Questions about development tools and other tools that are useful especially to programmers.
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What is the most effective approach to learn an unfamiliar complex program? [duplicate]
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How do you dive into large code bases?
I have quite a bit of experience with different programming languages and writing small and functional programs for a variety of ...
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Is there a version control system that can show changes to a specific method or function?
Sometimes it would be nice to be able to say something like:
(git|svn|hg|etc) diff Foo.c:main
(git|svn|hg|etc) log log Foo.c:main
to see the changes made to a specific function within a source file ...
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Requirement, architecture data capture tool
Are there any tools available for the following use case:
I am planning to write a complex application and now I just know about the basic functional requirments. I am refining the functionality with ...
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Task management tool needed [duplicate]
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How do you manage your todo.txt?
I am looking for some application like GoPlan, but free.
Something i can manage a little programming team, so i can give them tasks to ...
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How can I practice ARM assembly on a Windows PC?
I'm interested in finding software that will allow me to play around with ARM assembly instructions on my Windows PC. Ideally I'm imagining something like python's command shell. I'd like to type in ...
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What it the best programming/developer productivity tool … you have coded youself? [closed]
Well, the question is in the subject, but I would repeat - what is the best programming/developer productivity tool you have coded yourself.
A small console application or a script you hacked in a ...
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What does SVN do better than git?
No question that the majority of debates over programmer tools distill to either personal choice (by the user) or design emphasis, i.e., optimizing design according to particular uses cases (by the ...
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How much time should I devote to my toolchain?
I'm a bit of a tool nut and I'll often spend as many as 6-8 hours a week finding new tools, improving my existing tools by writing plugins or adapters or playing around with new tools to see if I like ...
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Methodologies/tools for when developing on your own
Suppose you have to develop a medium+ sized software, fully on your own. Like if it was a personal project you want to accomplish.
What methodologies/tools would you use to define what needs to be ...
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Robust way to keep records of software releases?
We release a number of small plug-ins that go along with our software. Each plug-in allows our software to talk to a single manufactuer's hardware. I would like to devise a system for keeping track ...
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Looking for a Task/Bug Management Tool - working with subcontractors [closed]
I'm a web developer who recently went freelance this year, and I'm begining to subcontract out some of the work on my projects. I'm looking for some guidance on picking the right tool(s) to help me ...
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The role of monitor screen size for a software engineer / developer / programmer [duplicate]
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Monitor screen size and programming ease
Is the screen size of a laptop/desktop is directly proportional to the productivity of a developer? How? Is it the real estate ...
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Are there any good tools for visualizing refactoring work?
Many of my co-workers take pride in writing complex algorithms and programs, ones which take significant time to completely grok. I (strongly) tend towards the opposite end.
I'm proud when I write a ...
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How can I perform sentiment analysis on extracted text from online sources?
I'm working on extracting the sentiment from YouTube comments, blogs, news content, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter feeds.
I'm looking for an automated way to do this: the two third-party solutions ...
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How can I configure my programming environment to enable rapid switching between projects?
It often happens that I develop multiple different projects at once, so I need a solution to switch from one environment to another.
I have created batch files to do the job but as this thing grows, ...
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Study guide for learning JavaScript programming from scratch [closed]
Recently my girlfriend decided to switch career and invest on programming. (Wow, I must admit I was a good influence to her).
I suggested her to learn JavaScript as this language evolves a lot and ...
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Best tool to privately share code with members of a team?
I'm getting into freelance web design and I have a team of several people. I was wondering what is the best tool (preferably free) to share code with other members of the team, allow them to edit it ...
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Do the scattered tools and lack of rich IDE makes Ruby and Python only suitable for hobbyists? [closed]
I am not against Ruby and Python, but this question evolved from my own experiences with these languages.
There are a lot of commonly needed tools scattered everywhere and there is no center stage of ...
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Best tool for keeping and organizing code snippets and code templates [closed]
I was wondering what is the best tool for keeping a collection of code snippets and code templates that you use most often or just want to organize.
The tool must be IDE/Editor agnostic.
Desktop ...
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How can I get the team that I work with to communicate synchronously?
Okay, so I work on a team of 4 people. We're spread all around the country, and when we communicate, it's either through email or our issue tracker.
That's okay most of the time, but I feel like I ...
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Does unit test increase productivity? [duplicate]
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TDD vs. Productivity
In most computer science books such as Clean Code we are told to write good unit test in order to increase productivity when updating project or ...
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What tools can be used to get a reference like document.frames.item(0).document.innerhtml?
I want to scrape things from a web page. The way I want to do this is to extract the text of a DOM element (I believe this is the correct description). This means that I will to retrieve the text of ...
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What tool do I use to examine a dll's methods?
I am trying to identify differences between two different versions of Citrix, between Metaframe and XenApp. Problem is, because they are intended to solve the same problem, they both have interfaces ...
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Is LinqPad site quote “Tired of querying in antiquated SQL?” accurate?
I was struck by the heading
Tired of querying in antiquated SQL?
on http://www.linqpad.net/.
I am a N-Tier application developer and learnt my trade in a company that worked with a lot of data, ...
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Is it possible to take a binary compiled for ARMv7 architecture and convert it to ARMv6?
Is it possible to take a binary compiled for ARMv7 architecture and convert it to ARMv6 ?
Are there any tools that can do this?
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Why would a code analysis tool be priced based on lines of code count?
I heard some static analysis tools are priced depending on how much code they are licensed for.
I can think that it's usual segmentation - the more code the customer has the more care he needs and ...
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Taking part in an open source project
I am new to open source development. I want to add some functionality to an open source project PRISM. But I couldn't find any developer guide or code architecture guide sort of a thing for it. How ...
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What implementation of Scheme is good for studying SICP?
I heard about Dr. Scheme but haven't really used it. What is your experience with SICP, what set of scheme tools did you use when learning SICP?
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Decent tool for building and testing regular expressions [duplicate]
I'm in need of a decent tool for building and testing regular expressions, what does everyone use?
I would download expresso but in my last place it turned out to be laden with adware - any clean ...
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How should I develop an unusual user interface?
Say I have an idea for a desktop application with unusual interface requirements. I need:
Pixel-level control over the look and feel.
Finely specified custom controls.
Platform-independence.
My ...
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Open Source Static Analysis tool for C?
I see there are many proprietary lint lookalikes with typical "enterprise" price ranges. But is there any point in paying the money they ask for a static C source analyzer instead of using an open ...
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Project Management Software / 1 maybe 2 developers
I am looking for software that I can use to "manage" multiple projects (5 - 10). Here are the features I would like but any recommendation is welcome.
Bug/Feature tracking on a per project basis.
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How can I learn libraries and stuff faster? [duplicate]
As a programmer, it seems like I spend half my time figuring out how to use various libraries/frameworks/tools. First Javascript, then Jquery, then canvas, then Backbone, etc, etc. Every tool has ...
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Subversion Tools To Help With Branching and Merging
Our shop is about to release a major rewrite of our application. And, we are going to need to do bug fixes on versions out in the field while developing new features for the next version. Frankly, ...
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Does FitNesse improve product quality and collaboration?
I heard about a tool named FitNesse, which is supposed to promote better collaboration between development, testing, and product groups.
What are your experiences with it? Does it really improve ...
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Static analysis config and convenience scripts in source control
1) Should static analysis tool config be placed in source control?
This config is not needed to compile/run software and some developers can have different preferences (even within coding convention). ...
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Does KISS encourage tools and frameworks that expose complex leaky abstraction layers?
Tools and frameworks make complex tasks simple. This seems like something that would be supported by KISS(keep it simple stupid). Tools and frameworks also have the potential to introduce leaky layers ...
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Tool to manage requirements throughout a software development lifecycle [closed]
I am looking for a tool to manage requirements or features for a software development project. It will be used by a small geographically diverse team of 5-10 people to raise, discuss and track ...
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Are There Any Programming Focused Notebooks?
I know that engineering paper exists, but are there any companies that make programmer-specific notebooks for notes/pseudo-code/designs?
Paper is my preferred way of outlining things, so the addition ...
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Best way to create a web interface to query a particular database
I was asked to make a web application to allow users to query a particular database more easily. Simplifying, this database has only two tables, reports and products. The relationship between the two ...
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Are there any tools for testing drag & drop Windows desktop applications?
I need to develop a Windows desktop application (win32 API) which will use drag & drop extensively in many formats, including my own. I need to test it, for example, with CF_TEXT dragging, CF_RTF, ...
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Can you choose your tools or do you take what you get?
I often see questions about what tools to use for a particular problem, or suggesting that one tool is preferable over another, and that it says something about the quality of the programmer who uses ...
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git for personal (one-man) projects. Overkill?
I know, and use, two version control systems: Subversion and git. Subversion, as of now, gets used for personal projects where I am the only developer and git gets used for open source projects and ...
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User interface design tool [closed]
Are there any applications that can help me design a user interface in conceptual way?
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Light-weight visual requirements tool (combination of mockups and use cases)
For my team, mockups are the primary artifact for development and the requirements process. We use balsamiq mockups for confluence.
We also write use-cases to point out the workflow and for adding ...
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How do I improve my memory and recall?
How do I go about improving my memory and recall as it relates to Programming?
I have a tendency to cache API information short term and then immediately put it out of my head as I move on to ...
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Any good tools for managing list of tasks?
We are changing how we manage low priority admin, support and development tasks. The plan is to have a 'Stack' of tasks, which anyone can pick up if/when they are light on work.
We would like a tool ...
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Free and decent GUI mockup tools? [closed]
Are there any decent tools aside from MS PowerPoint to create GUI mockups? I've tried Balsamiq Mockups. It's great but it's not free. Are there any tools just like it, but free?
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Designing tool for C#
I have seen few developers use a tool for designing their application where they simply dragged needed elements (classes, variables, objects) and just did magic work.
Then there was a button to ...
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A good tool set for ASP.NET development
What are some good (or must have) ASP.NET development/debugging tools in addition to Visual Studio IDE?
So far the only trick in my pocket is .NET Reflector, that has come in handy before.
(I would ...
