tools

Are there add-on libraries or tools available for ASP.NET MVC development?

My first experience with ASP.NET MVC and the Entity Framework has raised my interest in this framework and I would like to implement some basic applications, covering the basic requirements of real-world web applications. So far the support given by VS 2008 is already impressive. For some areas however, it might be a time saver to use ex...

IDE for PHP development and Drupal?

What tools are available for developing PHP programs. I'm particularly looking for something that can hook into Drupal so you can step through code and add breakpoints. Basically, a Visual Studio for PHP would be the best. Anyone know of this? Can you guys maybe mention what you currently use (even if it's just mentioning the text editor...

What group collaboration/information tools are useful?

Being part of a company with hundreds (if not thousands) of developers arrayed over a wide range of projects, it can be very hard to get the information you need from the right person about a piece of software you are working on. What kinds of tools (and practices) have you found useful for finding answers, knowledge transfer, documentat...

Suggest a good story boarding tools for flash development.

Are there any good, easy to use storyboarding tools to build rough animations before passing them on to flash designers? ...

Tool to enforce python code style/standards

I'm trying to find a tool to check for coding style in python. For php I've seen there is the Code Sniffer, and a small perl script used by Drupal. Is there such a tool for python code? Thanks ...

What tool can I use to generate a PHP class usage report for my application?

I have a fairly large object-oriented php 5 project, and as part of a change impact analysis, I'd like to compile a report on the usage of each existing class throughout the project. It would help me immensely if I could find an existing tool that will analyze all the files in my project and generate some sort of report that lists, for...

is there anyway to find unused css in a website.

trying to clean up a project i just inherited ...

Please Recommend a Simple Automated GUI recording application?

I need to have an application simply record mouse gestures and keyboard strokes that will then be able to play this recording back. I will run this on a few computers on the network to simulate multi-users. The app does not need to create any output scripts or code I just want to run the recording over and over again. I'm not sure if...

Web script to click some buttons and save some html pages

I am trying to go through a site with a bunch of links. I click on a link, save the page, click on a button, save a page. Then go back and repeat it for a huge number of links. I want to write a script to do that for me. I know C++ but I want to do Javascript for this, what is a good place to get me started? What would be a good IDE to u...

Test discovery tool for .NET

Is there a tool for automated test discovery for .NET. I am using the Visual Studio unit testing stuff and wanted functionality similar to Python Nose. I need to have a tool automatically discover all the unit test available and run for example the ones "marked" as unit and in different scenarios run the tests "marked" as Integration a...

Problem with DBDesigner

Hi everyone. The DBDesigner can synchronize only with MySQL? I tried with SQL Server but don't works. DBDesigner Ver: 4.0.5.6 Tks. ...

Is there a way to view the source of a web page AFTER all jquery scripts have run?

I currently use Chrome/Firefox for my web development. Is there a plugin, or am I just another way, where you can view the HTML source AFTER all jQuery plug-ins have run? I just want to see what and how jQuery modified the HTML? ...

Open source test report generation tool

Background The QA department where I work has a lot of automated blackbox tests that interact with our applications via the GUI and the command line. Currently, the automated tests output their results to standard out where we then manually enter the final pass/fail result into a spreadsheet. We would prefer to have a system where th...

Speeding up web development

Situation I have been working on a project lately where the UI development seems to be way too time consuming. In this case, the "Business Rules" on the server-side are much more complicated than the presentation aspects as far as a Computer Science or complexity perspective. I've found myself scratching/banging my head against the wa...

Simple reporting framework for asp.net with xml, xsl and css

Hi, I am searching for a simple framework/library in C#/for asp.net to generate "simple reports" in asp.net. My requirements are: My data are delivered in xml I want to use css and xsl the reports should be as reusable as possible Any ideas or experiences? Thanks in advance & best regards Stefan ...

Extreme Programming for Distributed Teams Tools and Advice

A group of us are starting a new project and are working in a distributed fashion. Our intention is to use agile development methodologies and in particular Extreme Programming (XP). This is intended as a learning experience, but while some of us have experience with XP in a "traditional" team none of us has experience doing XP with a re...

showing differences within a line in diff output

This StackOverflow answer has an image of KDiff3 highlighting intra-line differences. Does someone know of a tool which can show the same (ex, via color) on the command line? Another way to think of this is wanting to diff each difference in a patch file. ...

C++ with Eclipse without a tool chain?

I have a C++ project that has to build on Linux but I don't have a Linux machine set up to run any kind of GUI (they all have no monitors). So the question is, can I use eclipse to develop via a file share and build via SSH? I've been doing this and aside from putting lots of ware on alt+tab the only problem seems to be that auto-complet...

Is there a tool for extracting all variable, module, and function names from a Perl module file?

My apologies if this is a duplicate; I may not know the proper terms to search for. I am tasked with analyzing a Perl module file (.pm) that is a fragment of a larger application. Is there a tool, app, or script that will simply go through the code and pull out all the variable names, module names, and function calls? Even better would ...

Automatically port conversion elements of C code to C++

Hi, Is there some tool that can automatically convert the following c style code A *a = b; to A *a = (A*)b; Thanks, James ...