"I have built a tool that allows me to instrument those classes that I am interested so that when I start the system, it will print out all the entry points when they execute. Entry point is the lowest method of the stack trace that you are interested. The tool is based on AspectJ which allows me to inject some print statements when certain methods are executed."
Beckhoff implements open automation systems based on PC Control technology. The product range covers Industrial PCs, I/O and Fieldbus Components, Drive Technology and automation software. Products that can be used as separate components or integrated into a complete and seamless control system are available for all industries.
"SQLite Database Browser is a freeware, public domain, open source visual tool used to create, design and edit database files compatible with SQLite"
"Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application."
"Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments."
"If you spend a lot of time typing plain text, writing programs or HTML, you can save much of that time by using a good editor and using it effectively. This paper will present guidelines and hints for doing your work more quickly and with fewer mistakes."
"SparkleShare is a syncing and collaboration tool...
SparkleShare allows you to host your own service with ease, so that you are always in control of your data...
Not only doesn't SparkleShare cost you anything, you also have access to the full source code of it."
"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing."
"Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software."
"We help online businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing and credit card storage."
"Syntastic is a syntax checking plugin that runs buffers through external syntax checkers as they are saved and opened. If syntax errors are detected, the user is notified and is happy because they didn't have to compile their code or execute their script to find them."
"Apt-Cacher differs from apt-mirror in that it does not mirror the entire repository contents, but simply caches (stores) any packages requested by clients within the network. In other words, it works as a middle man between the public repository and the LAN clients, sharing any common downloads internally."
"One of the best talks at Railsconf was given by John Athayde on Curing Div-itis with Semantic Html, CSS, and Presenters"
"Scott sits down with designer Jin Yang to talk about the fundamental differences between developers and designers. Are we a totally different breed? How should designers and developers work together? Should designers code their own sites?"This was a good discussion. Enjoyed Jin Yang's practical view of being a designer.
"In addition to excelling as an HTML editor, SCREEM also lends itself to being a versatile XML editing package, perfect for use as a general purpose structured data editing environment."
"The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work."
"You look forward to the first hit of the game. I tell them to call a play where somebody misses a block. If you don't get hit, you're always waiting for it to happen. It's better to get it out of the way early."I like this quote from Joe Montana. It seems applicable to more than just football.
"Pairwise (a.k.a. all-pairs) testing is an effective test case generation technique that is based on the observation that most faults are caused by interactions of at most two factors. Pairwise-generated test suites cover all combinations of two therefore are much smaller than exhaustive ones yet still very effective in finding defects"
"jVi is a plugin for NetBeans that provides Vim-like key bindings. The good news is that it's close enough to be comfortable instead of frustrating."
"Then I found TextMate for Mac OS. The immediacy of TextMate made it easy to get started with, and it has many excellent features. The problem is, I’m not always using a Mac. But you know who’ll follow me around to every platform I use? Good old vim! So I started thinking, how could I make vim feel more like TextMate?"
Free ebook to be published later this year. Preview excerpts available now.
CalSky was founded in 1991 by Arnold Barmettler to offer amateur astronomers a new way to plan their observing sessions and to consult scientist and industry regarding questions related to astronomy and celestial mechanics.
"A collection of useful Rails generator scripts for scaffolding, layout files, authentication, and more."
"I found the shift from thinking in tests to thinking in behaviour so profound that I started to refer to TDD as BDD, or behaviour- driven development."
"Librelist is a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects... You can make a mailing list by simply sending an email... You also subscribe to a list by simply sending your first message..."
"This is the website for the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and published by Apress. Here you can find the full content of the book, a blog with tips and updates about Git and the book and open source projects related to Git or referenced in the book."
"Once the CSS was done, I was informed that I’d now need to take the tabular reporting table I just created and make it sort on any of the columns, get the data via AJAX calls to a flat file that would store the JSON for the dummy data, create nice drop-down date pickers so date ranges in the report could be chosen by the end user, page the data using a flickr-style pager so only 20 lines would show up on a page, and alternate the row colors in the table (and make sure that doesn’t break when you sort!)."
"The Web Deployment Tool simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites."
"With rsync (which is built into both MacOS, Linux, & FreeBSD, and can be installed on Windows) and a little shell scripting, you can mimic everything but the GUI and you don't need no stinking sparse files. I even wrote a little script that I'll share with you at the end of this post."Must try this when I get some more storage.
"Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or 'aggregators.' RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It's easy to configure and the best of all: It's platform-independent."
"Terrorism is a psychological war as much as a physical war. To win such a war, it is essential not to overreact. That is the crux of the matter. If you overreact, you become a force multiplier for the terrorists."And if you multiply that force, and you are in the business of making the public safeTM, you profit from it and gain power.
"There is a difference between indomitability and arrogant 'bring 'em on' rhetoric. There's a difference between accepting the inherent risk that comes with a free and open society, and hyping the threats.I think this is an excellent article by Bruce Schneier. It takes courage to be free. Too many would rather just be safeTM.
We should treat terrorists like common criminals and give them all the benefits of true and open justice -- not merely because it demonstrates our indomitability, but because it makes us all safer."
"GDocBackup exports all documents from Google Documents to local hard-disk. Runs on NET 2.0 / Mono (Win, Linux and Mac)"
"Despite the .VOC extension, they are not Creative Labs Sound Files. RCA-VOC is an undocumented proprietary format starting with the signature 'VCP162_VOC_File', not 'Creative Voice File'.
On March 28, 2008, I finally solved this format..."
"The following essays by Jack W. Reeves offer three perspectives on a single theme, namely that programming is fundamentally a design activity and that the only final and true representation of 'the design' is the source code itself"
My posts will be aimed at learners of any language, but I will be using those that I know as an example, including the one I happen to be currently learning. I will also be talking about specific languages.Now that I can see how easy it is to learn languages, I am constantly travelling to new countries and staying there (for around 3 months usually) and immersing myself in the language, although it can just as easily be done in the comfort of your own home with the right tools and attitude.
"In this series of articles I’ll show how to work with data contained in Access databases using PowerShell."
"We scan and digitize photos, slides, and negatives of any format using high-end commercial scanners that produce unmatched image quality."
"LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface."
"ExtPascal is an Object Pascal (Delphi, FreePascal/Lazarus) wrapper/binding for Ext JS, a complete GUI Ajax framework, made in JavaScript, for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development."
"FastSpring provides an all-in-one e-commerce payment processing, merchandising, and fulfillment solution."
"AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents... and special characters... in most Windows programs."
"The Jack PC's patented technology enables converting a standard LAN jack into a fully managed desktop PC, offering VDI support and connectivity to any type of popular Terminal, Citrix or Legacy server."
mkisofs -pad -b bootdisk.img -R -o bootdisk.iso bootdisk.img"Spoon lets you create web-hosted versions of your existing Windows apps that run instantly from your web site, with no install."
"rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals."
"AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values."
"The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations and virtualization without the use of any software agents."
"BlogScope is an analysis and visualization tool for blogosphere which is being developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto."
"This site collects many different feeds from blogs, newsgroups and other Delphi sites. We publish short excerpts from these postings or articles on the DelphiFeeds.com front page"
"Amongst software testing tools, a unit tester is the one closest to the developer. In the context of agile development the test code sits right next to the source code as both are written simultaneously. In this context SimpleTest aims to be a complete PHP developer test solution and is called 'Simple' because it should be easy to use and extend. It wasn't a good choice of name really. It includes all of the typical functions you would expect from JUnit and the PHPUnit ports, and includes mock objects."
"Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online."
"simplejson is compatible with Python 2.4 and later with no external dependencies. It covers the full JSON specification for both encoding and decoding, with unicode support."
"GDataCopier provides two command line utilities (the syntax of which largely resembles scp) that allow users to
* list documents on the Google document system
* export and import documents on the Google document system
Our target audience are system administrators (on Unix like platforms) who are looking to automate off site backups of their Google documents."
"So I guess to the extent that he puts me up on a pedestal for merely being practical, that's a pretty sad indictment of the state of the industry."
"Here is a collection of components for Delphi 2009"
"If an unreliable family member is asking you for a loan, proceed with caution."I'd say if ANY family member is asking you for a loan, proceed with caution.
"Most snippet solutions work only within one specific application; however it’s sometimes desirable to have a solution that can work across multiple applications, this is where AutoHotkey can help. I’m going to describe an AutoHotkey script that will allow you to seamlessly add and use text snippets in any application. The script is made up of three parts: defining a snippet from the script, adding a snippet to the script, and reloading the script after a snippet is added."
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.
Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.
Udi Dahan is an Enterprise Development Expert and also the author of NServiceBus. Udi educates Scott on how a service bus works, and how it fits into a world of brokers, workflows and services.
"Using our observatories to take your own astronomy images is easy! Once you have registered and purchased credits, simply book a telescope, connect to the observatory and start controlling: point the telescope at objects such as galaxies, nebula, binary stars and take pictures."
"The combination of Groovy and Grails offers productivity benefits rivaling Ruby on Rails, but on the proven, scalable, and seamlessly integrated Java platform."
"It's important to remember that the Nazis are passing out of living memory; U.S. soldiers of that era are said to be dying at the rate of 1,200 a day. Which makes it too easy, I think, for a nation of notorious historical illiteracy to remake the Nazis as some kind of all-purpose bogeymen for slandering political enemies and scoring cheap rhetorical points."
"DocX is a .NET library which allows developers to manipulate Word 2007 files, in an easy and intuitive manor. It does not use COM libraries nor does it require Office to be installed in order to function."
