My team at work uses a fantastic Visual Studio add-in called Source Analysis to ensure consistency in our C# code formatting, commenting and organisation.
Source Analysis has now been released for the whole world to use, for free! The free download is available at the MSDN Code Gallery:
Source Analysis at Code Gallery
There’s also a blog [...]
Another update to Damien’s great coding font Envy Code R, now at preview 7. This time we get a bunch of hinting improvements (Damien paid big bucks for the software to do this, consider donating!) and improvements when the font is used with larger sizes. Envy Code R also contains all the box drawing characters [...]
It’s time for a second 0.9 unstable release, bringing a number of bug fixes and new features:
Automatic Update Check - at launch Programmer’s Notepad checks in the background whether there is an update available and shows you a message if there is one.
Vista open and save dialogs are now used throughout when you’re running Vista, [...]
The Programmer’s Notepad Online Help was previously run using MoinMoin, a wiki engine developed using Python and one that I was fond of many years ago. As with everything else on the internet, the help website had begun to develop a lot of spam over the last couple of months, and it would seem that [...]
Who would want to hack my website?!
It would appear that hacking doesn’t always take the “This site 0WneD by L33t Hax0rs” form, and that Wordpress sites in particular are being targetted by Spam Injection hacks.
A few weeks ago I noticed that the ads on the front page of pnotepad.org were a little odd, lots of [...]
Occasionally I get a feature request for Programmer’s Notepad asking for clipboard ring support. Personally I’ve never been a big fan of clipboard rings, although it may be implementations like that in Office that puts me off. Jeff Atwood is a big fan of them, however, and pointed to ClipX as an implementation that works [...]
I needed to do a little browsing of the PN subversion repository this evening, and wanted to do so from a GUI without installing my normal favourite TortoiseSVN. I found SvnExplorer after a bit of searching and it did the job just fine. I’d have preferred not to have to use an installer, but it [...]
Google has a great Chart API that allows you to request a chart using just a normal URL query string, e.g.
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=200×125&chd=s:helloWorld
gets you:
The API is remarkably powerful given the minimalistic interface. Here are two internet-favourite charts:
the best pie chart ever, and we can also do Venn diagrams:
See the Developer’s Guide for the full details.
Updated releases of various "Windows Live" software packages include Beta 3 of Windows Live Writer. This is good. Unfortunately the install experience for WLW gets worse with each release. This latest update includes a Browser Helper Object (to help me sign into Windows Live - I don’t have an account) that requires me to allow [...]
…is another code formatting tool, a bit like AStyle but it supports a whole bunch more languages including PHP and Assembly! I haven’t tried it myself, but came across it while searching for Programmer’s Notepad on tafiti. They have a nice page showing how to use SourceFormatX as a Programmer’s Notepad tool.
Link: SourceFormatX