Questions about development tools and other tools that are useful especially to programmers.
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Is there a tool that visually represents all the potential paths to a particular piece of code? [on hold]
As an example of what I need and why I want it, I am trying to determine how a certain value (CurTotal) is getting set (wrongly). I've come up with these notes to myself to try to understand just what ...
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1answer
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Utilities to enhance Live Demo (on screen) experience [closed]
I often have to do live demos; sometimes involving the code. Often the demos happen over the web. Of course, I ensure that I avoid unnecessary windows, notifications, etc. But I think there might be ...
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How to keep your programming resources, tips, tools and snippets handy and easy to find? [closed]
In my everyday work and on my free time, I tend to discover/learn/find pieces of information that can be really useful if used at the right moment but also really easy to forget and/or to find again ...
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1answer
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Communication between programmers and system engineers. Tool for planning builds and maintenance jobs
We have Development department and the department of System Engineers that works on a big project (development of J2EE application).
We are using Build management system, Bug tracking system and a ...
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4answers
284 views
When is it appropriate to start using the next revision of a tool when dogfooding?
Specifically, I am working on a tool that integrates a DVCS and build system, but I image the challenge I am facing would arise for anyone developing a "meta" tool (compiler, VCS, build system, test ...
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7answers
960 views
When should we stop work and make tool?
As a software engineer, we are always eager to get effective tools to boost our productivity.
And in our daily work, we are often unsatisfactory with the existing tools and would like to have better ...
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9answers
459 views
Any tools/suggestions on how to refute code coverage quality argument
Now I know people could consider this question duplicate or asked many times, in which case I would appreciate a link to relevant questions with answer to my question.
I have been recently in ...
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1answer
142 views
Is there an equivalent to gnu parallel for windows? [closed]
gnu parallel is a small utility that allows you to execute bash commands in parallel. I was wondering if there's something similar for windows.
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Is the development of CLI apps considered “backward”?
I am a DBA fledgling with a lot of experience in programming.
I have developed several CLI, non interactive apps that solve some daily repetitive tasks or eliminate the human error from more complex ...
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4answers
720 views
Is physical Agile board “always” better than electronic tool?
Whenever the question comes up on which Agile tool to use use there always some people that answer "don't use an electronic tool because you will lose the big-visible-board advantage which better ...
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1answer
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Solving the last mile problem in software engineering [closed]
The more I write code the more I realize that writing the code is not the hard part. The hard part is making sure all the dependencies are in order, there are no hard coded paths, that I don't have ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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6answers
1k views
Git-friendly spreadsheet format? [closed]
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 ...
