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Coding Snacks / IDEA: Explorer context menu entry to convert paths between Windows and Mac
« on: January 17, 2012, 01:56 PM »
This should be really easy for anyone that knows about adding a small app to Windows explorer.

I use a Mac with Windows 7 (x64) in a VM for my work, and other people here use a mix of Macs and PCs. As such, network paths get sent by email, and sometimes they're Mac and sometimes they're Windows.

I would really like to be able to right-click and copy a path, and have it automatically convert them. All this really means is replacing forward-slashes with back-slashes, and vice versa.

So if I have \\share\directory, I'd like to be able to right-click and copy as //share/directory, and vice versa.

Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Looking for a couple of specific tools for QA testing HTML code reqs
« on: September 16, 2010, 09:18 PM »
Hi everyone!

I am currently working for an ad-agency doing web QA. One of the things that I have to do is to make sure that the HTML code meets specific requirements. I have a pretty good routine for most of it, but there are a couple of things that I would really like to be able to use some sort of tool to automate the process, and I am hoping that someone here might know of some tools :)

1. Finding empty tags - You would think that there would be tools all over the place for this, but I've had a hard time finding any except as part of larger commercial testing suites that I couldn't use; i.e., it wouldn't be worth buying an expensive suite of software for the single function.

Dreamweaver has an option to remove empty tags and I tried using that, saving a copy of the edited version, and using a diff tool to find what it did (my job is to report issues, not fix them), but it's far from perfect and the process was a little cumbersome.

I also use a code validator that utilizes the W3C validator and HTML Tidy, but it doesn't seem to work reliably for finding empty tags.

2. Finding ASCII characters in visible text - Note that it's not just extended ASCII, but anything that's not a letter, number, period ("full stop" for you non-Americans), or comma. Obviously I wouldn't want it to point out everything in the HTML code; just the text that's visible on the rendered page.

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Unfinished Requests / IDEA: Send mailto: links to another computer on network
« on: January 23, 2010, 03:52 AM »
This is something I've been really wanting for a while now. Unfortunately I don't know how complex this would be, but I'm hoping it will be simple enough for a coding snack :) I wouldn't be opposed to using AutoHotKey if it would be easier.

What I would really like is a small app that would let me click a mailto: link on one computer, and have it open a new email to that recipient on another system.

I use Stardock's Multiplicity; if you know about Synergy, then it's basically the same thing (a software KVM type solution). I keep all of my volatile data like email on a different machine than what I use for most of my browsing.

The system running the web browser would be XP SP3, and the email system would be Windows 7 x64.

Please?  :D

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Testing tool that fills up memory
« on: October 02, 2008, 12:55 PM »
Another tool that would be good for beta/QA testing would be a small tool that just fills up your system's RAM, so I/we could test applications under low memory conditions. This would be like those sketchy tools that "free up" system memory by filling up memory with something big (but probably essentially empty) and then unloading it, but in this case it would just keep it there until you tell it to unload. It would be nice to be able to select how much RAM it should try to take by both percentage and MB. I'm thinking it might also be nice if it could fill up memory with a lot of smaller (empty?) files instead of one big one so that it would (theoretically) fill up the page file as well.

Hopefully this isn't too big of a request.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Click counter
« on: October 02, 2008, 12:16 PM »
This is something that I could really use for some testing that I'm doing right now. What I want/need should be pretty simple (emphasis on "should"). I just want a small app that will run in Vista and keep a count of the number of times the mouse is clicked within a specified program. It should have easily accessible Start, Stop, and Reset buttons. It would be nice if it would show how long it's been tracking clicks and stay on top as well.

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