I'm web developer. Before some time I have got the project to maintain. The project is on-line for a few years now and there were few more maintainers before me. Over its lifetime there were many changes in functionality. Many features were added, some of them later were removed as unused. Some from these features required new design ele...
As part of a release we run a load of PL/SQL scripts against a database. Recently someone left the ; off the end of a line in one script that was called another script so this meant that script did not get run. Because this did not cause an error, it just didn't get run, it took quite a while to track down what had happened. I want to c...
I work on a code base that is ... messy. One aspect of this messiness is that we have a ton of methods whose signatures no longer match the associated Javadoc. For instance: /** * * @ param foo */ public void doFoo(int bar) {... I'm no fan of generated Javadoc (as it's almost always worthless), but I really could use a tool that ...
I am going to be starting a hobby project with a friend, but we'll need some (free) way to organize and store tasks, bugs, etc. What tool do you recommend to do this? can something stored through an SVN server work? (Offline would be best) ...
I've used iPhone SDK and tools for several months. XCode seems pretty nice, but there is one tool which I don't get: FileMerge. How can anyone use it for comparing files or doing merge? Seriously now, what do you really use? My use case is subversion database on remote server, few local developers working on same project as well as few...
Are there any tools/websites/utilities for viewing a website in hex as it comes strait off the wire? I'm getting some strange non-printing characters back from somebody else's C++ code and I want to identify the characters to find out where they are comming from. I'm concerned that writing the file to disk messes with the characters ...
I have several config files in my .net applications which I would like to merge application settings elements etc. I was about to begin doing it manually as I usually do, however thought there must be an XML diff GUI tool available somewhere. The tool would be able to go to the element level to compare and display the differences etc....
I do not have experience with DevExpress products, so I do not know which license i should take. My first thought obviously was not going for some of their components, as this is not really interesting for 'personal' use. So one of their Visual Studio® Productivity Tools looks interesting. But which one is the most interesting? What d...
What software/UI techniques can leverage our spatial memory? I think and remember in physical space, often the location of something is as important as it's content. For instance I keep an untidy desk, but I know where to find things, I use different parts of my (multiscreen) desktop for different windows/icons. I annotate books (with p...
see my question on title. note that I understand how to debug javascript in any browsers (including IE 7++) other than IE 6. ...
I am using PHP CodeSniffer to check if my code complies to Zend standards. 80 chars per line is one of them. But I prefer to indent line with white spaces and sniffer treat short lines with line indentations as long lines. Is there a way to teach it to ignore whitespace identations? Or it makes sense and the farther my line is indented,...
I am working on a web development project that I want to make sure works well on the BlackBerry browser. As part of both testing and documentation, I want to be able to take screenshots of my application and was wondering where to start. I see there are a couple of pay applications on BlackBerry App World when I search for screenshot, ...
I am developing on a large monitor and would like to see, at a glance, how different parts of my application look at different screen resolutions. I'm not interested in a utility which resizes my application or windows inside my application; I'm more interested in some sort of 2D screen overlay that can be set to different dimensions,...
Hi, I would like a tool (or firefox) that enumerates all , elements on an target HTML page and generates a new HTML page which I can use to post to the original page. I want to use this for security / sql injection testing, to circumvent any JavaScript validations. The Web Developer firefox plugin is close, but it doesn't let me chang...
If possible, describe platforms/languages/symbolic formats supported and if full support is provided (historical states back) or partially (only code can rerun with no rescue for states). Further information about performance or resources needed is welcome but optional. ...
I started using Linux for PHP web development. What is a helpful toolset to use for web development (mostly PHP) available for the Linux platform. My Current IDE is netbeans and I am happy with it. ...
I am looking for some tool that would help me prototype basic website structure and logistics (or simply user interface). It should be extremely efficient in the matter of time needed to do simple changes like changing position of objects on the page. It should provide features for creating multiple pages and linking them together. I d...
I've got a file and a patch for it. I'd like to visually apply the patch, t.i. see how the changes proposed by the patch look in context, make some corrections, and save the resulting file. What tool can do that? Neither of the visual diff tools (i.e. meld, diffuse, diffmerge) do what I want: they don't work with patches, they merely m...
Do you know a program which gives you a list of all assembler mnemonics used by a given byte machine code (mainly for x86's) beside their number of occurrences? I don't mean something like a pure disassembler. I'm only interested in their absolute frequencies. Edit: I'm happy too with a simple shell script or a cunning sequence of well ...
I'm trying out the developer tools on Chrome for Mac OS and I'm finding a huge annoyance. I don't see an obvious method to make the tools window attach to the bottom of the page I'm inspecting like in Firebug and Safari ...