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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    I've been doing some work recently with a third-party module that generates an application's data access layer. One thing that annoyed me was that the underlying SQL queries all come out on one line. In my search for a tool that would format it into something readable I found Instant SQL Formatter. You can just copy your SQL into it, press the format button and then copy out the readable SQL.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭ocallagh


    http://www.ajaxload.info/

    I know not dev.. but is handy none the less. For loading gifs that need certain bg


  • Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭fasty


    https://github.com/mizage/DBUserDefaults

    DBUserDefaults, works like NSUserDefaults but with Dropbox! Quite cool!


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    poul111 wrote: »
    Oh, and how could I forget RockScroll, one of the best plugins for Visual Studio there.
    It might help everyone else agree with you if you explained what it does and why you find it so useful...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Sublime2 has completely replaced Notepad++ as my developers text editor of choice.

    It's brilliant. It's got all kinds of neat features like a file map (Kind of like a tiny version of the file that sits in the sidebar and allows you to quickly jump around it), support for VI key bindings, distraction free mode, a built in python interpreter, multiple select, fantastic autosave functionalityand more.

    It's not open source, it's about €50, but it does have a fully featured unlimited trial (With a nag notice that appears once or twice a week), and it's fully cross platform too.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2




  • Registered Users Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    oeb wrote: »
    Sublime2 has completely replaced Notepad++ as my developers text editor of choice.

    Tried it but find it way too slow to launch...I find notepad++ far faster to open so sticking with it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,348 ✭✭✭randombar


    Mac Based SW

    Coda
    Navicat
    Transmit
    Terminal
    Mamp
    KDiff
    Name Mangler
    Photoshop

    Any other gems for the Mac?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 36 mhkdeveloper


    26 Worth Knowing PHP Tools & Resources For Web Developers

    http://pelfusion.com/tools/26-worth-knowing-php-tools-resources-for-web-developers/


  • Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭Friel


    Kompozer

    Not quite at Dreamweaver level, but it could get there. Plus it's completely free.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    I spent the weekend porting my game to run with Chrome's Native Client and am quite in love with the whole thing, so it was very convenient that this GDC talk was posted yesterday. Answered quite a few of my questions!

    Porting games for Native Client


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica


    Snippet Compiler

    Very handy little tool for just firing together a bit of code quickly to see if it'll work properly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭bellylint


    Wanna see the web requests, and the returned response from your application, this lil web debugger has saved my @ss so much time since I came across it. N its free.

    www.fiddler2.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    Someone else posted this elsewhere in this forum but I just want to point it out again.

    http://www.pluralsight-training.net are offering free access to their video courses.

    Very MS influenced (that is mainly what they do) but still great information.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,372 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    I find soapUI really handy. I'm not sure exactly what it's official purpose and title is but I use it to create and edit SOAP .xml requests and view the responses that they get from a given WebService. Best used in conjunction with Fiddler2!


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,759 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Doing an online course learning Python and one of the professors teaching the course did developed this browser based Python interpretor.

    CodeSkulptor

    Very handy!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭RealistSpy




  • Registered Users Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Mmmm_Lemony


    Nice web application for creating sql db schema on the go.

    Unfortunately its silverlight based, so not great if you are linux. Found it very handy for illustrating mySQL schema for basic college projects etc... You can also export to multiple formats (requires a few tweaks to the sql but not too shabby). If you log in you can save the schemas created, but this is optional.

    dbschemaeditor.com/OnlineDB.aspx


  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭ThrowinShapes


    If this gets a more stable version then I'd definitely make the switch from Sublime Text 2
    http://brackets.io/


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭tobsey


    Create an SQL schema, populate data and run queries. Great for testing ideas if you don't have access to a server. Supports numerous RDBMS:

    http://sqlfiddle.com/

    Similar to the above but for javascript/html/css.

    http://jsfiddle.net/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 17 dxter


    One tool that I have not yet seen listed here is:

    Website Analysis and Review SEO Tool by iwebchk - which is basically a full website audit tool providing website analysis in performance, validity, seo, and social media.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    I havnt used these guys yet but I am planning to on my next projectand not sure if its a developer tool or resource but I end up doing this sort of analysis for clients anyway. its free for now and I have heard great things

    https://sumall.com/


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,639 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Free education course edX - www.edx.org.
    Numerous topics, including software engineering.
    I'm trying the Software as a service one myself, which uses VM and Ruby.
    One cavaet in that, is need to really purchase the textbook to keep up with video lectures.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,402 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    Probably well known, but I just stumbled across these online compilation tools today:

    codepad - simple online compiler/interpreter & collaboration. Example code snippet.

    This looks like a more featured version of the same: http://www.compileonline.com/

    Two more:
    http://ideone.com/
    http://codetwist.com/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    This is a fantastic resource if you want to get started on Linux Kernel Programming. This course is backed by Robert Love, and the guy running it is a co-author of his.

    Enjoy!

    Introduction to Linux Kernel Programming


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    Vundle
    Syntastic
    my .vimrc:
    syntax on
    se nu
    set autoindent
    set cindent
    
    set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/vundle/
    call vundle#rc()
    
    " let Vundle manage Vundle
    " required!
    Bundle 'gmarik/vundle'
    
    
    Bundle 'scrooloose/syntastic'
    let g:syntastic_enable_signs=1
    let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list=1
    let g:syntastic_mode_map = { 'mode': 'active', 'active_filetypes': ['c'], 'pa
    ssive_filetypes': ['html', 'css', 'slim'] }
    
    Bundle 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
    Bundle 'scrooloose/nerdcommenter'
    nmap <leader># :call NERDComment(0, "invert")<cr>
    vmap <leader># :call NERDComment(0, "invert")<cr>
    Bundle 'majutsushi/tagbar'
    Bundle 'gregsexton/gitv'
    Bundle 'sjl/splice.vim'
    Bundle 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
    

    See the attached image for syntastic in action


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 2,588 Mod ✭✭✭✭KonFusion


    Can't remember if I found this here?

    Anyway, big list of free programming books:

    https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md


  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭ThrowinShapes


    Been working on a barebones project scaffold for mobile first site development. Might be of some use!
    https://github.com/tjFogarty/mobile-first-scaffold


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭smcelhinney


    Not sure if anyone has mentioned WebStorm? It's not free, but boy is it worth the couple a quid. I love it - really good clever syntax highlighting and code completion, boilerplate Node project templates, SASS watch and compile, love it.

    Definitely my fave web dev IDE at the moment, fully made the switch from Coda 2.

    Webstorm by JetBrains


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