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Beyond Compare. I find this tool very very useful when you have lots of integration job. If you have an enterprise version, then you can do stuff like compare and merge files across two servers, compare PDFs, ZIPs, JAR, and obviously plain text files. This is a tool for which I definitely ask for an Enterprise Version license whenever I join a new organization.
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what is an on the fly API documentation generator? Is it that you say what your lang and stack is and they tailor the documentation to just the lang and stack you're using?
Airtable generates basic REST APIs for CRUD operations based on your database schema. Perhaps that's what OP is referring to.
JIRA. It's powerful, customizable, flexible and drives workflows and productivity across millions of companies around the world. It's the SAP of issue tracking. Despite all the baggage, they still try continuously to improve the UX of the software so it stays relevant and relatively usable. There's definitely problems with it (its performance can be awful and require dedicated server clusters to keep it up at larger…
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I definitely am on the opposite side when it comes to Tableau. After you get over the initial learning curve you start to realize that everything in Tableau when working with calculated fields is a workaround. If your data doesn't already look amazing going into Tableau you're in for a bad time.
Was a big fan of tableau and we use it in production. It's a wonderfully exploratory tool. But the real pain start when you have 50+ workbooks and the underlying data model MUST introduce breaking change for whatever reason. There is to my knowledge no way to automate edition of workbooks. You are in for GUI repetitive soul sucking task. Bonus pain if "workaround" are involved. (Just have a look at the support forum.…
JIRA. It's powerful, customizable, flexible and drives workflows and productivity across millions of companies around the world. It's the SAP of issue tracking. Despite all the baggage, they still try continuously to improve the UX of the software so it stays relevant and relatively usable. There's definitely problems with it (its performance can be awful and require dedicated server clusters to keep it up at larger…
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Wow.. I hate it... the quality of IntelliJ has really fallen. I've been using it for like 5 years now and I'm constantly fighting it There are literally 20-40 serious bugs that impact me daily.
Do you have some examples? I've used IntelliJ or variants of it (Clion primarily in more recent years) since ~2004 and rarely had any issues, but it's possible I'm missing some obvious things here.
Trace32 & the Lauterbach JTAG. Expensive, but intuitive, scriptable, and performant.
Do you have much experience with gdb+openocd+ ? Aside from a couple chip vendor's IDEs (Analog Devices and Atmel, both at a previous employer), I've always used the open source stack for embedded debugging and found it adequate. Just wondering what I'm missing out on? While there are certainly some rough edges in the OSS stack, they've been no worse than the commercial solutions I've tried. And at least in principle,…
Maybe the only thing to hate about Trace32 is its very clumsy UI. I'd rather use a TUI than their Motif/Qt based one.
JIRA. It's powerful, customizable, flexible and drives workflows and productivity across millions of companies around the world. It's the SAP of issue tracking. Despite all the baggage, they still try continuously to improve the UX of the software so it stays relevant and relatively usable. There's definitely problems with it (its performance can be awful and require dedicated server clusters to keep it up at larger…
It's crazy how different opinions are on JIRA. I think it's the worst tool I'm forced to use - and have been - at all my dev jobs. It's slow, sluggish, the UX is horrible and it gets in my way. A lot of dev teams that are outside of product/project management claws simply opt for using whatever simple kanban board there might be(Trello, for example).
Trace32 & the Lauterbach JTAG. Expensive, but intuitive, scriptable, and performant.
Funny but I had the exact opposite experience with it back when I worked in the space like 10 years ago. The software was clunky and borderline unusable, every bit of the system was proprietary (I remember we had to pay $10K a pop for connector cables, which each came with their own limited license), support was clueless, and there was no ecosystem to speak of (again due to their tight controls).
I have to disagree with you on their support. But things may have changed since 10 years ago.