Questions about development tools and other tools that are useful especially to programmers.
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Tool helping with estimations [closed]
I am looking for a tool supporting me with estimations.
What I would like to do is to specify a higher level task and break it into several smaller tasks. When a task is small enough, I could assign ...
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Class of problems solvable by sed or stream editors
I've came across a question transform this text with sed [sed only]
and it got me wondering what class of problems is solvable by stream editors or programs/computational models with similar ...
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JavaScript refactoring tool [closed]
I'm on the process of refactoring a large JavaScript application, which has a lot of repeated functions with 2 or 3 different parameters, a lot of global variables used in several modules, etc.
Which ...
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Git-friendly spreadsheet format?
We're trying to move our project documentation process from Google Documents to a set of self-hosted Git repositories.
Text documents are Git-friendly enough, since we usually do not need any fancy ...
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what tools should I use for quality assurance and testing for front end javascript? [closed]
I am using jquery and HTML 5 techniques (like File API, HistoryAPI) extensively in a project I am working on.
I was wondering what tools I can use for
quality assurance my javascript and front ...
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What tools or techniques are useful for describing an unfamiliar codebase?
When manually inspecting unfamiliar code (to review or modify), I seem to have three options.
A top-down read of the code, choosing each next source file by how fundamental the filename seems. I ...
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A proper file monitoring tool for Windows with notifications [closed]
Developing in PHP, I'm usually confronted with various log files: apache, web apps, error logs etc.
I'm currently using Notepad++ with the option to notify me when a file has changed. But when I need ...
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1answer
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Dependency Management tool for REST endpoints
I work in a Rest Oriented environment. The number of endpoints is quite large and span multiple applications. The dependencies between the endpoints are large in number as well and not very well ...
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Command Line Tool to generate a method usage report
Is there a command line tool (preferred) that'll generate a report of Java methods within a class and where they are used within a few project folders. Kind of how Netbeans does a "Find Usage" on open ...
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Is there such a thing as a specification-code framework?
I've been googling for a while and can't fathom why this doesn't exist yet.
By a specification-code workflow I mean a system which links code to it's specification. For example I could be looking at ...
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What is a good support knowledge base tool? [closed]
I have been searching for a tool to help my team organize its knowledge for resolving recurring support cases.
Context: our team is developing and supporting an huge applications (lots of ...
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How to better integrate a unix development environment into Windows [closed]
I'm mostly a Windows user but I do most of my development (essentially web development) using unix tools and software. I've been going back and forth between using a dedicated lubuntu virtual machine ...
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Universal code signing tool [closed]
I have a code signing certificate. I'd like to sign as many of my apps (.apk, .ipa, .ipk, .jar, .exe, .dll) as possible, including browser extensions.
Is there some 'universal' code signing tool that ...
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Picking a code review tool [closed]
We are a startup looking to migrate from Fogbugz/Kiln to a new issue tracker/code review system. We are very happy with Jira, especially the configurability, but we are undecided on a code review ...
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Automated deployment/installation of development tools [closed]
My team is looking to automate installation/deployment of all of our development tools.
The main driver for this is to ensure that everyone in the team has a consistent development environment setup ...
