I am part of a team that keeps doing nightly builds for our product. During these builds, often there will be a situation to compare the tables and respective entries when there is a new bug.

I was searching for a free tool that does this analysis and present the results in a nice format. Thankfully, Microsoft has provided a tool called Tablediff along with sqlserver 2005.


But the downside is this is a command line utility which is good enough for continuos integration processs but not for off the shelf comparison. There is a UI version of this tool, courtesy of this site

Try using these tools.

In general, we often see apps take more than 5 MB in size. But Nirsoft utils take very less space (less than 1 MB) and are pretty useful too.

You can find list of more utilities here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/index.html

I love to use small utilities that take care of the routine tasks. The thing is many such tool need to installed to start working. But here is a nice collection of tools that can be ported using the USB or just copy/pasted to work.

http://www.portablefreeware.com/?p=11

There has been quite a buzz on Google wave. So what exactly is it. is it a new platform, langauage or framework? Here is an introductory article that gives answers to beginner questions on Google wave.

URL: http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

Quite often we are required to handle new requirements in our projects. These could range from minor tweaks in the existing functionality or introducing a new behaviour. In these situations how well can these requirements be gauged. Here is a useful checklist that helps in analysing a requriement and cross checking major checkpoints.

And just to remember it in a short way:

Good Requirements are SORTA NUTS

URL: http://svprojectmanagement.com/good-requirements-are-sorta-nuts

Ever notice how people working @ night have that eerie blue glow?

Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?

During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.

So how do you adjust the brightness automatically. Here is an innovative tool that uses your geographic location to adjust the day time settings and then use your computer time to adjust the monitor brightness.

http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

Pretty crisp list of 10 rarely used html tag

http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/10-rare-html-tags-you-really-should-know/

So you want to follow on Twitter but not able to search the basics?
Here is an exhaustive article that takes from a dummies to Pro level on twitter
read and follow
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/the-ultimate-guide-for-everything-twitter/

to sum it up: brilliant ad that conveys the point quite easily

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-URtZfIgKAU

Here is a brilliant and simple article on stacks and heaps. written in a lucid language this is sure to make you understand the concepts easy.