that will play a slideshow of still images while audio plays in synch with the images. The application will need to change slides according to the timing of the audio. It also would be nice if I could give the user a control to pause and resume. The catch is that I do my development on ...
I find programming in PHP quite frustrating. Quite often I will try and run the script and just get a blank screen back. No error message, just empty screen. The cause might have been a simple syntax error (wrong bracket, missing semicolon), or a failed function call, or something else entirely. It is very difficult to figure out what w...
What (not yet existing) iPhone apps do developers wish to get more productive? Let's do some brainstorming ;-) ...
In Rob Conery's post about SubSonic Migrations written in October 2007 he mentions in the 'Left To Do' list that: I want to be able to “Reverse Engineer” an existing DB into a migration file I am looking at introducing versioning control for an existing database with a lot tables, and SubSonic looks like the tool for me, but I'...