tools

Populating a Visual DSL with database information.

Hello Guys, I have the following problem to solve: Currently we have a metadata tree of the databse schema that has a in-memory representation and a proprietary schema XML serialization as well (that is we can read/write all the in-memory data to an xml file). Currently I am developing a Visual DSL solution (diagram-like), to allow ...

Adobe air log capturing tools?

What is a good tool for capturing the logs from adobe air application? I'm looking for something that can capture the log from an air application when it runs (and ideally when it crashes). I'm looking for something like Bugsplat (http://www.bugsplatsoftware.com/) for c/c++ as for adobe air/actionscript. Thanks! ...

Live element attribute editing in IE7

Is there anything for IE that would allow me to edit attributes of DOM elements live, like Firebug does for Firefox? So far, I have only found DOM inspectors - Developer Toolbar, DebugBar, Firebug Lite. None of them allow editing the elements, only looking up/highlighting them :( ...

VSTS Test Edition or HP's LoadRunner?

I have had this debate with some peers off and on for a while. I am certified in the HP tools, but have been spending more and more time with VSTS Test Edition 2008. I am looking for opinions on what people think of the future of both products and how they compete. LoadRunner's strengths include its vast array of protocols supported. ...

How can I compare similar codebases?

We have several C++ projects that were built from the same codebase. There's a lot of similarities and common code between them but they were developed independently; source was not shared in any way. Classes and files will have been renamed even if the underlying code hasn't changed and individual lines will have been tweaked, changed a...

Do you employ any tools for managing technical debt?

The site I work with on a day-to-day basis has its share of shortcomings and we often make design decisions to "get us by right now" with the intention of fixing those up later. I've found that making the time to actually go back and fix them, let alone remembering what the full list of to-do items is can be challenging at best. Can yo...

Simple GUI Design Tool for modeling relationships between rectangles

I'm building a test technology for verifying web implementations against a specification. For this, I need a lite, easy to use, GUI design tool which allows me to create rectangles and define relationships between them. I imagine the tool would have a CAD-like interface. Since I'm modeling web designs, I want to constrain the user so t...

Looking for something better than Zemanta and Apture

I'm looking for some tool like Zemanta or Apture to embed in a self developed cms, but I wonder if does exist something less tricky. From a end user point of view, Apture (www.apture.com) does a fantastic job, but its javascript layer on top of the web page (bad solution, to me) and the fact that there isn't any plugin available for FC...

Unix tools in GUI for Windows

I'm a Windows user and would really like to have the power of the Unix command-line for things to speed up programming. (clean up datafiles, search for occurrences of things in files, file/folder operations/ etc.) Now I know that using Cygwin and a few ports, I could use these command-line tools in Windows as well. However, the idea of...

Demo email sending and receiving locally using a mail server

I have a upcoming demo of a product that (amongst other things) sends email alerts. I don't know if I'll have an Internet connection for this demo. I also need to be able to fire up something like Outlook Express and view these alerts. So I have come to the conclusion that I need to install some sort of small mail server to send the ma...

Diff/Compare Tool That Lets Me Write Comments On Differing Lines

I'm looking for a diff/compare tool that shows differing lines from two text files, and gives me a space to comment on those files. Ideally this application would have three panes, pane one would be file A, pane two would file B and pane three would be a comment I can enter to on why the files are different. We're going to be using this...

Query tool for Oracle 9

I'm used to the comfort of working with MSSQL and the Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer. Now working with Oracle 9.2 and having to suffer using SQL Plus for making queries, I'm looking for some better alternatives. Are there any free or low-cost tools for this purpose? ...

ASP.NET - Free Testing Tools

. Hi, We have built an ASP.NET application and we would like to do functional, regression, load , and stress etc. tests. Would you please let me know if there are any free tools to these tests? Thanks and Regards.. Shruthi Keerthi.. . ...

How do you create/edit .mxp

How does one go about creating/editing .mxp extensions? I am not familiar with them and scouring the web just gives me 'here download mine'. I would like to know what tool/language to use to create them. Specifically i want to create extensions for DreamWeaver. I am familiar with many programming languages (.NET, Script, ActionScript...

What is in your JavaScript toolchain?

I am looking to start writing a sophisticated application in JavaScript to run on the web. I've written little bits of throwaway code in JavaScript before, using the DOM directly and a little bit of jQuery. But this is the first time I'm looking to write a full-fledged application to run in the browser. So, I'm wondering what toolchains...

Tool to display html as a hierarchy

I am working on a crawler and as a result, I need to look at the HTML of the site I will crawl, to make assumptions (Which will be soft coded). HTML of large sites is not easy to read. Is there a tool which can display the HTML in some sort of tree-like hierarchy? Thanks ...

Should developers be limited to certain software for development?

Should developers be limited to certain applications for development use? For most, the answer would be as long as the development team agrees it shouldn't matter. For a company that is audited for security certifications, is there a method that balances the risk of the company and the flexibility, performance of the developers? Scope...

jquery tools: tooltip and tabs not playing together

im using jquery tools. im trying to put tooltips on the inputs of the form which is in the a tab. this is my script: <script> // perform JavaScript after the document is scriptable. $(function() { // initialize tooltips $("#UserContactPerson").tooltip({ // place tooltip on the right edge position: "center right", // ...

Form empty input

Hi, I'm using the jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library. For tooltip on all input fields I do $("#univers :input").tooltip({ effect: 'slide', position: "center right", offset: [-2, 10], effect: "fade", opacity: 0.5, tip: '.tooltip' }); But I would like to show tooltip only if input field is empty. So I did ...

Can I get intellisense in powershell?

Just starting out with powershell, I would love to have intellisense support for writing powershell scripts. Tab-completion works great so you would think it would exist somewhere, but the only thing I can find when Googling is an article from 2007 - hardly up to date. Is there an extension somewhere that gives you this ability? How a...