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Hands-on with the Google Chrome Development Tools

March 30, 2012 7:15am PDT

Ryan Boudreaux created a step-by-step look at the set of Google Chrome Developer Tools and demonstrated what you could learn about web pages using these tools to inspect, optimize, and test.

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Software Development Tools Comprehensive Listing

May 11, 2009 5:08am PDT

Software Development Tools Comprehensive Listing Is there a link you would recommend to a whitepaper or listing that would provide a comprehensive listing of all software development tools which...

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Eclipse gets PHP Development Tools

September 20, 2007 3:46am PDT

There's some good news for all Web developers. The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of Eclipse Development Tools (PDT) 1.0 Project for the Eclipse platform. The Eclipse integrated...

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web site development tool

December 2, 2008 12:30am PST

web site development tool Shall i get such engine which is used for like bravenet site. Need more information We don't know... should you? What specific site development tool are you referring...

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Installing development tools with fink

August 30, 2010 5:00am PDT

Developers should take note of Fink, a collection of open source programs built for OS X. Vincent Danen explains the basics of working with Fink.

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Visual Studio 2008 offers developers more testing options

January 29, 2008 8:18am PST

Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition includes Microsoft's own unit testing offering. Tony Patton offers more details about the recent changes in Visual Studio 2008 and surveys the current...

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Using Mercurial for personal development projects

November 23, 2010 3:49pm PST

Justin James gives the distributed version control system Mercurial a shot for his personal development projects. Read his initial impressions of the DVCS.

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Spotlight: Visual Studio 2010 IDE

May 27, 2010 10:13am PDT

Visual Studio 2010 treats developers and other users to a user interface overhaul laden with new features to improve the development experience.

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Indian and American developers square off

July 21, 2011 3:09pm PDT

In this programming news roundup, read about the ASP.NET MVC 4 roadmap, ReSharper 6, CloudBees Toolkit for Eclipse, a BlackBerry Messenger coding event, and more.

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Dynamic styling of views on Android

April 3, 2012 11:14am PDT

William J. Francis shows a type of dynamic styling in Android that has powerful potential, particularly in apps where you allow users to customize your views on the fly.

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Review of dotTrace 3.1 performance profiling tool

January 25, 2010 10:58pm PST

Developer Justin James says that, if you're looking for an alternative to the Visual Studio profiler, give the dotTrace 3.1 performance tool a look.

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Poll: Are Microsoft's development tools headed in the right direction?

January 20, 2011 9:16am PST

Justin James thinks that much of Microsoft's recent efforts in the way of new development tools, technologies, and languages aren't really what developers need right now. Do you agree?

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Google Chrome Developer Tools: Elements Panel

January 20, 2012 9:20am PST

Ryan Boudreaux offers a detailed look at how you can use the Google Chrome developer tools' Elements Panel to study and experiment with code on websites of your choice.

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Top ticketing apps for developers

January 31, 2012 11:52am PST

Help desk apps just don't cut it for tracking bugs and handling development tasks. Here are a few ticketing systems designed specifically for software developers.

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Development trends to watch in 2010

January 4, 2010 2:48pm PST

Justin James talks about what he thinks will be important development trends in 2010. He covers .NET 4, Visual Studio 2010, cloud computing, and more.

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Developer news: PHP 5.4 RC4, LightSwitch, geolocation in Web apps

January 6, 2012 9:42am PST

Justin James highlights F# 3.0 and Visual Studio 11 enhancements, updates to Rails support, a Dutch PHP event, and more.

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Why do C# developers look down on VB.NET?

February 10, 2009 4:00am PST

Justin James is surprised that most of the anti-VB.NET talk he hears is from C# developers. He argues that it's particularly baffling because the language that most resembles VB.NET from a...

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Five Integrated Development Environment applications

May 10, 2013 11:05am PDT

When it comes to building applications, the right tool for the job can really make all the difference.

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Four cloud tools to use for app development

April 23, 2013 6:47am PDT

Cloud integrations in app development are becoming more prevalent. If you don't know where to start in terms of tools, read these recommendations.

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Handling internal variable state in Android development

October 19, 2011 11:08am PDT

William Francis explains how to master another technique required to successfully manage state in your Android apps: handling internal variables.

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