Showing posts with label software development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label software development. Show all posts

Friday, 21 August 2009

From the creator of TortoiseSVN, here are more free tools

If you use SubVersion (SVN) for source code (and other) control, then you must know of TortoiseSVN, “The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control”. 
But, did you know that there are other great tools from some of the authors?
 
Stefan’s Tools is the author’s site where you can find these tools – some of which are SVN related:
FavIconizer: [110KB] scan all links you have in your favourites and check if the website has a FavIcon. If it has one, FavIconizer will download that icon and adjust the link in the favourites to use that
CommitMonitor: [1.2MB] small tool to monitor various Subversion repositories for new commits
DemoHelper: [70KB] an annotation and screen zoom tool you can use for technical presentations that include application demonstrations 
Info
grepWin: [500KB] simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This allows to do much more powerful searches and replaces.
SKTimeStamp: [300KB] very simple shell extension which adds a new page to the Explorer properties dialog. On that new page, you can change the file/folder dates and times.
StExBar: [400KB] provides many useful commands for your everyday use of Windows explorer. And you can add as many custom commands on your own as you like
MailNoter: [112KB] small tool to help gathering notes from various applications, but specifically from browsers
trafficWatcher: [130KB] small tool to monitor your network activity.  Unlike other tools, trafficWatcher can differ between traffic inside your LAN and the traffic that reaches the Internet.  Note: you must first install WinPCap [900KB]!

Oh, and course, if you need TortoiseSVN then here’s more info: TortoiseSVN

To support Stefan’s further development of these tools, please consider making a donation

Sunday, 3 May 2009

If you're into software development of the GUI kind, then here's a Pencil that you can't do without - and it's free!

If you're a software developer who loves putting GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) together then this free tool is for you.
Pencil turns your Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400 Kb installation package.

Pencil will always be free and can run on virtually all platforms that Firefox 3 supports.

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and OpenSource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Top features:
  • Built-in stencils for diagramming and prototyping
  • Multi-page document with background page
  • On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
  • PNG rasterizing
  • Undo/redo supports
  • Installing user-defined stencils
  • Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...
  • Cross-platforms
  • Adding external objects

Click over to their home page and read the quick instructions for end users to start using Pencil in just half an hour.


Oh, and if you don't use Firefox (for some reason), then there's a stand-alone install (8.6MB) as well WinXP, Vista, Linux.
See here for the download options: download Pencil



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