Favorite tips or tricks for developing/testing on the Cobalt platform

Do you have any tips or tricks for ways to speed up things you do repeatedly when working with the Cobalt platform? I'm thinking special bookmarks, browser plugins, scriptlets, anything that makes you just a little bit faster.

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Rolandas Burbulis

If you are working in java space (say using Eclipse) and are making any kind of ReST call and want to see them in Fiddler, you need to pass the following arguments to the JVM so that Fiddler is able to intercept them. This makes it easy if you are running a test and want to see exectly what ReST calls are being made instead of just looking at your code:

-Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=8888 -Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=8888

Another basic suggestion is install WebEx Productivity Tools. It makes scheduling meetings a breeze with integration into Outlook. When you're setting up a meeting in Outlook, all you'd do is click one button on the meeting notice and it will add all the WebEx info into the notice for you. Painless.

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mark.maruska

I've had good success with Microsoft's [Productivity Power Tools](http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef/) plugin for Visual Studio. I especially like the search highlighting that also highlights hits along the scrollbar; plus I like pinning tabs of files or windows that I use often, like Solution Explorer or TFS results for my tasks, etc. There are more features, but those are the big ones for me.

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Ryan Morlok

My personal favorite is to use scriptlets (JavaScript browser bookmarks) to automate signing on with OnePass.

For example, if you replaces ONEPASS_USERNAME and ONEPASS_PASSWORD with your OnePass username/password and add this as a bookmark in your browser, you can use it to sign on when you are on the OnePass screen.

javascript:(function(){document.getElementById("coid_website_userNameTextbox").value="ONEPASS_USERNAME";document.getElementById("coid_website_passwordTextbox").value="ONEPASS_PASSWORD";platform_SignOnButtonClick();return%20undefined;})();

Obviously, you wouldn't want to do this with your production OnePass credentials.

Andrew Gerber

If working in the Java world, check out [Spring Tools Suite][1]. It has some really nifty bean validation which is really useful in keeping your Spring XML files in sync with your application code. Also, I've heard about Spring IDE, and it seems it provides similar features to STS, but I haven't ever used it. You can get both directly from the Eclipse Marketplace (Help -> Eclipse Marketplace, search for "Spring" or something similar).

[1]: http://www.springsource.com/developer/sts

Ryan Morlok

Another favorite of mine is to set routing page parameters via the query string. Generally you can set most of the routing URLs via query string parameters of the same name. For example, if I wanted to route search locally, I could the following:

http://coablt.env.url/Routing?Search=[my.ip.address].ip.int.ci.lab.westlaw.com

Additionally, you can use

SaveAndShowSignOnPage=true

query string parameter to apply the routing page changes you've specified, but then take you directly to the signon page.

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