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Freeware tool needed for drawing simple (but good looking) application diagrams

So, what I would need is NOT UML or developer - only - diagrams, but more something similar to what one can do with Visio Professional. I don't need to provide code generation or something, also the main focus is the looks of the diagrams (so DIA and similar applications are a no - go). Also, whats needed is a good library of graphics ...

Scala 2.8 tools for production use

What are your experiences with Scala tools currently used in production? Given that Scala 2.8 has been out for over a month, I thought it would be a good time for an update on the status of Scala tooling, along the lines of these questions. I'd like to broaden the scope of the questions beyond IDEs, to include RAD tools (e.g. JRebel), b...

How can I generate an inheritance chart in C#? Are there any free tools?

How can I generate an inheritance chart in C#? I have a lot of classes in this project and it would be useful. Edit: I have VS2008 ...

How to detect WebKit Inspector?

I know how to detect Firebug in FF (if (window.console && window.console.firebug) alert ('Buu'); ) but how detect or disable Web Inspector in WebKit?? ...

Powerful calculator tool for windows?

I do a lot of heavy math programming. Often there is a need to check some calculations "by hand", specifically while debugging. Do have good experience with some calculator tool (preferably not with gui buttons like windows calc). It could even be a programming language I guess, such as matlab. I like matlab, but I'm looking for somethin...

Mid to large companies on alternative .net development tools/framework stack?

Are there any larger shops out there that deviate from the traditional MS .net stack for a more alt.net stack? I'm currently in a mid-size development shop and trying to get the team to open their eyes to the whole .net development universe out there instead of just what is pumped out of Redmond. I'm looking for people who work in a lar...

Drawing tools in C# + library code or component

Hi Can any one introduce me a code library or framework to use for drawing in C# like DRAWCLI Sample in VC++ ? thx ...

A tool for finding the difference between two MDB Files

I have two different MDB files [with the same structure]. Is there an existing tool that can report the difference between the two files [row by row]? I found a program called "MDBDiff" on SF, however the program is no longer available for download. ...

iperf tool measure throughput server side or client

From iperf man: iperf is a tool for performing network throughput measurements. It can test either TCP or UDP throughput. To perform an iperf test the user must establish both a server (to discard traffic) and a client (to gen- erate traffic). Basically you run iperf server at one end and iperf client at ...

online encoding checker tool

hi, I am looking for a tool buy which i can identify the exact encoding of input file. please suggest any online encoding checker tool, Thanks ...

How not to give up on VIM?

Hi, I have started to do some programming using VIM. I have very mixed feelings so far. On one side I do love the idea, on the other - it is just hard to remember everything. So I took the approach of learning while actually doing some stuff (for Ruby on rails development). Unfortunately there is no chance in hell for me to be more pro...

How to generate external intellisense documentation

What tool do I need to generate XML intellisense help file as shown below? ...

which language / tool to use

Hi All! Here's the situation: I need to develop a desktop tool that will take in an input from Oracle (text) and it's output is a print of a layout generated by that tool. The tool needs to be fast and able to print easily and not much extra software required on client PC's which ALL run Windows. Now i've studied Java, PHP in the pas...

Geo tools and other options?

Hello Everyone, This is my scenario. I have the latitude and longitude of certain places in a CSV file.I now want to be able to show these points on a map. say for example on the US map.I tried converting this CSV file to shape file and tried to use the geo-tools to do this, but am missing some jar file which am unable to figure out.Wha...

How to display pressed keyboard shortcuts on screen during presentations or screencasts?

There are tools that monitor what keyboard shortcuts you just pressed and display them on screen. That is very handy during presentations or screencasts. To see an example, have a look at these Mac OS Quick Tip videos or this video (hardly visible black box in the right bottom corner of the screen). Question What tools are there for Wi...

Perforce: P4V option to 'add to client view'? (It exists in P4Win)

In the Perforce realm, the P4Win GUI is now "legacy" and the new P4V is supposed to fill in the void (and it does, most of the time). There was one very useful (albeit rather hidden) option in P4Win that allowed adding a depot path to the client specification in a few clicks. Is there a similar option available in P4V? ... because I ca...

Commercial development tools free/discounted for non-profit organizations?

I just started working for an official non-profit organization, and am finding out that some commercial software vendors offer free or discounted licenses for non-profits. For example, Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence) offers free licenses and Adobe offers some of their products at a discount. Are there any other good development tools or se...

Are there any optimizers that don't care about compile times?

Are there any compilers in use that pay little attention to compilation speed but rather seek maximum optimization even at an order(s) of magnitude compile time slow down? It seems to me that having a compile take hours/days vs minutes/second wouldn't be a major issue once you get very near the final release. (And if you have enough tes...

google appengine datastore client

Is there a tool/client to view inside and make queries for google appengine datastore? ...

is there any netbeans pluggin that can work as subtitute of jindent ?

Maybe it's the wrong place to ask this kind of question, but I am giving it a shot cause stack's probably the best place to have an answer for other programmers. So, it there any third party or netbeans plugin that can be substitute of jindent, a tool to structure our code? ...