APIs for ADO.net entity framework
what are the APIs do i need to download in order to make ADO.NET Entity Framework available for my VS 2008 professional edition. ...
tools
Add programming language to gedit external tools?
The gedit external tools plugin allows tools to apply to only one or more of a predefined list of file types. How do I define my own file types? ...
Tools for optimizing CSS rules by rewriting DOM paths/selectors
Do you know any tool that takes a CSS stylesheet and a bunch of HTML files and then is able to identify CSS rules on the DOM and rewrite them according to the optimal element DOM path? Example HTML snippet: <div id="container"> <div class="profile"> <img class="thumb" src="xxx" /> <span class="nickname">knoopx</span> </div> </div...
Must have Tools for a Ruby on Rails Developer?
What Tools do all you ruby on rails developers use? Also do you use JQuery, Git, Rspec, IDEs etc? What should i stay away from i.e RJS, Prototype, scriptaculous, Sinatra? Any Tips/Tricks/advice greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance ;-) ...
How do I find out if a .NET assembly contains unmanaged code?
.NET assemblies that contain a mixture of managed and unmanaged code cannot be ILMerged with other assemblies. How can I verify if a given .NET assembly contains purely managed code, or a mix of managed and unmanaged code? ...
Is there a tool to model/simulate software concurrency?
Is there a good tool out there that can model an application concurrency/locking scheme in a graphical way and that can simulate some of the aspects? I know that Petri nets can be used for that more or less, but I don't know a good GUI tool that can design and simulate. Is UML in any way usable for such purposes? Any good links are ...
How to get better transparency with GIFs?
Is there any software, plugin or technique that would allow creating/exporting PNG-like GIFs with smooth transparent edges, at least for smaller images like bullets or buttons. I really have to use GIFs sometimes for IE6 so it'd would be great to know if such a tool exists? Thanks ...
free, cheap or open source UML and Visio-like tool
Hi Guys, We're looking for free/cheap or open source UML tools. What tools have you used ? It's OK if there are 2 tools, one each for Flow charts and UML. If a UML tool or Flow Chart tool is cheap(we're a NON-PROFIT), and no open source is good enough, we're open to look at them. Thanks and BR, ~A ...
GUI runner in Eclipse for Python/IronPython
As much as the console runner is nice, I enjoy the instant red/green view of a graphical runner such as NUnit or MSTest for quickly glancing at broken tests. Does such a tool exist for Eclipse? I've tried Google but only found some awful standalone versions. ...
A recommended Wiki for document collaboration / management?
I'm trying to convince the team I'm working for (which consists mostly of semi-technical or non-technical people) to drop our Windows-shared-folder stored word document based method of working on shared documents (product documentation, requirement documents, design documents, marketing material etc.) in favor of some web based Wiki like...
How to measure lock contention?
I'm reading http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/dcache/dcache%5Flock.html, in which spinlock time for each functions is measured: SPINLOCKS HOLD WAIT UTIL CON MEAN( MAX ) MEAN( MAX )(% CPU) TOTAL NOWAIT SPIN RJECT NAME 5.3% 16.5% 0.6us(2787us) 5.0us(3094us)(0.89%) 15069563 83.5% 16.5% 0% dcache_...
Graph Formatting Tools For Octave
I know that Matlab allows for you to format the graph after its created through the interface. However there isn't the same features in Octave. Is there a tool that goes between Octave and GnuPlot? If there isn't such a tool, is there a tool that will generate the formatting options? I've heard of EasyPlot, but it isn't free. ...
Tool to write and maintain printed documentation
Some of our customers ask for end-user documentation in a format that’s suitable for printing. Currently, I use Microsoft Word 2002 to write the documents and a non-free PDF printer to generate a PDF file with searchable bookmarks. Then I store both files in the Subversion repositoryT. While it does the job, it has a few drawbacks: It ...
Delphi trace tool
I was wondering if there's a tool or a component for Delphi that can trace method execution line by line and create a log file. With this kind of tool it is easy to compare how method performs on two sets of input data by comparing two log files. EDIT: Let's say there is a function 10: function MyFunction(aInput: Integer): Integer; 1...
Static analysis tool to detect ABI breaks in C++
It's not very hard to break binary backwards-compatibility of a DSO with a C++ interface. That said, is there a static analysis tool, which can help detecting such ABI breaks, if it's given two different sets of header files: those of an earlier state of the DSO and those of the current state (and maybe DSOs as well)? Both free and comme...
django models gui builder
does anybody know any gui builder of django models? ...
web tracking tool
can any one sugest me which is the best but free web tracking tool ? I want to know the statics, traffics, hits and area of hits etc... ...
What Software Management tool do you use?
Hello all, I couldn't decide if this question fitted here or superuser. I guess it can be moved if not appropriate. I am developing a new piece of software with somebody else and we are half way now. However, the changes we now make are getting messy as we do not know what changes have been made. So I wanted to know what you guys use t...
Best XPath tools
What tools are you guys using for XPath and why? Right now I'm using SketchPath because its totally awesome, but its a windows app that needs to be installed WhiteBeam online XPath test bedbecause you can test expressions from the website SketchPath seems to stand out the most to me because it actually helps you create the xpath and ...
Tools to create class methods interaction diagram
Let's say I have a MyClass class, with various methods, and let's say that method MyClass.A() calls methods MyClass.B() which calls MyClass.C(). Method MyClass.A() also calls MyClass.D() which also calls MyClass.C() and so on :) Is there any tool to visualize this as a diagram? UPD. I see NDepend can do what I need but it costs too much...