They’re the bits and pieces of the daily grind that your coders can’t live without. They’re the services and software that help to appease your legal department or allow you to run new Ruby code on old Java application servers. They’re the tools—and the old saying that a craftsman is only as good as his or her tools applies all the more in this case. With tools like the eponymous Valgrind, even the sloppiest developer can churn out functional and usable code, free of memory leaks and XML errors.

  • Black Duck
  • Instantiations
  • JRuby
  • Krugle.net
  • LogiXML
  • Rally
  • Valgrind
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