In the near future, I will be inheriting a somewhat large project. I've been making some small updates to it recently, and noticed that parts of it could use some refactoring, since there are methods that perform the same operation with a small difference. I was wondering if there is a tool that will take a bunch of source code and f...
I'm looking for a good, preferably free tool for automating tests of a java (EJB3) application without any kind of GUI. Tool should be capable of at least: Inserting / updating / deleting data on database Querying and comparing data on database Reading and writing to FTP server Initializing test environment, launching EJB3 bean, clean...
Do you know an integrated tool that will generate the call graph of a function from Python sources? I need one that is consistent and can run on Windows OS. ...
What is the best tool for showing source codes on the Web ? with Syntax highlighting , in color - Line-Numbers Asp.Net ...
Hi I seem to be at an ORM Tool crossroad and would like some advice of people who have faced a similar challenge. In the past I have been using CodeSmith with NetTiers Templates to generate my DAL all has been quite good, however I have decided to drop this for one reason or another. So I am at a crossroads and have found the following:...
Hi, I have wanted to try GAE since launch, but coming from ASP .NET and VS, I couldn't find development tools I feel comfortable with. As I want to use this to get comfortable with non-Microsoft technologies, I don't care which language I use, be it Java or Python, plus having no idea about any of them I hope this is a good form of ta...
Is there a diff tool that allows saving of the compare markup? To clarify, I would like to save the actual comparison of the two files that shows the differences to send to someone for review. EDIT Lots of good answers here. In my case I already had a copy of Beyond Compare but didn't see the option. Thanks to John Saunders for poin...
I am toying with the idea of giving agile software development teams budgets that they can spend to improve velocity. A typical agile team has 5-9 people. I want to get a sense of how they might spend the budget. If you wanted to improve software development on your team (no matter what software process/framework you use) and you had ...
I'm a long-time C++ programmer developing on Windows, and have been using Visual Studio for developing unmanaged C++. In the past 2-3 months, for the first time, I have been exposed to the world of C# and Java. Man, I'm astounded by the productivity gain! In particular: C# and Java have so many cool tools (TestDriven.NET, NetBeans I...
Is there a tool available which will convert source code in Perl to source code in C? Any platform is fine. ...
So, I started learning to code in Python and later Django. The first times it was hard looking at tracebacks and actually figure out what I did wrong and where the syntax error was. Some time has passed now and some way along the way, I guess I got a routine in debugging my Django code. As this was done early in my coding experience, I s...
I have a very large project with tons of convoluted header files that all include each other. There's also a massive number of third-party libraries that it depends on. I'm trying to straighten out the mess, but I'm having some trouble, since a lot of the time I'll remove one #include directive only to find that the stuff it was includ...
I'm starting a new .Net project, and I would like to know your recommendation for tools to use. In general, I would like to have the following: Somebody should be able to check out the project and build it with nothing more than mono or .Net installed It should build on as many platforms as possible (or at least Windows and Linux) Som...
It is so easy to get interested in something (including Stackoverflow) and lose a total track of time doing it, even when you have a lot of things to do. What tools and techniques do you use to track your time. I have come across hamster-applet, promodoro technique. RescueTime seems a nice tool to introspect, but there is no proper fro...
is there any .Net Application performance monitoring tool? I've an application in C#.net stand alone application. I've to look at the performance of that application. Performance in the sense memory,CPU usage and loading etc... ...
Hi I have an application, which performs some custom data gathering, transformation and reporting. Currently, the only way to set up and configure all the steps is to fill some large and cumbersome WinForms screens. What I'd like to do is to make a lightweight and user-friendly visual editor, where "blocks" will show data sources, data...
Is there a tool available that can scan code and check for possible null reference exceptions, i.e. where there is no code to check for null before calling a method / accessing a property? ...
I'd like to know what languages and tools (debuggers, IDEs, profilers, libraries, etc) are available for those wanting to develop for Palm Pre. Also, I'd like to know what technological restrictions exists that one has to be aware of. ...
I'm refactoring some code in C++, and I want to deprecate some old methods. My current method for finding all of the methods looks like this: Comment out the original method in the source file in which I'm working. Try to compile the code. If a compiler error is found, then make a note comment out the call and try to recompile. Once th...
Hello, I'm starting in C++ development, but i like to use Gedit for writing the files, but like for Ruby on Rails and many other languages, are some tools and configurations for Gedit that makes develop more easy and comfortable, and another question, what is the best for C++, SVN, CVS, Git and others...? Thanks, and sorry about my engl...