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What is a program/software suite that you learned that made you a better programmer? [closed]
I am interested in picking up programs that would me a better programmer. I can think of Github and SVN, but nothing else stands out to me. I know this may be a bit vague, but what are useful tools in ...
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NASM Vs Gas an Intel Style Coder's Perspective
What are a few key points one should consider between these two
assemblers?
Which of the two has the most robust macro facilities?
Does Gas support Intel® syntax?
Is it possible to get GCC to display ...
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Informations about how much time in spent in a function, based on the input of this function
Is there a (quantitative) tool to measure performance of functions based on its input?
So far, the tools I used to measure performance of my code, tells me how much time I spent in functions (like ...
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FSM drawing tool with export to XMI
I'm searching for good tool that will allow me to draw Finite State Machine and then export it into XMI file so I could easily read it into my program. Could somebody propose something?
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Tool for work between UI/UX Designers and developers to show animations
Are there any standard tools for work between designers and developers, especially for designer to explain flow and animations (e.g. animation of components on ipad)?
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Automated architecture validation
I am aware of the fact that TFS 2010 ultimate edition can create and validate architecture diagrams. For example, I can create a new modeling project > add Layer Diagram > Add Layer called View > Add ...
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Essential management tools for a small/medium software development shop
I've recently started work with an organisation that is rapidly expanding and is recruiting or growing several development teams (including two web-based products and a data warehouse/BI team). They ...
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Unix tools in business use: are they helpful?
Do you think knowing Unix tools like sed, awk, LaTeX, Perl give you a great edge in the business world? (e.g. being a manager) From my short reflection, the only profession that needs those sort of ...
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Are there any concrete examples of where a paralellizing compiler would provide a value-adding benefit?
Paul Graham argues that:
It would be great if a startup could give us something of the old
Moore's Law back, by writing software that could make a large number
of CPUs look to the developer ...
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Is a company order to switch to a certain IDE a red flag?
I recently joined a rapidly growing startup. In the past 3 months the development team has grown from 4 to 12. Until now they were very laissez-faire about what developers used to do their work. In ...
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what vnc server and web client for students to program in java/eclipse? [closed]
Next week I am teaching a java course at the local university. As I found out recently, a lot of students face problems when they need to set up eclipse.
By Murphy's law, I would like to offer ...
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Does branch mapping design software exist, useful for visualizing code while debugging? [closed]
I'm looking for a piece of software where I can basically draw branches, almost in a tree structure and have headings and text for each node.
While stepping through legacy code I often find myself ...
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Which platforms exist for quick intra-office question and answer services? [closed]
"How do I reverse search in bash?"
"How do I copy to system clipboard in Vim?"
What platform options exist for this intra-office quick communication? I'm considering options that are very fast with ...
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Suggestions for tree (as a visualization tool) editing software?
I'm trying to generate a call tree for code I'm working on (I didn't write it) to help me understand it. I want to be able to manually enter each function and the functions it calls (as children), ...
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How can I organize fast and comfortable solution compilation in VS 2010?
Most of programmers who are involved into development of more or less large project(s) know how annoying the process of compilation can be. There are some other things which are dependent on ...
