[thelist] Tip: Useful Windows Tools

[John.Brooking at sappi.com]

Hey, everyone,

   I'm a bit frustrated that I haven't gotten any responses to my "Login
Screen Security" query which I posted on Monday [1]. I think I followed
rules of good posting (clear explanation, informative subject, no whining,
etc). But rather than bitch and moan, I'll try submitting a tip to improve
my give/take ratio and see if that improves the disposition of the list in
general towards me. (Sorry it's not technical - unfortunately, I haven't
been able to do a lot of web development recently at my job, so I can't
think of anything technical that most of you wouldn't already know.)

[1] http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20031110/151270.html
<http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20031110/151270.html> 

<tip type="Useful Windows Tools" author="John Brooking">

This is a short synopsis of two reasonably-priced (< $50) Windows-specific
tools which I use every day. I should state that I have no affiliation to
either of these vendors except as a standard customer, no personal
connection to any of their employees, and that I am submitting this tip
completely of my own initiative, purely as a service to the readers of this
list.

Text Editor: Ultra-Edit (http://www.ultraedit.com/
<http://www.ultraedit.com/> ). Features include opening and saving via FTP,
column mode editing, customizable syntax highlighting (the site includes
configuration files for pretty much any language you could use), DOS command
run and output capture, and keystroke macros.

Version Control: QVCS (http://www.qumasoft.com/ <http://www.qumasoft.com/> )
is a file-based version control tool which does not require database
support. It supports standard vc functionality
-- check check-in, check-out, get, history, keyword expansion -- and
supports the Microsoft SCC API for integration into most third-party IDE's.
It does not have its own text file comparison utility, but can be configured
to use any one, and recommends ExamDiff (http://www.prestosoft.com/
<http://www.prestosoft.com/> ), which I have found to be excellent, even the
free version. (Prestosoft also makes their own FTP-based version control
utility, FtpVC, which is an attractive idea to me, but I haven't tried it
yet.)

</tip>

- John
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