Software or tools recommended to improve fast your C++ programming skills.
List anything you think is great to improve c++ knowledge... Please be concrete when giving solutions. ...
tools
Faster way (keyboard shortcuts?) to use quick fixes in Eclipse?
I often use the Eclipse feature (Galileo) of suggested error corrections to automatically create code stubs or to refactor things. For example, I would write a method that calls other methods which don't exist yet, then move the mouse over the error message and click on "create method". Or, change this to the class name and choose "add s...
What is the best tool to allow web users to create flowcharts/diagrams?
I'm creating a web application in which teachers need to be able to easily create educational diagrams, flowcharts, basically: boxes and circles with text in them text labels ability to upload and embed graphics easy to make lines with arrows, etc. lots of ready-made icons and clipart would be nice free and opensource would be nice B...
Tools to manipulate doc file and convert them to pdf
Hello there, I am looking for some good tools (free or paid, though free tool is always preferred) for doing following operations on word doc files: Manipulation of doc/docx/text files (like replacing some placeholders with DB values) as well as converts doc files to .pdf Because, I will be using this tool in my WCF service library,...
Localizing an iPhone application
Hello fellow developers, I developed a namedays and birthdays reminder application called Eortes. There is also a free version of it called Eorteslite. The language as well as the namedays are in greek. More info here: http://sites.google.com/site/eortesapp/ I would like to localize these applications in other languages as well. 1) Wher...
Why don't analysis tools apply refactorings?
I am using fxCop and NDepend a lot at the moment, and I keep seeing the items their reports generate which are "wrong"1 and wondering to myself, why can't these tools just go and make those fixes they are suggesting? I get some are very hard to work out, but something like the fields should be marked readonly can very easily be applied...
Class dependency tool
I'm looking for a (preferably open source) tool that, given a large body of C/C++ code, will generate a visual or maybe XML graph of dependencies between classes (C++) and/or files (C). The idea would be that, if you had to convert the code to another language, you'd like to be able to get the lowest level classes compiling first, and b...
Are there useful static analysis tools for databases?
Is there a tool for examining the configuration and schema of a database for dubious fields, relationships and configuration, similar to how static analysis tools like lint will flag dubious lines of code? I'm not necessarily asking for normalization, but surely there's stupid stuff that can be detected without solving Hard AI or the Ha...
Please suggest me a tool to create a Domain Model diagram
Hi, Could someone please suggest me a tool to create a Domain Model diagram? Some details: I am running Windows at the moment A tool is free It's not a pencil and a sheet of paper It should be easy to use, i.e. I don't want to spend more than 5 minutes for a relatively simple diagram I hate MS Visio. IMHO, It's ill-designed. Thanks....
Tools and Methods
What tools and procedures would you recommend or use yourself to help streamline the following sceanario: (I know its a long one but any help is appreciated) I work in a team that have an ecommerce app that we develop at our company. Its a reasonably standard LAMP application that we have been developing on and off for about 3 years. We...
What tool is this - or anyone got an alternative tool
I need to make a very simple drawing of a graph (NOT a chart but a graph, like in Dijkstra) with multiple nodes and multiple vertexes. I once saw this guy using a tool where he wrote the data in notepad then compiled or something and then he had an svg to view in a browser - to me this should be the simplest tool to draw this graph in. ...
Understanding Java Byte Code
Often I am stuck with a java class file with no source and I am trying to understand the problem I have at hand. Note a decompiler is useful but not sufficient in all situation... I have two question What tools are available to view java byte code (preferably available from the linux command line ) What are good references to get fam...
Tool to integrate with any ecommerce website to extract catalogue/product details
Hi all, Q) Is there any tool to integrate with any e-commerce websites to extract catalog/product details for its mobile website. I reviewed JDOM and screen-scraper solutions. They are not fulfill my requirements properly and I need to rework for certain scenarios like (desktop website layout has been changed, I need to change setting...
Visual Studio - Tool to replace hard coded strings with resources
Hi all, I have a big ASP.NET project full of hard coded strings, that now have to be extracted to resources. Such strings can be found almost anywhere (in .cs files, .aspx files, .ascx files, etc.) and the amount of files is huge. What I'm looking for is a tool (or any way) to find all these hard coded strings in one shot and put them al...
Trace all method calls in ASP.NET application
I need to trace all method calls in an ASP.NET application for a period of time, say 24 hours, into a log file. Looking for tools that allows me to do this? I'm interested in in getting something like this out: 2009-10-12T13:00:41 MyClass.MyMethod("arg1.toString()", "arg2.toString()") ... other nested calls inside this method ... 2009...
What tools are available to test SQL statement performance?
In the never-ending search for performance (and my own bludgeoning experience), I've learnt a few things that could drag down the performance of a SQL statement. Obsessive Compulsive Subqueries Disorder Doing crazy type conversions (and nest those into oblivion) Group By on aggregate functions of said crazy type conversions Where fldID ...
Simulate lack of system resources on Linux machine
Can someone recommend a utility to simulate a resource constraint on a Linux system. I need to test performance of the system under stress - both memory and CPU. I would need something that would allocate an amount of memory, therefore leaving less for the program I am testing. And also would use up all available CPU. I am preferring...
Is there a C# tool that will let me execute an arbitrary block of code?
I'm sure something like this exists, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is called. I'm looking for an app where I can just execute an arbitrary block of C# code and see any console output. ...
Online chart editor
I love to use Google Documents as MS Word and MS Excel replacements for online collaboration. However, now I need to discuss architecture layout for my software. Nothing too fancy, perhaps a little (pseudo-)UML, but mostly basic shapes (rectangles, ellipses etc.) with labels, connected by thin lines or arrows. In olden Windows times I'...
help understanding what's possible with source control integration into issue tracking software
This is related to (but not identical to) "How important is version control integration with your bug tracking software?" I am currently using JIRA as issue/task tracking software with a small team, for potential evaluation for broader use in our company. Because we use SurroundSCM, and JIRA does not support either SurroundSCM or the ge...