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James Dayalverified • Sep 25, 2025 • in Articles • 1 min read

Hello World! Welcome to the Dev Tools Group!

Hello World! Welcome to the Dev Tools Group! We’re excited to have you here! This is a space where you can share, learn, and connect with other developers who love Dev Tools. Start by saying hi! Introduce yourself in the comments below—tell us y...

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Stefan Andres • Sep 15 • in Articles • 1 min read

I Built a Set of Free Web Tools While Working on Client Projects — Here They Are

As a designer/developer working across branding, TYPO3 builds, and client campaigns, I kept running into the same small, annoying tasks — checking contrast ratios, generating favicons in five formats, minifying a stylesheet before deploy. So over tim...

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SnappyTools • Jun 6 • in Articles • 2 min read

How to Format SQL for Readability: A Practical Style Guide

SQL doesn't enforce any whitespace rules — the engine treats a one-liner and a 40-line query exactly the same. But your teammates and future self will thank you for the 40-line version. Here's a concise SQL formatting guide that works across MySQL, ...

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SnappyTools • Jun 5 • in Tutorials • 2 min read

SQL Formatting Best Practices: Make Your Queries Readable and Maintainable

SQL is one of the few languages where formatting is genuinely optional — the engine doesn't care about whitespace, indentation, or casing. But your teammates do. And so does future-you. The Core Rules 1. Uppercase keywords Most style guides recomm...

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MasterCraft • Feb 17 • in Tutorials • 1 min read

Implementing and Comparing Searching Algorithms for Dev Tools

Searching for elements within data structures is a common task in software development. In this guide, we will implement and compare two fundamental searching algorithms: linear search and binary search. Let’s dive in. Linear Search Linear search is...

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MasterCraft • Feb 15 • in Articles • 2 min read

Best practices for RESTful API design for Dev Tools

Creating a RESTful API is more than just a set of endpoints. It’s a careful orchestration of principles that ensures your application is robust, scalable, and maintainable. Here are some essential practices to guide your API design. Use Resource-Ori...

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nemesiscodex • Dec 19, 2025 • in Videos • 1 min read

A Better Way to Run Git Worktrees Finally!

I recently found git-gtr, a small CLI by the CodeRabbit team that wraps native Git worktrees and makes them practical for daily use. Install it, create an alias for it alias gw="git gtr" Easier to remember, but up to you!. Navigate to your reposito...

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dcbrown • Dec 5, 2025 • in Articles • 1 min read

Preparing Students for Modern Software Development: Toolchain

In the software engineering classes I teach undergraduate and graduate I'm working to help students gain hands-on exposure to essential tools necessary for real-world software development. While languages, frameworks, and tools constantly change, the...

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BDonaldTechnologistverified • Dec 4, 2025 • in Articles • 5 min read

I Built a VS Code Extension to Simplify .NET Project Creation

How .NET Scaffolder eliminates repetitive CLI commands for .NET developers After years of typing the same dotnet new commands over and over, I finally decided to do something about it. Today, I'm excited to share .NET Scaffolder by NotableBit—a VS C...

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BrazenBraden • Nov 23, 2025 • in Articles • 1 min read

My Editor Journey: From Heavy IDEs to Plain Old Vim

I’ve been through a long parade of editors and IDEs over the years, and each phase almost feels like a snapshot of where I was as a developer at the time. Back at university the big names were NetBeans and Eclipse—heavy, clunky, but they got the job ...

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