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Visual Studio Add-ons

June 8, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

Another great “in depth” article was published in Visual Studio Magazine; this one by Peter Vogel entitled: 17 Free Tools for Visual Studio. The tools selected: LINQPad, LInQ Visualizer, SMTP4Dev, P/Invoke Interop Assistant , Regulator, Regex Editor Add-In, Fiddler, ProjectConverter, DevExpress CodeRush Xpress, VS10x Code Map v2, DPack, JScript Editor Extensions, XAML Styler, Code Metrics Viewer, [...]

Development, Tools

.NET, featured

Evernote API

June 4, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

Evernote is a useful service. I access this “note taking application” from all of my computing devices. It is a great way to organize ideas, maintain clips and links of interest and share information. The company’s growth is incredible. Here’s a snippet describing their subscriber base: Speaking of growing faster, here is Evernote’s registered user [...]

Tools, Usability

featured

dotPeek 1.0 EAP Now Available

May 18, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

I just received my developer notification for JetBrains new .NET decompiler tool. The company makes a number of great .NET development tools: ReSharper, dotTrace, and dotCover. This new tool, dotPeek, is now available free-of-charge as an Early Access Preview. Here’s their spin: What’s Cool about dotPeek? Decompiling .NET 1.0-4.0 assemblies to C# Quick jump to [...]

Development, Tools

.NET

Qt SDK 1.1 Released

May 11, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

From the Qt Developer email notification: Qt SDK 1.1 and Qt 4.7.3 Libraries released The Qt team is pleased to release the Qt SDK 1.1 for desktop and mobile development. Using the Qt SDK you benefit from the Qt Creator IDE as a starting point for your development and you can also speed up your [...]

Tools

featured, Qt

Visual Studio Async CTP

April 30, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

I just got the Visual Studio Async Community Technology Preview (SP1 Refresh) up and running and it is amazing. You can get it here. First, start with the Whitepaper: Asynchrony in .NET to get an overview of the new asynchronous features being developed for C#, Visual Basic and the .NET Framework. Then, download the C# [...]

Development, Tools

.NET

iOS Beta Builder

April 23, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

iOS Beta Builder is a very useful iOS deployment tool from a very generous developer, Hanchor LLC. An excerpt from the announcement: Enter ‘iOS BetaBuilder’ – a simple MacOS X app takes your archived IPA file and creates the required manifest and HTML files for wireless distribution. It even zips up a copy of the [...]

Deployment, Tools

iOS

“100% Code Coverage”

April 19, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

There’s a nice exchange of ideas going on in the DZone ‘Javalobby’ based on a Nicolas Frankel blog entry called “100% code coverage!” that was posted recently on “A Java geek!“. The original post is here. Frankel’s assertion “code coverage and test are completely different things” is right on the money… as is his very [...]

Development, Quality, Tools

quality, rant

MySQL Query Cache

April 17, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

First, for the uninitiated, here’s a little background: There are three primary MySQL caching techniques: file-based, application, and the built-in query cache. There’s a good overview of the techniques here. In the simplest sense, the MySQL Query Cache stores the text of the query and the result of the query in memory. The Query Cache [...]

Design, Tools

cache, mysql

Deployment, Development, Tools

Cloud, middleware, spring, vmware

JSON and Objective-C

April 14, 2011 by domvirgilio 0 Comments

The XML vs. JSON debate will flame on until another popular data-interchange format comes along. There are lots of opinions out there, but, sometimes, regardless of your opinion on the matter, a project calls for JSON. For .NET projects, the library of choice is James Newton-King’s Json.NET. But, until recently, those developing on Macs didn’t [...]

Development, Tools

iOS, JSON, Mac, Objective-C, parser

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