Contents tagged with Tools
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Inkscape 0.45 Released
Inkscape 0.45 is now officially released and available for download. -
Getting Cropper to work in Vista
UPDATE: A new version of Cropper with these changes has been released. Grab it here: http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx
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[tip] Use the Database Publishing Wizard to script your table data
Jeff Atwood recently asked "Is your database under version control?" Well, is it? It's not as easy as it sounds. Until now, there wasn't a good, scriptable solution to the problem. I'll run through a few of the options I've looked at in the past, but let's jump to to the punchline:
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Creating a User Defined Language in Notepad++
I just posted about adding PowerShell syntax support to Notepad++ by adding a User Defined Language definition. It's pretty simple; here's a quick overview of how I did it. For a more in depth overview of the User Defined Language system, check out the Notepad++ docs. -
PowerShell Language Definitions for Notepad++
I saw a request on the Notepad++ forums today to add PowerShell syntax support. Notepad++ has a pretty good extension system for adding user defined languages, so I went ahead and put on together. You can grab it from the Notepad++ download area (zip download). Installation information is in the included readme file - you extract the zip, rename a file, and drop it in your %APPDATA%\Notepad++\ directory.1
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Data Dictionary Creator 1.2 is out on CodePlex
We just released Data Dictionary Creator version 1.2 to CodePlex. Version 1.2 adds a lot of great features:
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Animated GIF Plugin for Cropper + some .NET Animated GIF code
Cropper is a great free screen capture program. It has a cool plugin system which lets you send the screenshots anywhere you can write code to send it. I wrote a plugin to save a portion of the screen to an Animated GIF. -
Batch files to check SQL 2005 (MDF) files in and out of Subversion source control
Here are a few batch files I whipped up to help our team keep development databases in sync with our Subversion repository. These handle detach / reattach from the database, so running the checkout script has us the latest version in the repository in twenty seconds.
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[Tool] RegmonToRegfile - Record and playback registry changes
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Free OCR software? You may already have it...
Update (2011): This post describes using a little know feature of Microsoft Office which does a good job with OCR. It was written 5 years ago, but still gets a lot of traffic. Unfortunately, Office 2010 removes that feature (Microsoft Office Document Imaging).