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plantumleditor – fast, simple UML diagram editor 

http://code.google.com/p/plantumleditor/

A convenient IDE to create UML diagrams using plantuml. Open multiple diagrams, quickly edit and see output without ever leaving the editor. No need to design using mouse. Just type and diagrams get generated on-the-fly.

SysAid Free Help Desk Software

http://www.ilient.com/freeware.htm

A new version of SysAid Free Help Desk Software is now available. This version is completely free, with no trial period, and no ads.
SysAid Help Desk Software offers efficient, web based help desk.

With SysAid free help desk software, you'll be able to:

    Let end users submit service requests via simple, online forms.
    Sort, search through, and deal with service requests using an efficient methodology.
    Print reports on the state of your help desk.
    Communicate with your end-users in real-time via SysAid's completely integrated Live Chat module.
    Receive automatic notifications and keep your end-users up-to-date via email and SMS text messages.
    Utilize various features such as escalation, automatic notifications, a knowledgebase, and more.
    Manage and monitor your organization's inventory.
    Choose between interfaces in English, French, German,

SpecFlow-Convert plain-text into .net unit tests

http://specflow.org/specflow/workflow.aspx

There are two driving intentions behind SpecFlow:
    * visual studio .net addin – create unit test
    * We believe in the simplicity of plain-text feature specifications
    * We want to provide a seamless developer experience by leveraging existing infrastructure and frictionless integration into the .Net platform

From these intentions we derived the following design decisions:

    * We strive to be fully compatible with the Gherkin language
    * We allow bindings (step definitions) in any .NET language
    * We use existing unit-testing frameworks as the runtime for scenario execution

Realization:

SpecFlow converts the feature files into unit test fixture classes. The test inside the test fixture classes are corresponding to the scenarios you have in the feature file, and contain call-outs to the step definitions
SpecFlow currently consists of three parts:

    * feature file converter into test fixtures (integrated into Visual Studio through a single-file generator)
    * runtime framework (handles, step bindings, events and tracing)
    * NUnit integration

Plans for the near future:

    * Provide a converter that can be run outside of Visual Studio
    * Integration with MSTest
    * Extensibility for grammars in other human languages (e.g. German)

Wonderwebware-Screen Ruler

http://wonderwebware.com/screen-ruler/

Measure anything on your screen with this freeScreen Ruler tool…

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool

http://www.codeplex.com/PAL

Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (provided). The tool generates an HTML based report which graphically charts important performance counters and throws alerts when thresholds are exceeded. The thresholds are originally based on thresholds defined by the Microsoft product teams and members of Microsoft support, but continue to be expanded by this ongoing project. This tool is not a replacement of traditional performance analysis, but it automates the analysis of performance counter logs enough to save you time. This is a VBScript and requires Microsoft LogParser (free download). 

on-screen ruler- semitransparent onscreen ruler

https://sites.google.com/site/rulerhelp/welcome

on-screen ruler- semitransparent onscreen ruler. This program is a semitransparent on-screen ruler with keyboard shortcuts to help you lay out GUIs, Web pages or measure anything in 5 units. The ruler saves its settings upon exit and is safe for work, since it does not modify the registry.

DebugDiag – Debug Diagnostic Tool

http://www.microsoft.com

Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process. The tool includes additional debugging scripts focused on Internet Information Services (IIS) applications, web data access components, COM+ and related Microsoft technologies.

Application Software Ideas Modeler

http://www.softwareideas.net/

Application Software Ideas Modeler is a lightweight and powerful tool for the creation of UML (UML is the industry standard general purpose modeling language for software engineering) diagrams and modeling software.

abylon SELFCERT-create self-signed test certificates X.509 v3

http://www.abylonsoft.com/selfcert/index.htm

This Tool create self-signed test certificates (X.509 v3) for private use. It is very easy to create and you can encrypt your data with this certificate.
Features:
    * Generation of self-signed X.509 v3 test certificates
    * Automatic installation after the certificate generation
    * Fields: Owner, Emailadress, Country, City, Organisation and Department
    * Key size 512 until 4024 Bits
    * Runtime up to 9999 days (~ 27 years)

Sitemap Generator to generate html or txt sitemap

http://www.sitemap-generator.net/

Sitemap Generator to generate html or txt sitemap. HTML Sitemap can be a valuable page to your website for search engines, vistors, and web masters. Download Sitemap Generator Software Utility and try the software utility for your own website or have a look at the html sitemap generated by the software utility, using the link at the bottom of this page.

soapUI-Test Web Services

http://www.soapui.org/features.html

 soapUI is a free and open source desktop application for

    * inspecting Web Services
    * invoking Web Services
    * developing Web Services
    * Web Services Simulation and Mocking
    * Functional, Load and Compliance testing of Web Services

It is mainly aimed at developers and testers providing or consuming WSDL or REST based Web Services (Java, .net, etc). Functional and Load Testing can be done both interactively in soapUI or within an automated build or integration process using the soapUI command line tools.

Mock Web Services can easily be created for any WSDL and hosted from within soapUI or using the command-line MockService runner. IDE-plugins are available for

    * eclipse plug in
    * IntelliJ IDEA plug in
    * NetBeans plug in

soapUI requires Java 1.5 and is licensed under the LGPL license. 

 Highlight converts source code to formatted text with syntax highlighting

http://www.andre-simon.de/index.html

    * Coloured output in HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, LaTeX, SVG, BBCode and XML format
    * Supports 140+ programming languages
    * Includes 40 colour themes
    * Platform independent

Log Parser-use sql like syntax to parse iis csv xml files

http://www.microsoft.com

Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows® operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory.

Git is distributed version control system

http://git-scm.com/

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system  designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do. Git is used for version control of files, much like tools such as Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and Visual SourceSafe.

Aptana Studio-web development environment eclipse plugin

http://www.aptana.com/

Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more.

Window Size- developer tool to set predefined window sizes

http://www.markuswelz.de/freeware/index.html#card4anchor

You want to test how your program or web site looks on a screen with lower resolution than your's?
You can change your screen's resolution of course. But it is probably more convenient just to resize your program's or browser's window to the desired width and height. All you have to do is to select the desired size and then click on the big button. The next window that becomes the forground window (by clicking on that window or it's taskbar button) will be resized.

New in version 2.2: A function to restore the original size of each window which has been resized with WindowSize. This will, however, not work if WindowSize has meanwhile been stopped and restarted.
New in version 2.1:
1. Add a border in order to get the correct client area size for a maximized window.
2. Subtract the size of the taskbar. 

ArgoUML- open source UML modeling tool

http://argouml.tigris.org/

ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages. See the feature list for more details.

MouseZoom-developer tool to zoom and display pixel color values

http://www.neuber.com/free/mousezoom/index.html

MouseZoom is a nice but small utility. It zooms the current mouse position (50x) and shows the color value (RGB, HEX, HLS, CMYK) and the absolute and relative position of the point where the mouse is. MouseZoom is magnifier, color dropper and distance analyser.

HxD – Freeware Hex Editor and Disk Editor

http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

xD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.

The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more.

Editing works like in a text editor with a focus on a simple and task-oriented operation, as such functions were streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical.
For example, drives and memory are presented similar to a file and are shown as a whole, in contrast to a sector/region-limited view that cuts off data which potentially belongs together. Drives and memory can be edited the same way as a regular file including support for undo. In addition memory-sections define a foldable region and inaccessible sections are hidden by default.

Furthermore a lot of effort was put into making operations fast and efficient, instead of forcing you to use specialized functions for technical reasons or arbitrarily limiting file sizes. This includes a responsive interface and progress indicators for lengthy operations.

Microsoft Small Basic

http://www.microsoft.com/

Microsoft Small Basic is a project that is aimed at making computer programming accessible to beginners. The project comprises a simple programming language that gathers inspiration from the original BASIC programming language; a modern and attractive programming environment; and rich, extensible libraries. Together they make programming fun for kids and adults alike.

Word Generator-generating names for stories and programs

http://www.poromenos.org/downloads

This application is useful for generating names for stories, programs, etc. It has many options and produces some nice words. There is also names file support, and WordGen files, a special rules format.

Highlighter – text log file analyzer and highlighter

http://www.mandiant.com/software/highlighter.htm

Highlighter is a free utility designed primarily for security analysts and system administrators. Highlighter provides a user with three views of the log or text file being analyzed:

    * a text view that allows users to highlight interesting keywords and remove lines with “known good” content
    * a graphical, full-content view that shows all content and the full structure of the file, rendered as an image that is dynamically editable through the user interface
    * a histogram view that displays patterns in the file over time. Usage patterns become visually apparent and provide the examiner with useful 

InstEd – MSI Editor alternative to Microsoft's Orca

http://www.instedit.com/home

InstEd makes working with files fast and easy.  If you use Orca, you will love InstEd. If you use some of the more expensive tools, you may find that InstEd makes you more productive for the bread and butter packaging tasks.

    * Build cabs from the Media table.  Right click a Media table entry to see the files belonging to that cab, or to rebuild the cab.
    * Multi-file editing using tabs. Built from the ground up to handle multiple files, everything from searching to validation can be applied to more than one file at a time.
    * Easy navigation. All relationships within the database are displayed and clickable for easy navigation.
    * Accurate editing. Changes to a field are optionally cascaded to all dependent fields. So, for example, renaming a component can have all references updated.
    * Change highlighting. All changes to an mst are highlighted. Msi files can be compared to highlight the differences. And by comparing an msi to itself while the msi is being edited, change tracking can be performed on an msi.
    * Easy validation. Validation profiles allow full flexibility to apply ICEs from more than one CUB to many files at once, allowing for easy Quality Assurance of many files at once.

SVN-Monitor-Subversion Monitor

http://www.svnmonitor.com/default.shtml

   * Perform all your commonly-used svn-actions (update, commit, revert, diff …)    * Keep your source up-to-date with minimum conflicts and manual merges
    * Browse and search the svn log from your computer while offline (disconnected from the svn repository)
    * Be constantly aware of your local source modifications, without using any Visual Studio plugin
    * Keep a local updated mirror of the repository, while not affecting your changes, without the need to commit
    * Monitor the source for certain events
    * Receive notifications of any kind (balloon popups, tray icons, email, sounds, …) when certain events occur

But I'm using TortoiseSVN!

Very good. You'll continue using it.

SVN-Monitor acts as a front-end to TortoiseSVN for all your projects. Instead of using Windows Explorer for accessing TortoiseSVN, you can easily access it from your system-tray.
What is a monitor?

A monitor is a rule, very similar to an Outlook rule:

A definition of WHEN and WHAT to do.

For example: when my project has been updated (someone committed something), pop-up a tray-balloon notification.

Another example: when James has added files to the "Resources\Images" folder in the "www" project, download these files to a local folder in my desktop.

DeltaProd is a project management tool

http://www.deltaprod.free.fr/html.en/accueil.html

In fact, if you look at all of the project management tools, you realise that they do not all cover the same features.
So, without going into the definition of project management, you must ask yourself what you need to follow up your project, or more precisely what a project management tool should allow you to follow.
The answer to this question depends of course on the nature of the project.
We will concentrate here on the issue of IT projects, which is the main purpose of DeltaProd, but rules described may be applied to most of project management cases.