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September 16th, 2009 Comments off

Development packages

Assembler

C/C++ language

UI Libraries

Web

  • Winginx – local web server for PHP5, MySQL, MongoDB – a handy tool for web development!
  • XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start
  • SiteFusion is a server-based development environment. Applications are written in pure object-oriented PHP and work through a thin XUL client. SiteFusion applications look and behave like native system applications but run on a server generating JavaScript commands.
  • WebMatrix is a free web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for website development. Start from open source web applications, built-in web templates or just start writing code yourself. It’s all-inclusive, simple and best of all free. Developing websites has never been easier.

Subversion

  • The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control (TortoiseSVN) – TortoiseSVN is an easy-to-use SCM / source control software for Microsoft Windows and possibly the best standalone Subversion client there is. It is implemented as a Windows shell extension, which makes it integrate seamlessly into the Windows explorer. Since it’s not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like.
  • Commit-monitor for Subversion repositories (commitmonitor) – Monitors Subversion repositories for new commits and shows a notification to the user when that happens.
  • VisualSVN makes your life easier with a reliable plug-in that integrates Subversion seamlessly with Visual Studio.
  • VisualSVN Server makes the Subversion server easy and convenient to install and administer on Windows.
  • Slik SVN
  • Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.

Git

File compirising

Testing

  • MouseController – Records and plays back mouse actions
  • WinUnit
  • Microsoft Application Verifier
  • MiniFuzz – is a basic testing tool designed to help detect code flaws that may expose security vulnerabilities in file-handling code. This tool creates multiple random variations of file content and feeds it to the application to exercise the code in an attempt to expose unexpected and potentially insecure application behaviors.

Debugging

  • Visual Leak Detector for Visual C++ 2008/2010/2012/2013
  • The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process. The tool includes additional debugging scripts focused on Internet Information Services (IIS) applications, web data access components, COM+ and related Microsoft technologies.
  • Debugging Tools for Windows (part of Windows Driver Kit (WDK))
  • VMMap
  • DebugView for Windows
  • !exploitable Crash Analyzer
  • Microsoft Application Verifier
  • SymStore – (symstore.exe) is a tool for creating symbol stores. It is included in the Debugging Tools for Windows package. SymStore stores symbols in a format that enables the debugger to look up the symbols based on the time stamp and size of the image (for a .dbg or executable file), or signature and age (for a .pdb file). The advantage of the symbol store over the traditional symbol storage format is that all symbols can be stored or referenced on the same server and retrieved by the debugger without any prior knowledge of which product contains the corresponding symbol.
  • gDEBugger CL it will bring gDEBugger’s advanced Debugging, Profiling and Memory Analysis abilities to the OpenCL developer’s world, helping OpenCL developers find bugs, optimize parallel computing application performance and memory consumption.
  • TraceTool 12.4 – the Swiss-Army Knife of Trace
  • APISpy32
  • FocusFlasher
  • WinSpy++
  • MiniSpy
  • API Monitor – is a software that monitors and displays API calls made by applications. Its a powerful tool for seeing how Windows and other applications work or tracking down problems that you have in your own applications. The current version include Filters to monitor the following API Categories.
  • InspectExe – lets you explore and diagnose problems with Win32 applications. It is integrated directly into the Windows® Explorer and adds as a set of extra pages in the Properties sheet for the selected executable file. Look at the screen shots atthe bottom of this page to see examples of the information it displays.
  • Dependency Walker – is a free utility that scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules. For each module found, it lists all the functions that are exported by that module, and which of those functions are actually being called by other modules. Another view displays the minimum set of required files, along with detailed information about each file including a full path to the file, base address, version numbers, machine type, debug information, and more.
  • dumpbin from Visual Studio tools (VC\bin folder) can help here:
    dumpbin /dependents your_dll_file.dll
  • Network Sniffers

Tools

  • Expresso – The premier regular expression development tool. The award-winning Expresso editor is equally suitable as a teaching tool for the beginning user of regular expressions or as a full-featured development environment for the experienced programmer or web designer with an extensive knowledge of regular expressions.
  • Edraw Max is an all-in-one graphics software that makes it simple to create professional-looking flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams, business presentations, building plans, mind maps, fashion designs, UML diagrams, workflows, program structures, web design diagrams, electrical engineering diagrams, directional maps, database diagrams and more.
  • WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

Tools – JSON

Tools – Development process

  • TestTrack Pro – Tracking defects, issues, and feature requests is a critical component of any software development and quality control process. The earlier and quicker bugs are resolved, the lower your development cost and the higher your product quality. TestTrack Pro puts improved quality, communication, and reporting within reach. Use TestTrack Pro and create better software in less time.
  • Perforce is a proven SCM solution for your valuable code and digital assets.
  • TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful, Free and Open Source Software project management tool. Its new approach to project planing and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools. TaskJuggler is project management software for serious project managers. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.
  • Agile Planner – this tool is for agile project teams, who currently are using sticky notes on the wall. With this tool stories, backlog and iterations are managed in a graphic designer, saved as files within visual studio projects and can be exported to images, reports and etc.

Tools – Build

  • Hudson – extensible continuous integration server

Tools – SQL

Tools – UML

  • PlantUML – is a component that allows to quickly write : sequence diagram, use case diagram, class diagram, activity diagram, component diagram, state diagram and object diagram.
  • UMLet – Free UML Tool for Fast UML Diagrams. UMLet is an open-source UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements.
  • Violet UML Editor –  is a UML editor with these benefits: Very easy to learn and use. Draws nice-looking diagrams. Completely free. Cross-platform. Violet is intended for developers, students, teachers, and authors who need to produce simple UML diagrams quickly.
  • StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational Rose, Together and so on.
  • ArgoUML – is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages.
  • BOUML – is a free UML 2 tool box allowing you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, Idl, Php and Python.
  • Dia – is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for GNU/Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license.
  • WebSequenceDiagrams –

Utilities – Windows SysInternals

  • Process Explorer
  • Autoruns for Windows
  • Handle – is a utility that displays information about open handles for any process in the system.
  • ListDLLs – is able to show you the full path names of loaded modules – not just their base names.
  • VMMap – VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility.
  • DebugView for Windows – is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP.

Utilities

OS

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My Environment

September 16th, 2009 Comments off

Windows Shortcuts

Windows

Windows Update

Windows Utilities

  • the-sz.com – Office Applications, Network Applications and Development Tools.
  • MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition 9
  • Fiddler (The free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform)
  • PC-Wizard – is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It’s able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.
  • BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy.
  • Manage it! Is a new, portable, easy way to manage your computer. Changes registry, setting timer for shutdown, etc. *Manage It! is new version of MSV System Utilities.
  • UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD.
  • Inobitec DICOM Viewer – Просмотрщик медицинских снимков

Recovery Tools

  • TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
  • MHDD.RU – лаборатория восстановления данных
  • PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.
  • FreeRecover is a free file recovery program for NTFS drives. It allows you to search though and preview deleted files to find lost data. It also estimates the integrity of the deleted files, as well as retrieves their original file paths.
  • SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.

Ubuntu

Mac OS

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Using SetForegroundWindow on Windows Owned by Other Processes

September 15th, 2009 No comments

In modern versions of Windows (XP, Vista, and beyond), the API call SetForegroundWindow() will bring the specified window to the foreground only if it’s owned by the calling thread. The following code removes this limitation and provides a workaround:

void NewSetForegroundWindow(HWND hWnd)
{
    if (GetForegroundWindow() != hWnd)
    {
        DWORD dwMyThreadID = GetWindowThreadProcessId(GetForegroundWindow(), NULL);
        DWORD dwOtherThreadID = GetWindowThreadProcessId(hWnd, NULL);
        if (dwMyThreadID != dwOtherThreadID)
        {
            AttachThreadInput(dwMyThreadID, dwOtherThreadID, TRUE);
            SetForegroundWindow(hWnd);
            SetFocus(hWnd);
            AttachThreadInput(dwMyThreadID, dwOtherThreadID, FALSE);
        }
        else
        {
            SetForegroundWindow(hWnd);
        }
        if (IsIconic(hWnd))
        {
            ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_RESTORE);
        }
        else
        {
            ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOW);
        }
    }
}

Another (but more intrusive and restrictive) way to make SetForegroundWindow() behave the same way as it did on Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 is to change the foreground lock timeout value SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT, as described in this MSDN document.

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Finnish holidays for future years

June 7th, 2009 No comments

The University Almanac Office was established at the end of 1994, when the old privilege of University of Helsinki to publish calendars and almanacs in Finland was abolished. The Almanac Office has a staff of three astronomers.

Official Finnish holidays

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The Big Three

June 4th, 2009 No comments



PowerPoint 97-2003 Show (7-zip)

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RAM Disk utilities

May 31st, 2009 No comments



PowerPoint 97-2003 Show (7-zip)

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Example of overloading method

May 18th, 2009 No comments 
class COverload
{
public:
  COverload(int p) : m_intValue(p)
  { std::cout << "COverload::COverload() " << m_intValue << std::endl; };

  virtual ~COverload()
  { std::cout << "COverload::~COverload()" << std::endl; };

public:
  void overload(void)
  { std::cout << "COverload::overload() " << ++m_intValue << std::endl; };

  void overload(void) const
  { std::cout << "COverload::overload() const " << m_intValue << std::endl; };

protected:
  int m_intValue;
};

int main(void)
{
  COverload const dd(2);
  dd.overload();

  COverload bb(3);
  bb.overload();
}
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64 bits for developers

April 16th, 2009 No comments



PowerPoint 97-2003 Show (7-zip)

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Virtual Functions

April 16th, 2009 No comments



PowerPoint 97-2003 Show (7-zip)

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Internet Explorer 8

March 20th, 2009 No comments

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