Tobler.SoftwareArchitecture()
John Tobler's somewhat ordered collection of thoughts and resources mostly related to software architecture and software engineering.
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[Tools] IIS Admin
This free tool, IIS Admin, overcomes a limitation where IIS only allows one configured default website at a time. It looks like a potentially useful addition to any Web developer's kit. See the explanation on the site for details.
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[General] HOWTO Restore Lost Shortcuts in your Windows XP "Send To" Context Menu
Suddenly, one day, I noticed that none of my target shortcuts were showing up in my "Send To" context menu on XP Pro. I use "Send To" *a lot* and it saves me quite a bit of time. What to do? I looked all over the Net and tried out recommendations from many threads with zero success. Then I found Shortcuts in the "Send To" folder not appearing in the menu ? , an article on Ramesh's Windows XP Troubleshooting site, that included a quick and easy VB Script that immediately solved my problem. I'm linking to it here so someone who reads this can find it more quickly than I did. -
[Tools] Visual Studio XGen
Visual Studio XGen is a free (GPL) code generator that uses XML and XSLT inside Microsoft Visual Studio .NET to produce HTML, ASP, ASP.net, SQL, C++, C#, and VB.
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[General] Making Science
Webloggers, go take the MIT Weblog Survey 2005 Make some science and become a statistic!
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[.NET General] About Invoke
As someone said, Justin Rogers article tells you more than you ever wanted to know about Invoke: WinForms UI Thread Invokes: An In-Depth Review of Invoke/BeginInvoke/InvokeRequred.
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[Tools] UMLet 5 Free UML Tool
If you are not already using it, go and get the wonderful absolutely must-have "fast and free" UML tool, UMLet. If you are using it, you may want to know that Version 5 is out now.UMLet is a tool for us agile, nimble folk! No crufty code generation or 200 page pseudo-marketecture reports here -- just what may be the quickest way to sketch UML this side of a whiteboard! -
[Tools] Avant Browser - tabbed IE browsing and more
Finally tiring of not having Mozilla-style tabbed browsing with MSIE, I somehow stumbled upon the free Avant Browser, self-billed as a "fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser." Until Microsoft wakes up and gives us a new browsing toy, you may also find Avant Browser useful. I have found it worthwhile enough to recommend it here. -
[Tools] Scott Hanselman recommends some cool new tools
Time to revisit Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List. He has added some nifty new tools to it.
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[Music Composition] SynthEdit and CSound
Lately, I have been doing a lot of research and experimentation with VST plugins, particularly synthesizers. In the near future, I will report many of the cool things I have found. It is extremely cool to be able to create your very own synthesizers.
In the Steinberg World of VST, the most fun tool I have seen yet is SynthEdit. To get a handle on synthesis at a more detailed level, though, it looks like the universal training ground is CSound. While built with a much older technology, CSound is great if you want to really understand how to go about creating sounds.
I highly recommend playing with both.
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[Tools] Java Path Finder (JPF)
Java PathFinder (JPF) is an Open-Source system contributed by NASA to verify executable Java bytecode programs. JDJ has an interesting article on it, "NASA Open-Sources Java Pathfinder." This is a somewhat historic moment, as this is the first Open-Source NASA program to be actively developed and hosted on SourceForge.