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Need help with making personalized maps in google map..

Hi all, I am trying to get something very simple done since a long time with Google Maps, and just can't get it done. This is so confusing and counter-intuitive unlike many Google products. I am not sure if I should be putting this question on superuser.com , but I am putting it here, as this is far more active. Say, I am in a new town...

Any tool to allow moving of elements on a webpage to aid design?

Are there any tools/Firefox plugins that will allow you to drag elements (divs, images etc) about on the page, and tell you the amount (x, y) that you have moved it? It would speed up designing a page a lot, instead of tweak css, reload page, tweak css, reload page. I've found the Firefox Web Developer extension useful for editing the c...

convert txt file with mixed spaces/tabs to tabs only (where possible)

Hi, I have some source code file which has mixed tabs/spaces and I want to convert it to a file where it has automatically replaced all indentation spaces by tabs for a given tab space length (i.e. for example tab = 2 spaces). Any easy solution (with common Unix tools, MacOSX, bash or zsh)? Some sed script or Python command or so? Tha...

Storing debug session (breakpoint/bookmarks) in Visual Studio (C++)

Hi! When I'm debugging something, I would like to store breakpoints/bookmarks related to bug* I'm currently working on. So when I switch to another bug*, I don't want every time to manually disable breakpoints/bookmarks related to previous bug, and create another one for the new bug. It would be great that is possible to tag breakpoint ...

Understanding code

What is the best way to get acquainted with C# codebase of approximate size 200K LOC? Are there any tools available? http://www.program-comprehension.org/ It seems there is an event going for a long time for this purpose. Thanks. ...

Parallel Programming with Tools.

I was looking into Intel's Parallel Studio. It said it is for C & C++ programmers. I know C# 4.0 has a lot of parallelism features. I like a few things in Parallel Studio. Can Parallel Studio be used for C# as well? ...

essential tools for .net programmer?

This question looks familiar with this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2187/essential-programming-tools, but I want to focus on .NET programming. Beyond Windows and Visual Studio, which tools are your daily-need to get your job done? Free, open-source code tools are preferred :) I've been using these tools: Resharper - top of its...

Great tools which help in development?

Apart from all the IDE's and their features or plugins (and lets skip version control systems too), what tools do you use which help you with development? This can be almost anything, but please keep it computer related. Not that i have something against your dog being very helpful with bug-fixing, but i do like cats more ;) ...

creating diagrams/schemas of a PHP project

Hello, The main goal is create relationship diagrams/flow schemas from a big and complex PHP project automatically. I have a one big framework and it is not documented. Structure looks good but modules and additional codes not. If you can give me the ideas, may be i can code myself an analyzer with PHP but it would be good if you can ...

Performance evaluation tools for C++

Hi everyone, I am really not sure if such a tool exits but let me describe it in few words. I want to measure the performance of a small library I am writing. Basically the library does arbitrary precision arithmetic. I would like to compare the performance of the library against available libraries and get the statistics of the tests. ...

Where are my Siebel Business Services?

Hi, in Siebel I can create Business Services at 2 locations: Siebel Client Siebel Tools In the Siebel Client I cannot see the Business Services created in Siebel Tools, and vice versa. (After creating a new Business Service in Siebel Tools, I compiled it - no errors reported - and ran the client with "Debug" from the Siebel Tools ...

Looking to design a tool to Translate Business logic from Stored Procedures to C# Business Layer

Without getting into a discussion about whether the business logic should be in the database or at the application layer, since it has been covered elsewhere. My team is translating 100K+ lines of PL/SQL code and moving the logic from the database into the application. We were using VB6 with straight calls to Oracle 9i Stored Procedure...

Tool to generate data dictionary from SQL file

Ok, so I got duped into doing some database design for an Oracle database where I work. The problem is, I'm not much of a DB guy :-). I'm currently using Rational Application Developer (RAD) to do the modeling of my database schema. What I'd ideally like to do is generate a series of Word documents, containing information from my DB sche...

How can I better understand and navigate the structure of large XML files

Hello everyone, I'm slogging through a somewhat large XML file. Say I'm looking for a particular value within the tree. I find it manually, but then to find it programmatically I need to know the path. Right now, I'm usingtidy and vim to pretty-print the file so that can I inspect it manually. It's getting old real fast though, 'cause t...

Whatever happened to nStatic?

Wesner Moise used to write about a static analysis tool called nStatic for .NET which looked really exciting. This was a few years and nothing has been published since. Does anyone know what's happened to the tool, or in fact, Wesner himself?! I hope he's OK, his last post about nStatic development explained that he'd had some health ...

Binary Analysis Research Tools

Hi, Can some one provide me with a list of leading binary research tools for Windows OS and windows applications? I found BinScope from microsoft itself but was wondering if there are any other better tools around? Thanks, Omer ...

Configure registry permission tool

I have to write a key value pair in the registry. This is done using a tool. This fails sometimes. Is there any windows utility available which can set the permissions of the registry? If the specific user does not have permission to the registry, I should be able to configure the permissions accordingly - from an administrator account....

Command line program for database script extraction

I am looking for a command line program that extracts a script containing commands for creations of all database objects (tables, views, procedures, generators, types). It should work with MySQL, Firebird, Oracle and MS SQL Server. As a part of our automatic build process we would like to put in our SVN repository a script for database...

Free SQL formatting tool?

Hey, is there a good free tool out there that can also format complex queries? Thanks :-) ...

Framework for loading flat files into SQL Server

Hello, I have to import flat files into SQL Server. So far, I've used SSIS packages and Delphi programs to do the job but I'm getting more and more files to load. Many are very wide (more than 90 fields) and they all have their own specifics: some are fixed-width, some are delimited with a wide set of characters used as field and row de...