Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

Apple Safari 3 review, overview (now for windows!)

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Grab the best browser on the planet! Apple launches Safari 3 beta for download and it is available now on Windows. If you hated IE and are the convert to Firefox ever since their inception, then look no back. Safari 3 goes and fixes all the shortcomings of their 2.x ...

The Best Free UML Tool, Eclipse plugin UML Tool

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Probably, the best free, "simple" lightweight UML Tool with an eclipse plugin, I've ever used and would recommend. How many times were you working at a client place who did not have an official UML Tool in their enterprise and you need one to draw a simple use case analysis diagram ...

Setting Up Trac on Windows

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

This is an adaption of this howto, without all the options. I'm setting up a test Trac project without SVN, and this is how I did it:

Metrics in Eclipse

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

I found an interesting plugin today: Metrics for Eclipse. It says the plugin is for Eclipse 3.1, but I'm using it with 3.2 and MyEclipse. The plugin gives you, among other things; Number of lines of code by package/project/class Number of methods Weighted methods per Class Lack of Cohesion Methods Number of children McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity - ...

Trac vs. XPlanner Death Match

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Trac kills XPlanner. Trac has more functionality. Trac has plugins and is easy to customize. Trac provides extensive reporting capabilities out of the box. Trac is more intuitive. The only thing XPlanner has going for it is that it makes use of buzz words... actually just a single buzz word: Story. And the ...

Ajaxterm: a web-enabled server terminal

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Ever want to access your server, but that pesky firewall at work only allows web access? AjaxTerm is the answer. It is a python application that creates a virtual CONSOLE for the server it is installed on. It is simple to install and launch, you just need to configure ...

Malware Removal

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

If you want to disinfect or check your computer, then I strongly recommend you start with http://castlecops.com It provides short guides to malware removal and preventions, links to freeware and shareware utilities, and forums to access experienced help. I had McAfee installed and running on the family PC. It still got ...

NOD32

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

For anyone who finds Norton Antivirus to be slow and a resource hog, I'd recommend NOD32 for firewall and antivirus protection. It loads much more quickly, and has won some awards I guess. Plus, it's got this cool eye logo that reminds me of Star Trek or something: You can't beat ...