Development Tools, libraries and more n°1

Hi, I wish to do some post about some helpful, exciting and great tools I knew, discovered from the net, and from my job experience. I'm a supporter in sharing knowledge, so I wish to share with you what I found. I've learned so much from the net, and from other shared with me..!

Today I want to start speaking about some well known technologies as: Javascript and AJAX (again! I wish I'm going to start speaking about much more!!).

 

Some time ago I knew from a friend of mine a library about javascript called Mootools. I was so exited when I found it and when I tried what could be done with it, that I started to play with, and including in my projects. Why I was so exited?! Just two reasons: first, it's so spectacular what it's possible to do with, second, years ago I started to think javascript in that manner, but there anyone could believe javascript so.

 

Following my "discovery", I started to looking for related technologies, and the things came up were so exciting, I found many other libraries doing the same (in some manner) but each one with some added value. Recently I found one of the best: Ext Library.

This library is more than a simple Javascript library, is a set of controls, codes, utilities, in other words, a World!

For now I will not say more about, I wish let you discover some features, next I will post about Ext.

 

With this fabulous library I found some other exciting things, a development environment, one of the best IDE Javascript, PHP, Rudy, and more. The most exciting feature is the Javascript Debugging one. Have to take a look! This is the Aptana IDE 1.0. Aptana is a free and commercial IDE, in the site you will find videos, examples a much much more! take a look!

 

Next post I will do, I wish to start directly with links and possible examples, with few words from "me"!

 

Recap:

Mootools Javascript Library:

http://mootools.net

 

ExtJS Javascript Library

http://extjs.com

 

Aptana IDE 1.0 (The Web 2.0 IDE)

http://www.aptana.com

 

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Helpful tools n°3

Today I found a new product online, this could be very helpful and interesting, i noticed about it from a monthly newsletter, the product is a free-to-use UML Designer for Visual Studio, the tool is from the TangibleArchitect.
It seems to be an ineteresting tool, even if few diagrams are implemented, but I wish to take a try and then write something more about.
The product download can be found at: http://www.tangiblearchitect.net/modellingtools.html

Ciao

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Helpful tools n°2

Yesterday night I was looking for some news from an open source project, accidentally I found 2 interesting tools, one from Microsoft and one from Businessware Architects.

The one from Microsoft is the XSDObjectGen, a tool for gerating code, pure classes, from xsd Schemas. It's free to download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=89e6b1e5-f66c-4a4d-933b-46222bb01eb0&displaylang=en

The one from Businessware Architects is the CodeXS, a code generation tool who does the same as XSDObjectGen and XSD tools from Microsoft. The Only difference is that CodeXS is open source and more, efficient, modular... It's frre to download (registration required) at: http://www.bware.biz/default.htm?http://www.bware.biz/DotNet/Development/CodeXS/Article/Article_web.htm. There's also an interesting article related to the tool which take a tour over functionality and more.

So I wish to take a try to evaluate the potential from that tool. Maybe one could say I found nothing new to the folks, but before yesterday I never saw that tools, so I want to examinee how can I use them in my projects.

Ciao!

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Helpful tools n°1

Yesterday's evening I was navigating and writing some code, line after line, I took a tour on the SharpDevelop Web Site, I love that tool, in the past years frequently I took a tour in the source code, to learn, to see what has been done.

So I went to the SharpDevelop Wiki and I found a wonderful online tool, a Code Converter. The tool is exposed as Web service and makes use of NRefactory to convert code.

The link is http://codeconverter.sharpdevelop.net/Default.aspx here you can find:

1. a class converter:
   http://codeconverter.sharpdevelop.net/Convert.aspx
   the supported convertsions are:
   1. C# to VB.NET
   2. C# to Boo
   3. VB.NET to C#
   4. VB.NET to Boo
2. a snippet converter:
   http://codeconverter.sharpdevelop.net/SnippetConverter.aspx
   the supported convertions are C# to VB.NET and vice versa.
3. a code formatter:
   http://codeconverter.sharpdevelop.net/FormatCode.aspx
   supports ASP/XHTML, BAT, Boo, Coco, C++.NET, C#, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Patch, PHP, TeX, VBNET, XML

It's possible too to use these features in client applications directly using and calling the web service.

As example I tried to format and colorize an xml chunk as:

<configuration target="StandardDatabaseConfig">
<provider name="testProvider" refTo="XmlProvider, TestLib.Providers" />
</configuration>

the result is:

1:  <configuration target="StandardDatabaseConfig">

2:     <provider name="testProvider" refTo="XmlProvider, TestLib.Pr

oviders" />

3:  </configuration>

Fantastic tool!

Ciao!

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