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Framework to develop own forms/UI designer

I have application which consumes XML and based on this creates a GUI. Basically this is declarative language in form of XML to design the GUI. Now I want to create a visual GUI designer to edit forms and screens on the screen and output will be that XML. I need a suggestion what can help me in my development, may be there is some kind ...

jQuery Tools (horizontal accordion) combined with jQuery UI (tabs) ?

Hello everybody and thanks for taking your time. I got an existing project where the main-page uses a horizontal accordion for the main content area from jQuery Tools (the Tabs element). Now i have to implement a Tabs-menu (into one of the existing accordion pages) which is build with jQuery UI (the main container are Tabs and inside o...

Site to host code snippets

I am looking for a web site that allows uploading of code snippets. The idea is that it would allow me to put in a code snippet and language and then allow me to link to it. Then when the link is followed it would show my code snippet with syntax highlighting. This is very similar to the idea of image hosting that you can get for fre...

Java jar symbol info : what is the equivalent of tdstrip ?

I have a .jar file which is 1MB. Without debug info, it should be about 100KB. Now, how do I strip the debug info? Oldtimers from the borland world might remember of a tool called tdstrip which would remove the symbol info from an .exe. What is the equivalent in the Java world? I'm trying to do mobile development where a 1MB file is wa...

Does a software exist to batch convert image at different rotation angle?

Hi, I have searched on the web for software that batch convert image at different rotation angle from a source file, but my searches went unsuccessful. Does what I am looking for exists? What would be awesome is an application that we browse for a source image in PNG and a target directory and when a button is pressed the program create ...

Multi database schema export

Hello, I'm writing a project that will make use of mySQL or Derby (it must work in both situations). To solve this I'm using Hibernate and it works nicely, but for a situation: I've a couple of tables that contain cities and towns, with data related so that if i know the town I can join and get the county, state and zip code. These table...

How do I see contents of filesystem directories in Visual Studio Solution Explorer?

We have some files (config, static files, that sort of thing) in our codebase that are kept in the same filesystem tree as our codebase, but are not part of projects (ie, not underneath a project's tree). We're after a way of easily managing these from within the IDE. I dimly recall there being a Visual Studio addin that lets you do so...

Analysis Tools to help you in C development

I've just started learning C and I have a hard time finding bugs, memory leaks and the like. Which are good tools to assist you in finding such things? I heard of Valgrind but are there others? ...

Preferred Testing tools

May I know the testing tools that people commonly use for testing web or windows applications. Is there any free tools that are available or there are any other tools that can be bought that really adds a great value? Please share your thoughts or comments ...

Refactoring C++ code to use forward declarations

I've got a largeish codebase that's been around for a while and I'm trying to tidy it up a bit by refactoring it. One thing I'd like to do is find all the headers where I could forward declare members, instead of including the entire header file. This is a fairly labour intensive process and I'm looking for a tool that could help me fi...

Business Case for Resharper

We are trying to get Resharper introduced to our company but it would have to be for all developers. Management want us to justify the cost with a business case. I am unsure how to go about getting proof that Resharper will benefit the business. What kind of statistics can you get from it? Any help with this would be appreciated. ...

Rapid Desktop Applications Development tool for Linux

Please suggest some Rapid Desktop Applications Development tool for Linux whose output can be run easily on Windows. It should support some local disk based embedded database like SQLite or HSQL. ...

Tool which will generate x,y coordinates (from a simple drawing)

Following on from this question (thanks for all the help): What web technology to opt for to offer interactive colouring? I guess I need a tool (maybe online) which will generate x,y coordinates (representing polygons) from a simple line drawing. I have looked online but the result comes up most is VectorMagic. Which spits out a text ...

Any good(free/Open Source) sql query performance Analyzer tool..

I am using sql server 2005 and i want to measure some query performance using an analyzer tool.... Any good tool (free/Open Source) that you can refer..... ...

searching for a program / tool that can show you screenshot how your html page show in big mail servers

i search for tool / program that i can upload my html (newsletter), and the program can show me screenshot or in other way how my newsletter seems in GMAIL / YAHOO / HOTMAIL / OUTLOOK .. the big mail servers , it saves for me , the need to open an account in every provider. and check in every mail how it seems . thanks ...

Developer Survey on Carrier Network APIs

Here’s a chance to tell a major national carrier which APIs (“enablers”) you want to see as a developer. The survey will take about 5 minutes and all participants will have a chance to win one of six Android smart phones. Thanks so much for your help and your feedback! To start the survey, go to http://devcentral.checkboxonline.com/netw...

Best way to write documentation.

I need to create some documentation for a project that will evolve in the future. The documentation will grow huge, so I need to choose some proper tools. The proper documentation tool should: Store everything in plain text files (so I can make diffs without any problems). Easily convert all files to linked html (with many pages) and ...

Smart mysql query error interpreter

I am looking for an application, that would give me some more descriptive information about syntax errors in SQL queries, than: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near (...) Finally I always find out what is wrong with my query, but it is ...

tool for monitoring the windows messages used by an external application

i am looking a tool for monitoring the windows messages fired by an external application in real-time. some time ago i used winsight32 (tool that ships with Delphi), but is very memory expensive and freeze my laptop. ...

Editing/Modifying a .java file programmatically? (not the .class file)

So, here is a piece of code using CodeModel that generates java code: JCodeModel cm = new JCodeModel(); JDefinedClass dc = cm._class("foo.Bar"); JMethod m = dc.method(0, int.class, "foo"); m.body()._return(JExpr.lit(5)); File f = new File("C:/target/classes"); f.mkdirs(); cm.build(f); This code generates ...