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Are there legal concerns for creating add ons for large applications?

I know this is more of a legal/lawyer question, but I'm sure others have run across this at some point so any insight is helpful. I'm looking to build and sell add on tools for large enterprise applications. The products I want to work with don't have APIs for directly accessing information, but store the majority of their data in a SQ...

syntax aware diff tools?

Are there any (ideally GUI) diff tools that are aware of syntax? As an example of the kind of thing I'm looking for, I keep finding that my current tool miss aligns repetitive code: Foo = { 'hello': 'world', | Foo = { 'hello': 'world', 'goodnight': 'moon' | 'goodnight': 'moon' } <...

Minimum required feature set for an IDE?

What are the minimum features required before a piece of software can legitimately be called an integrated development environment (IDE)? Or to ask this another way, what distinguishes an IDE from just a powerful text editor with programmer-centric features? I would think that any IDE would need to have, at least: Basic text editing ...

How to open large (HUGE) textfiles.

I am writing a program to produce random records in a format that can be specified in code and optionally write it to disk as a text file so it can be used for datamining benchmarks. My problem is that I can verify that my program works with small text files but I need to know if this is true for large amounts of data (this program will...

Highlight similar strings in Visual Studio like in Notepad++, for any file type.

Some people have mentioned RockScroll and MetaScroll in This Question, but those only seem to work in code, is there something that will work with any file type, including plain text files? In Resharper I can do ALT-SHIFT-F11, but again, that only works in source files, I need this functionality in plain text files as well. If not then...

Viewing Contents Of a DLL File....

hello there... is this possible to view contents and Functions of a DLL file... few times ago i was playing with OlyDBG then i found there is option for viewing contents of dll... so suggest me any good tool or soft for this... and suppose i have a DLL named "Python27.dll"... now i need to view the content of this DLL so what do i do...

2d geometry drawing tool

I'm looking for some tool/library that is able to draw simple 2d geometries from text file or programatically. I already found List of interactive geometry software but that not quite what I'm looking for. I would prefer something more similar in usage to graphviz or gnuplot. I already wrote some scripts for gnuplot but this tool has bee...

jQuery Tools - Slideshow & Tabs linking problem

I am using jQuery Tools Slideshow & Tabs for a project I am working on. Right now everything works great and as it should. Currently each tab (li) is what changes the images in the #slide div. The problem I am having is that I have an external link inside each li (Read More Button) which links to another page in the site. Because the lin...

Stop page reloading

I am using jquery Tools for overlaying a table. It works fine except when i click the close button, it reloads the page. Can anybody tell me why this page is getting reloaded? I want to stop it. Here is the actual code jQuery Code: <script src="http://cdn.jquerytools.org/1.1.2/jquery.tools.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; <script type="text/...

Convert .c to .java

Any tools to convert C code into Java code? I am interested in converting this code into Java: ***************************************************************************/ /* ** UNECM - Decoder for ECM (Error Code Modeler) format. ** Version 1.0 ** Copyright (C) 2002 Neill Corlett ** ** This program is free software; you can redistribut...

Reverse engineer database from a read-only oracle database

Hello everyone, I would like to know if there is any tool able to extract the design from an existing Oracle database. I have a read access to it and I would like to have the design. Or simply export it to a *.sql and then read it with any tool able to create the design with the links between the tables. Something like that Thank you...

Threading run time without adding extra lines in program

Is there any thread library which can parse through code and find blocks of code which can be threaded and accordingly add the required threading instructions. Also I want to check performance of a multithreaded program as compared to its single thread version. For this I would need to monitor the CPU usage(how much each processor is g...

Overlay in jQuery UI toolkit

Is there any overlay in the JQuery UI toolkit that offers a context arrow to the link/content that it relates to? ...

A good development environment for python

Possible Duplicate: What IDE to use for Python? I want to start programming in python. Is there a good development environment for python (like eclipse for java?). I guess there's a way to configure eclipse for python. If I somehow do that, will it be as good for python as it is for java? Will I be able to use the interpreter?...

Documenting relational databases (tables, views, functions, triggers)

I'm trying to improve the knowledge management of MySQL structures available on a project. By structure, I mean tables, views, functions, procedures, triggers. All these structures are extracted in .sql files. I'm looking for a way to document these structures, presenting results à la doxygen in HTML files. For example, I want this too...

Open Source Tool which Convert Source Code from one Language to other

Is there any tool which converts the source code in one language to other... ...

How to visualize NHibernate hbm.xml files

Are there any tools or clever methods for me to I visualize the contents of NHibernation hbm.xml files? I would like to load hbm files into a designer and see them as entities with relations ...

A tool to create full SQL-Sever database backup on a shared hosting?

I have a website on a shared hosting. I want to do a full backup of a Sql-Server 2005 database. I can connect to db using server management studio but I cannot do full backup because I cannot reach any filesystem (due to hosting limitations). Can anybody help? ...

why are programmers so passionate about their tools?

What is it about our profession that breeds such passionate support for our preferred IDE, OS, language, algorithm, licence, etc? Is it the (relatively) nascent stage of the craft so that the winners of the debate can potentially gain a dominant position, or is it a reflection of an innate competitiveness that is less likely to be exerc...

Open Source Data Migration Tool

Hi My requirement is I need to migrate Data from Mysql to Postgres. Is there any free Data Migration tool which could do this effectively. I have some huge data in MySQL which I need to convert to Postgres Db. Henceforth I am looking for a Data Migration tool which could migrate tables (along with indexes, constraints etc) and data. I...