- Clever Internet Suite 6.0. Paradise for VCL Network Programmer — Every professional Windows programmer knows the eternal dilemma: which library is to be used for the advanced networking? There is a number of OS-based APIs for different network tasks, but they are well-known for their uncoordinated and incomplete set. There are numerous third-party libraries, but you can hardly find a fully-functional and comprehensive one. Moreover, if you are VCL programmer, and your tool is Delphi or C++ Builder, your…
- Country Codes 2.7, Data at Fingertips — In today’s vague times of «common» unlimited broadband Internet connection (which is not so common, really) and «modern cool» web-services it is thought that one doesn’t have to store on one’s computer information one can find on web. People with such thoughts typically don’t take into account the amount of time they waste when to find a byte of frequently-used data…
- 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…
- PSpad, Code Looks Natural — Have you ever tried editing any programming code in the Windows’ standard notepad program? Wasn’t that easy and fun? I bet it was NOT. Although Notepad is light and easy to use, you can hardly recognize your even own code in it: no syntax highlighting or line numbering, and some important characters may even fail to appear. Is there a way to edit a code block without having to run those heavy development…
- Dis# 3.1.1, Back To Sources — The great feature of bytecode-based languages, and, namely, .NET assemblies, is a possibility to «return to source code» at any time. Assembly decompilation is a great tool to understand «how something works», either some general algorithms and data structures, or internal logics of some software or components. Unfortunately, simple decompilation tools give a very poor result which is hard to read…
- AntiPlagiarist 1.8, Where's Your Sources? — Digital century and digital style of work bring new possibilities to all of us, but they also bring new problems. And new ways to solve those new problems; and new unwanted effects of those ways… And one of the most general possibilities (and a source of the problems) is *possibility to copy*. Scientific works and home works, magazine articles and blogposts, even entire chapters in serious technical books are shamelessly copied…
- Virtual Music Composer 3.0 PRO, A Source For Inspiration — Regardless of how «intellectual» you think your computer is, you can’t disagree that today’s software programmers have many smart ideas, useful for the most of us. In the area of music writing, conservative musicians tend to see the computer as a smart keyboard (sometimes way too smart); modern musicians tend to see it as a cutting table for samples and effects. Almost nobody tries to use the…
- LiveProject Free Project Viewer, Read and Share Project Files Naturally — Can you even imagine having to install a heavy-weight editor just to view documents created with it; say, Photoshop for viewing images or MS Word for reading rich-text formatted documents? Doubtful, to say the least. Such idea sounds like an absurd. So many viewers are out there; they are light, easy to install and operate, and are specifically made for viewing necessary files. Now, what if we need open something really…
- Easy Projects .NET - manage projects of any complexity in style! — When it comes to managing projects (no matter small or large) — a couple of familiar titles immediately pop up in our heads. However, industry standards often employ a «one size fits all» approach, suffer from their size, complexity, excessive functionality, tons of unnecessary bells and whistles and, most importantly, from long setup and configuration times. Needless to say that you have to know these systems…
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