Tools
Tools that help increase productivity....
Generally freeware.
Was considering tools like Refactor, CodeRush, etc...until I decided to develop all those add-in's myself. After a few weeks of frustration, and scanning the google radar for some tutorials, examples, I bumped into this.Free Add-In suite from USystWare. Nifty tools.....and obviously cannot beat FREE....
 It's a new interesting feature of the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 called 'Favicon'. Associate an icon with your homepage now. If somebody adds your page to his favorites, IE will access the file favicon.ico in the root folder of your domain and a small icon appears in his favorites list. The same icon is used, if you drag and drop the URL to your desktop. Example: You have a Geocities Page. Then you'll need a Windows Icon File, just name it favicon.ico and place it in your Homepage directory. Then add a line like
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/Area51/Home/6512/favicon.ico">
in the <head> ... </head> section of your Homepage. It's very important to include the whole directory relative to the root of the webserver. If you don't use the LINK REL method, IE will automatically use the file: http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico - Read the MS documentation here. Some people reported me, there are a few bugs in the IE 5, in some cases the icons dissapear from their favourites list (see next question). More infos on Favicons on favicon.com or favicon.de. |
(via http://www.iconarchive.com/html/faq.html )
Did not check this to work yet...but am certain to put it up on my site.
1. Create a <applicationName>.bat file
2. In the edit mode, enter the direct path to the executable.
(eg) C:\Program Files\nAnt\bin\nAnt.exe
3. Save and close the file and store it under the C:\Windows folder.
4. Open the command prompt window, and type in the batch file name to access the program.
A how-to note to self.
1. In explorer, open Tools, Folder Options.
2. Select the File Types tab.
3.For Windows XP: Go to NONE / Folder.
For Windows 2000: Press n to scroll to the N/A section.
For Windows NT/98/95: Press f to scroll to the Folders section.
4.Select the entry labeled Folder
5.For Windows 2000/XP: Press Advanced button.
For Windows NT/98/95: Press Edit button.
6. Select New
7. In the action block type "Command Prompt" without the quotes.
8. In the app block type "cmd.exe" without the quotes.
9. Save and exit Folder Options.
10. Close that instance of Explorer window and open a new one.
Apart from IBM Rational Rose, is there any "GOOD" and recommended case tool ?
For all those of you working professionals, could you please recommend any good case tools that you are using in your company?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Sashidhar
Not the first time to be noticing this......but whenever I install Yahoo Messenger on any computer.....it brings out this wizard screen and all of us geeks use the "custom" installation hoping that we can install only the stuff we need...typically the messenger only and ignore all the other stuff (yahoo internet mail, explorer bar, etc) and click on "Next"....and if the wizard took our input properly, then we would have seen only the messenger installed and nothing else....and technically....we live happily ever after.
But NO....yahoo does not do that....though I UN-CHECK the checkboxes against everything else except messenger, they still get installed....so much so...that it is not even covert....it does it right infront of ur eyes. The progress bar boldly says that it is installing the explorer bar, internet mail, etc...... too much honesty.
Giving it a benefit of the doubt, I go ahead and check the "Add/Remove Programs section "... just to be sure......and ya....they are there too.... Everytime I have to uninstall the explorer bar and the yahoo mail from my system....does anyone @ yahoo messenger team even know that their "step-by-step wizard" has not been properly programmed?
Anyone else experiencing the same problem?
My universe consists of 4 million+ records. If I were to compare one record against the universe, how much time would I take using SQL Server 2000?
Had this on my list of things to check out for a reeeaaalllllly long time...and last nite on the flight to MN from Chicago, I saw this on the in-flight TV's relay of some tech-tv episode. Seems kinda a nice way to google out stuff. And unlike others (except Firefox), who tie you to a certain search engine, this allows you to use a bunch of search engines...(something like Firefox). I just downloaded it...and it is AWEsome so far. I am yet to figure out the parameters by which it categorizes stuff. So....I grokked my name.....and as expected.......a major search result in google was dotnetjunkies....and it grouped all of them under one category. I am still researching into it.
Well....since the product does a lot of visual rendering, it kinda tends to get slow once in a while....but is certainly visually appealing....and allows one to search information quicker from a result-set. Though I am not too sure if the slowing down is generic to my machine...coz this machine wont even load IE quick enuf.
You can download grokker here.
Does anyone know when DotNetNuke 3.0 is going to be released officially? I know it is int Beta 2 stage....but any idea of the release date??
-S
Got my machine upgraded to 1.5G from .5G. Damn this is awesome speed now.
Am freaking excited to format my machine tomorrow and reinstall stuff to basically remove all the crap I have been having on my system till now.
-S
Ok... I read the “Coder to Developer” book and am inspired to use a source-code/version control system. So... I do some research on the net...and come up with a whole load of articles that dont stick to one unanimous decision of what is the best and free at the same time.
Apart from Visual Source Safe 6.0, does anyone use any other application that is good (not that VSS 6.0 is any good).
So..I installed Sauce Reader a couple of weeks back...took a week's vacation...and finally am back to using SauceReader...and I finally decided to un-install it. It takes too much memory...which is highly annoying. OmeaReader works just fine for the reader part. I guess I have to develop my own writer for my blogs.
For what its worth...I would prefer Tomato Sauce anyday over Sauce Reader...lol
While struggling to understand Sam's last talk on SOA, myself and a bunch of other attendee's noticed a date/time thingie that popped at the bottom of the screen. After debating its origin (without asking Sam ... duh), we conculded that it could be something in the Powerpoint template that showed the current date/time...or may be it was a feature of the projecter.
Lately, while I was reading a comment to Jason's blog, I saw it under a comment there.....that it was a software (aka...freeware) called SlickRun.
In a nut shell, it is a smart version of Windows "Run" command that is frequently noticed in the start-menu. You can download it from here.
Am too lazy to describe all the features here.....but sure is worth it. And it is customizable too....