Since I have been reading the book "The Pragmatic Programmer", I see the importance of using the available tools that you can find online. I have a requirement to add to a installer a zipped folder of the GlassFish (Java App Server) and then unzip it to process some files there and have GF running as...

Yesterday I explained how you could manage your iPod through Windows Explorer . Having this ability opens up more powerful ways of managing your iPod. One of these ways for example is the ability to automatically sync your master archive stored on your computer, with your iPod. In my case it's stored...

Do you own an iPod? Are you tired of using iTunes? If you answered positive to both questions, read on! This article describes how you can manage your iPod through Windows Explorer . Read more at http://blog.cumps.be/manage-ipod-through-windows-explorer/

You’re an audiophile, and you wish to listen to music in the highest possible quality , but on the other hand, you don’t have that much disk space at your disposal to store everything as wave files. What are you to do? Meet Free Lossless Audio Codec , or FLAC for the friends. Read more at http://blog...

We just released Data Dictionary Creator version 1.2 to CodePlex . Version 1.2 adds a lot of great features: Added documentation of tables as well as columns Changed Excel export from HTML based to XMLSpreadsheet to support separate worksheets for Table and Column documentation Improved error handling...

Lately I hear about a lot of people using VPC that their keyboard suddenly stops working inside VPC. There are a different number of keyboard issues I've heard of so far: Keyboard stops working all together. Keyboard freaks out. (CTRL key stuck) Keyboard and mouse lock up. The first issue is the one...

A long time ago, I talked about Differencing Disks in Virtual PC . Most people just have a base image and difference from that. A fairly basic technique by now. The next step however, is to think about differencing from a differencing disk. Using this technique you can set up the following collection...

On Tuesday I was one of several presenters at the San Diego .NET User Group 's second annual Toolbox meeting . The presentations were supposed to be "rapid-fire (15 – 20 minutes), brief presentations", but I kind of took it to the extreme. I presented eleven of my favorite tools in...

I replaced Notepad with Notepad2 on all my computers when Roy Osherove recommended it back in 2004 . I've really appreciated it - it's small and lightweight like Notepad, but has some great features like syntax highlighting, block selection, and regular expression search. A week ago, Jeff Atwood sent...

Update 10/23/06 for the IE7 Release version Summary I just released a new version of the IE7 Standalone Launcher . Due to changes in this beta release of IE7, a simple batch file alone won't cut it. You can grab a zip package (two batch files, two reg files) on the new tools.veloc-it.com site. Finally...