Three Key Tools

"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

-- LarryWall

If you are a Developer ( to quote a phrase overused recently by Head Hunters - " Hand On Developer " ), & if you are using Windows for all your development activities, you'd better have these three tools in your kit.

• WinDirStat
• Unlocker
• tail for windows

What do these Tools do ? Well, they solve some of the most nagging & frustrating problems that you always run into.

Please take a look at Sundar's Blog for more about these goodies. And, keep an eye on his Blog for more of these goodies.

Recursive Java Decompiler by Adarsh

" Often we encounter situations where the only solution to a certain Java problem is to decompile the contents of an entire JAR file, edit the resulting the source, rebuild and repackage before using. "

- Adarsh Ramamurthy

I found myself in this situation today & was struggling with CAVAJ and JAD to recursively generate Java classes present in an EAR file. I initially tried my hand at writing my own DOS Script to do this, but soon found that it takes a lot of time, patience & effort to write a script that does what I need. And time, unfortuantely, is in very limited supply today !

I Googled around looking for solutions & landed on this post by Adarsh. The Recursive Decompiler provided by Adarsh works like a charm *& saved a lot of time !

Thanks a lot Adarsh !