tools

What tool(s) do you use when writing use cases?

What tool(s) do you use to write use cases and why? Do you use a common word processor (Word/OpenOffice), a Wiki, a specialized tool (f.e. Visual Use Case), or something else? ...

Managing multiple Visual Studio Layouts

I'm currently using Visual Studio 2008. As other applications, it saves its layout in their setting folder. That's fine. But, my problem is that I often launch 3~4 Visual Studios, and change each instance's layout. However, Visual Studio can only remember a single set of layout of the last terminated instance. I don't blame this limitat...

Monitoring my web application performance from the client browser

Hi, I want to be able to monitor the performance(load time of the entire page, load times of individually downloaded js/cs files , amount of memory used by the browser for the page,etc) of my web application from the perspective of the user(i.e the browser client). Is there any tool/plugin , that can help me monitor all of these? ...

UI Design tool for android

Can anyone please suggest any good GUI Design Tool apart from Droiddraw? ...

Visual MVC Builder?

Can anyone recommend a visual tool (preferably for Mac) that will help me visualize my MVC relationships? ...

Any update to WPF 3DTools?

I've been making heavy use of the interactive 3D controls, made by some guys on the WPF team, found here http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Daniel-Lehenbauer-and-Kurt-Berglund-Interactive-2D-controls-on-WPF-3D-Surfaces/ I've noticed there hasn't been any updates to this lately, and with WPF and .Net 4.0 just around the corner, I wa...

Development for different mobile platforms on Mac

I'm developing for iPhone mainly but wonder for what other mobile platform I can develop on my Mac? Info about any mobile platforms (Symbian, Maemo, Win-mobile, Android, Bada etc) is appreciated. ...

Folder Comparsion

Hi, I have two folders with sub folders. One folder is base folder other one is local folder These folders & subfolders consist identical as well as non identical files. I want compare these folders and report the result in some other file This report must consist of 1. List of All identical files 2. List of All modified files 3. List ...

What tools do you use to manage Change requests and Bug Reports

The issue we have is for example the customer requests a change or reports a bug which initially gets inputed into our bug tracking software (TFS) but 10 emails back and forth later the initial description in the bug report is out of date. it's a pain to go each time and update it and most of the time it's not. This becomes a headache a...

Get hyperlinks to all PDFs on a website

I need to download all PDFs (or any other files) available on a given website. I have a separate download module to which I provide a link to a pdf file and it downloads the file.I need a tool that can crawl through a given website and extract hyperlinks of all the pdf files available on the site so that I can send them to my download mo...

Finding the PHP File (at run time) where a Class was Defined

Is there any reflection/introspection/magic in PHP that will let you find the PHP file where a particular class (or function) was defined? In other words, I have the name of a PHP class, or an instantiated object. I want to pass this to something (function, Reflection class, etc.) that would return the file system path where the class ...

Best C++ static & run time tools

Apologies if I missed this question already, but I searched and couldn't find it. I have been out the C/C++ world for a little while and am back on a project. I was wondering what tools are preferred today to help with development. The types of tools I'm referring to are: Purify Electric Fence PC-Lint cscope Thanks! ...

WinCheat / WinSpy-like tool for C++ Builder exes

I just came back to C++ Builder after 5 or more years away. I seem to remember a nice tool where I could drag its pointer over the GUI of my running application and get lots of info about what was pointed at - handle, size, text, parent, children, etc IIRC, if the exe include debug info I could also get the actual variable name as used...

RDC via Smartphone

Is there any way to connect to RDC with help of smarphone? Can it be used for support and developer purposes? Share your experience. ...

What tools for server side application performance testing you suggest?

What tools for server side application performance testing you suggest? Have an application server and need to test it performance. Not sure issue is server side. Need to investigate. NB:Better to have convenient UI ...

Tool to convert inline C# into a code behind file

Hi I have a number of legacy web controls (ascx) that contains huge amounts of inline C#. The forms contain a number of repeated and duplicate code. Our first plan is to move the code into code behinds per file, then refactor etc... were doing this to upgrade the client to the latest version of their cms At the moment we are going ...

Do tools exist which automatically find copy-and-paste code?

Hello! Are there tools out there which could automatically find copy-and-paste code among a set of files? I was thinking of writing a script for this, which would just search for equal strings, but such script would find mostly irrelevant equalities. (Such as private final static ...). ...

Vim: multi-file editing - having different makes in different splits

I'm a recent vim convert (from fancy IDEs like eclipse.) I love the :make command in vim and use it extensively; however I also like to edit multiple projects (with separate makefiles.) So usually to edit more than one project I will do pushd project1 vim project1.cpp [suspend signal] pushd ../project2 vim project2.cpp and now I ca...

View and change sessions variables in a browser

Debugging a PHP program, is there any add-on/plug-in for browser which I can view sessions variables (those PHP $_SESSION["foobar"] )? Best if I can change the value in the variables. ...

What is the most Interesting and innovative IDE?

As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introduced? ...