Worried about Regular Expressions? Do you have to read manuals, every time you want to write a Regular Expression?

Fortunately, there are some helpful tools! One is http://gskinner.com/RegExr/, an online Regular Expression Testing Tool. Try it out, it is very helpful to create Regular Expressions and saves time on testing an expression.

 

 

 

Programmer’s Notepad is able to add user specific tools. For example, I added the command line tool XMLStartlet. With XMLStartlet, I can validate or format XML files:

In this example, I want to take the output of XMLStartlet and insert it to my currently opened file:

This is just one tiny example, how Programmer’s Notepad can be extended. There are plenty of other tools, which are useful in Programmer’s Notepad. Every developer can decide for himself, which one he wants to use!

 

 

 

In a previous post I mentioned the Putty Connection Manager. This tool is a wrapper, which creates a tab for each Putty instance. Today, I encountered a nice feature. With this Connection Manager it is possible, to rename the tabs. Very useful if you are debugging on several servers or on different ssh instances on a machine.

To rename a tab, just press CTRL + R or right click on the tab:

 

 

 

This is my first blog, in which I’m using Windows Live Writer. This tool, a usual windows application, let’s me to write a blog entry on a rich client.

With the spelling corrector and the easy way to embed images simplifies the way to write a blog entry. It’s even possible to paste a screenshot directly to the blog.

Let’s have a look http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

It supports Wordpress and downloads all available categories. Nice feature!

 

 

 

Putty is a simple SSH client with a simple interface. Sometimes, too simple. I use Putty a lot and have often some concurrent connections. And I really missed a tabbed interface.

Thanks for people, who have the same problems and have the time to solve the problem. Just have a look at the PuTTY Connection Manager. This tiny tool just wrapps around Putty and adds a tabbed interface.

via How-To Geek

 

 

 

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