Developer Required Tools

DBohner-(db)

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All,

I'm not sure that anyone has attempted to list all the great Cheap or FREE tools that us Developers recommend to each other, on a daily basis, so I thought I'd toss a few darts toward the subject.

Free:
- OWDLC (OneWorld Debug Commander) - http://www.everestsoftint.com/products_owdlc.php
- Patwel's Object Browser - http://www.patwel.com/downloads/index.htm
- Patwel's JDETrace - http://www.patwel.com/downloads/index.htm
- Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Cheap:
- Beyond Compare ($30-$50) - http://www.scootersoftware.com/


The above tools get installed on every new E1 Developer Machine I get assigned (the day it gets assigned)...

What, 'on the cheap' tools do the rest of you recommend?

(db)
 
If Beyond Compare's price is too steep I have used ExamDiff (ExamDiff) and it works well

I also use WinSQL Lite which is a free tool and there is a paid version as well. (WinSQL)
 
AWSOME thread idea. In addition to what has all ready been listed here are some of the tools I use pretty much every day when doing JDE dev work.


UltraEdit
IMO the BEST text file and general purpose code editor.

SelectVar
When Scott Beebe showed me this I almost cried over all the wasted years of writing ER code w/o it. You can get it here: http://jde.mywwsoft.com/

Performance Workbench.exe
Oracle's Log parser... actually not too bad, I use it quite a bit.

Snagit
Screen shot utility

And, if your C compiler used to compile BSNFs is VC++ 2008 or earlier (ours is 2005) I install either VS2010 or VC++ 2010 Express edition and use that as my IDE and Debugger. Intellisense is VASTLY improved over previous versions... as in, it actually works.
 
There are 3 tools I normally use and these are free too. They are listed below in order of importance to me. They are available at on my web site at http://jde.mywwsoft.com

SelectVar - Makes the selection of variables in assignment statements and data structure selections much easier by allowing you to search on the tree list instead of browsing through it. When you have an application like P4210 that has hundreds of variables it makes life much easier.

VB Script to run UBE's Locally - Many of the clients I go to do not have UBE's running locally as a default so I always have to override the running location. To eliminate all the mouse clicking to make this happen I wrote a script to do it for me.

E1 Script Builder - I have used this tool to make it easier to create table conversions based on a list field names. For conversions it works great because some data files can have dozens of fields or more. The tool also helps when you need to create lots and lots of variables. The tool works by creating a script that sends the needed keystrokes to E1 to do all the work for you. But, as pamela has pointed out it doesn't always work for all versions of E1. I haven't updated it for a while.
 
Not sure about ExamDiff but there is another one called KDIFF that works really well. Beyond Compare is great but in the case of a free one, KDIFF worked great.

Great thread since these types of tools are excellent to have and let others know about.
 
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