tools

Is there a tool out there that lets you print a colour chart / palette of colours used on a web page?

I want to print a table of the colours used in a web page that my graphic designer has produced - I have .png files at present and use Fireworks to view them. It would be great if there was a tool that lets you print a table with the colour and hex value so I can easily reference when programming. Anyone come across such a thing? Sounds...

Seeking free ODBC database optimization tool for non-experts

I'm a database n00b and am reading as many books as I can. I have been given responsibility for an ODBC tool where the databases were designed by a hardware engineer with some VB experience - which made him a s/w guru in the small firm at that time. Things are running slowly and I suspect that the db could have been designed better. I ...

Re-send POST request easily - what tools?

I am looking for an easy way to re-send POST request to the server within the browser mainly for debug purposes. Say you have a XHR request which contains POST parameters that is to be send to the server. After having changed the script on the server side, you would like to resent the very same request for analyzing the output. What too...

Tools for debugging when debugger can't get you there?

I have a fairly complex (approx 200,000 lines of C++ code) application that has decided to crash, although it crashes a little differently on a couple of different systems. The trick is that it doesn't crash or trap out in debugger. It only crashes when the application .EXE is run independently (either the debug EXE or the release EXE - ...

Create an seo and web accessibility analyzer

I'm thinking of making a little web tool for analyzing the search engine optimization and web accessiblity of a whole website. First of all, this is just a private tool for now. Crawling a whole website takes up alot of resources and time. I've found out that wget is the best option for downloading the markup for a whole site. I plan o...

Tools used by professional web designers.

What are some tools that the professionals use? I want to make some professional looking designs for myself, but don't know where to start. I have 4 years of programing experience and about 5 years of web design experience, but I'm just not good with designing a layout. ...

command line tool text output

I have a small command line tool and after running it, I'd like to display the text output in a way that's easy for someone to copy/paste and save it or email it to someone else. Copy/pasting from a command prompt is not done in the standard way, so I don't want people to have to copy/paste from there. Saving the file to disk is possib...

Which is the best sql schema comparison tool for Oracle?

It should be a tool to enable versioning of a database schema and efficiently updating databases with older versions of the schema: robustness, does it handle all edge cases support for data migration command line execution flexibility, can some data be compared as well In the answers a breakdown on support for these points (and anyt...

Assembly version from command line ?

Does it exist a ms tool to get the assembly version of a dll from a command line ? (I know that I can code my own tool) ...

Java stuff you didn't know you didn't know

Possible Duplicate: Hidden Features of Java What are some Java language features or Java related tools that you were embarrassed to find that you didn't know about? Examples for me are: jmap RuntimeException Please post things every Java programmer should know about, be they language features, tools, or facts about how the...

OpenGL UV Texture tool

Hello all. I am looking for the 'UV Texture makeing tookl'. It is the one to supply image to 1024x1024, by the automatic operation. Will anyone learn a free tool? Thank you. ...

How to detect cache misses from users codes?

Hello, We have several users on the computing nodes which are running quite slow in some times. Are there some utility which can tell that the code makes cache misses or give a some hints for the optimization? The most of the users are coding in C++/C and F77/F90(some times with openmp). kind regards Arman. ...

Django: auto minifying css/js files before release

Hi, I have following case: I want to use uncompressed js/css files during development (to debug js for example) but on production I want to switch automatically to minified versions of that files. some simple solution is to put in your template: <script src="some_js.{% if not debug %}min.{% endif %}js".... but this require manully p...

Way to generate a code that creates a constructor based on the current values of an object?

Hi, What I want to achieve is after loading my object from the database, to generate a code that will give me a block which initializes my object based on its current values so that I can use this code-block in my unit tests again and again without loading it from Db anymore. Is there any tool around to achieve such a goal for VS? tha...

FxCop/StyleCop equivalent for ruby on rails?

Is there any static code analysis tools for ruby on rails? I am looking for something on the lines of "tests vs code analysis" as well as rules based analysis provided by FxCop. As an additional feature, an integration with hudson would be cool too. ...

Tools to generate unit dependencies for Delphi

Are there any tools that can generate dependency diagrams for Delphi units taking into account conditional compilation directives. I'd like to emphasize that this should be unit dependency diagram, not class dependency. Also it would be nice to have the ability to rearrange and hide some parts in the generated diagram. I've tried Unders...

Tracking SQL Dependencies within Stored procs / SSIS / SSRS

Hi All, We have an environment where we develop within T-SQL, SSIS and SSRS. We have core databases for our own systems, but we have dependencies to another SQL system that we directly extract data from by calling tables, views and stored procs (not ideal, but that is for another day). As a developer I want to make sure that at any po...

What are the Utilities, Tools available in .net

Hi, Can some body provide me the list of Utilities and Tools available in .Net with there uses. Please guide me about this. ...

List of globally available shortcuts on a Windows system including 3rd party

Is there a way to get a list of globally available shortcuts on a Windows system, including 3rd party software? Random examples: WndHop - winkey+enter to move a window between monitors Dexpot - ctrl+spacebar to open task switcher Launchy - alt+spacebar My goal is to track down shortcut conflicts. Most of the above software can be ...

How is possible to export ant Project generated programmatically into build.xml

I am using ant externally, i.e. I construct org.apache.tools.ant.Project dynamically in my program: setup its Tasks, Targets etc., then I want to create build.xml file. How is possible? How possible export this project into ordinal ant build.xml? ...