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SubMain Software
Company blog · submain.com/blogprogrammingweb
SubMain Software is the company blog at submain.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments link SubMain's product pages for Visual Studio add-ins, StudioTools and GhostDoc, not blog posts. None of the comments discuss the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Code Quality Tools, Automated Code Review and Refactoring
Most-linked posts?
- /products/ghostdoc.aspx2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-19
What Hacker News says?
For those of you using Visual Studio, there is an addon called StudioTools that adds this functionality: http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx Highly recommended, they both have a smart open file that lets you start typing a filename, and smart goto, which lets you start typing a class or method name. Makes navigation so much faster!
Comment linking /products/studiotools.aspx
on “New IDE: code bubbles”Submitted Spring Cleaning Your Code Review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTo be honest it's not a problem I have, I like to keep my comments short and punchy. If I'm writing war and peace, it will only ever be for the class comment at the top, for some reason I manually do my own line breaks then as I feel it can be used to break up thought and provide emphasis. However, I'm also a GhostDoc fan: http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx So I appreciate some people consider me to be inhere…
Comment linking /products/ghostdoc.aspx
on “Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows”Submitted The Developer Feedback Loop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso, if you're using Visual Studio, you can either get Resharper or the free plugin StudioTools: http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx Both add better file/class/method navigation, and I find them invaluable.
Comment linking /products/studiotools.aspx
on “Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?”If you like Eclipse and miss some of its features in Visual Studio I can really recommend Studio Tools: http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx I used to run Resharper when I used Visual Studio 2005, but with 2008 there's much less need for it.
Comment linking /products/studiotools.aspx
on “Ask HN: What code editor do you use?”I use a smaller plugin for that called StudioTools: http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx And I agree, those features make you so much more productive!
Comment linking /products/studiotools.aspx
on “Visual Studio Add-Ins (Poll Result)”I think this implies that .NET people love them. http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx Write a function like "getFoo" and it generates that as the description. Similar situation example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPaNRaub8N4#at=40
Comment linking /products/ghostdoc.aspx
on “My Case Against Code Comments”