QuickREx 2.0.0 [link]

QuickREx is an Eclipse plugin that creates a view in which you can enter in your regular expression and then try several different test strings to check if it’s the one you want. The expressions are checked “against the test-text on the fly, matches are highlighted and you can navigate between the matches. You can also navigate through groups within each match (if groups are defined in your regular expression).”

This is one Eclipse plugin that I don’t think I could live without. I use it constantly, whether build regex for part of an application, or even trying to search for some tricky bit of code in my system.

Well, I’ve finally completed my latest, time-saving program for developers. As usual, it started out as a small program that I used as a quick and dirty way to stop and start system services when writing, testing, and deploying code on different machines. I then realized that it might be useful to others who also are constantly opening up the Services console under Windows.

System Manager runs as a system tray application and provides a simple customizable menu for starting and stopping system services. In addition, I added a Group feature where you can build a list of services that need to be started/stopped. This can be a huge time-saver. I use it quite a bit. I often need to switch between running ColdFusion 5/MSSQL and JBoss/CF7/MySQL on my machine, and in the original version, I got tired of having to click the menu 5 whole times (god developers are lazy)! So now I just create a two Groups – one that starts CF5 services and one that starts CF7 services – and with two clicks, I’m off an running.

Visit System Manager Home Page for screenshots, installation video and download.