- Visual Money. Smart and Ambitious. — All software developers know: There are certain areas in the market where one would never try to compete — there are some Old, Greedy Huge-Budget and Long-History Monsters out there already, and «you’ll-never-bit-them». The trick is -there is a small share of presumptuous developers who still try to take their steps in such markets — and they win! (Much more often than you might think, actually.) Sometimes they even…
- HexCmp2. Comparing All Bytes — The essence of just about any programmer’s work is, obviously, processing data. Reading, creating, converting, writing or visualizing data is what nearly all any modern program does. So, a programmer’s daily activity, besides «just writing code», mostly consists of preparing, reading and analyzing data. And having good tools for the task is very important for the overall productivity. A very large part of the…
- Astanda Directory Project 1.3. A Mature Catalog — Have your ever dreamed (or tried?) of creating your own DMOZ-like archive with links, descriptions, categories, with the serious level of all that? Then you definitely know the difficulties of such task. The development of a catalog engine «from scratch» gives troubles even for experienced developers or teams, for the amount time and money you can spend on the project (without any guaranty of success) is huge. On the other…
- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- CompareData 1.4.0, Advanced Database Diff — Comparing the content of two databases or their parts is a frequent task of technical specialists in DB-aware environment. Finding differences in two datasets is an important task for migrations (changing DB structure or engine), replications, backup/restore procedures, and other analysis issues. Writing a custom program for each case is inefficient. Fast visual application for dataset comparison (diff), understanding several…
- Directory Report - the great feeling of complete control over your files and folders — If you deal with vast arrays of information and thousands of files on a daily basis, you have probably come up with numerous tricks that help you manage and monitor all your files and folders. However, if the archive continues to grow (and so is the nature of all archives), you will inevitably face a situation when efficient file and folder management will become a vital necessity rather than something that you just want…
- Merge for Windows – quick and easy file comparison, merging and folder synchronization — If you are one of those «lucky ones» who work with hundreds of different files coming from various sources, you must be well aware of the difficulties associated with comparing different versions of the same files on a daily basis. A minor edit in a legal document may have serious implications on your or your client’s business and a single character added to the program code may cause serious…
- GALsync - an elegant solution for integrating multiple Active Directory forests — Full of partial integration of several Active Directory forests may be required in a number of situations. For instance, a company may be using two or more forests for different groups of employees — the core one for the company as a whole and a separate one for the international or regional sales personnel. Another example would be a company take-over or merger — two or more…
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