What's in your web-developer toolbox, please share.
+1
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Firefox, and its extensions: Firebug, Live HTTP Headers, HTML validator, YSlow
also JSLint
John Millikin
2008-10-09 19:58:09
+2
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Firefox (extensions: Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar) IE 7, IE 6, Safari
craigmoliver
2008-10-09 19:59:09
+1. also Opera and Chrome
mrinject
2008-10-09 20:01:24
+10
A:
Test your web design in different browsers - http://browsershots.org
(without actually installing them)
sepang
2008-10-09 19:59:47
+1
A:
FireFox (Web Developer Toolbar, FireBug, YSlow, and FasterFox).
Fiddler
W3C Validators (HTML and CSS)
Web CEO
These are just outside tools, not counting programming.
Mitchel Sellers
2008-10-09 20:00:02
A:
Adding to the already mentioned Firefox Plugins: WebDeveloper and TamperData. Also NoScript, CookieSafe
Olaf
2008-10-09 20:00:50
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WebDeveloper toolbar and HackBar for Firefox.
Also, ie4linux is great to test different versions of IE.
Milan Babuškov
2008-10-09 20:01:59
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Not a complete list, but...
Fiddler for client side testing
FeedValidator.org for checking RSS, KML, Atom stuff for correctness
Picasa for resizing photos in batches.
Dreamweaver & Fireworks for content development.
Visual Studio 2008 for back end development.
Tim Farley
2008-10-09 20:04:16
+13
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- Your IDE of choice [VS 2008 here]
- Your debugger [It is usually part of your IDE, but sometimes WinDbg is needed]
- It's plugins for refactoring and source control [Resharper 4+ and Ankh SVN 2+]
- Your OS's addons for source control [Tortoise SVN]
- A better Diff and Merge Tool to plug into the above SCM tools [WinMerge]
- A fast loading text editor for when your IDE is too much [vim, Notepad++]
- Specific to web development, get tools for that [Firefox 3 with Add-ons: Web Developer, Firebug, TamperData, Poster, Firecookie, FireFTP, FirePHP, Rainbow for Firebug, ReloadEvery, Selenium IDE]
- Requisite tools for working with text [GNU TextUtils, via cygwin or gnuwin32.sf.net]
- Scripting tools [Perl, Python, zsh, all those GNU base packages in cygwin]
- A Regular Expression testing tool for when your eyes hurt [Expresso, RegexBuddy]
For Java I swap out 1 and 3 with Eclipse, and it's plugins for Maven and SVN, I haven't found a refactoring plug in... you'd think I'd use IntelliJ IDEA but I never started using it. Read other peoples too.
dlamblin
2008-10-09 20:10:17
A:
- BBEdit
- Terminal with bash
- ant
- tomcat
- Oracle 10g RDBMS
- Oracle 10g XDK (XML Development Kit)
- Firefox with Firebug
- OmniGraffle
- GraphicConverter
- Oxygen
- JDeveloper (but for database browsing only)
- Oracle instantclient10_1 (for sqlplus)
- jmeter
- findbugs
- tox
dacracot
2008-10-09 20:45:04
+4
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I recently added Watir (Web Application Testing In Ruby) to my toolbox. Basically it lets you script events in IE (Firefox and Safari versions also available) using a Ruby script. I've been using it to run through all the basic functionality of a project, take screenshots and dump them to a Word file, and spit out a log of what it did and anything bad that happened. Pretty useful as a sanity check.
Example code:
ie = Watir::IE.new
ie.goto "http://www.google.com/"
ie.link(:text, "Images").click
ie.text.include? "The most comprehensive image search on the web"
ie.text_field(:name, "q").set("penguin")
ie.button(:name, "btnG").click
detour
2008-10-09 21:34:28
+1
A:
Firefox, Firebug, MozREPL and a heavily customized Emacs that lets me automagickally launch Selenium Tests or set Firebug breakpoints. (amongst other things).
Jonathan Arkell
2008-10-10 06:41:05
A:
I have found a few useful extensions for Firefox which I don't think are listed here
these are..
- Dummy Lipsum (instantly grab as many paragraphs of Lorum Ipsum as you like)
- View This Page In Safari (does just what it says)
- IE Tab (Windows only, allows you to open links etc in an IE window within Firefox)
- Colorzilla (allows you to eyedrop any colour on the browser window)
- Fangs (allows you to see on screen what a screen reader would speak. I think it's based off JAWS, hence the name)
alex
2008-10-28 00:57:46
+3
A:
- Firebug (top of the list)
- Colorzilla
- Web Developer toolbar
- Roboform - password filler, good when working a lot on forms
- Selenium RC/Selenium - IDE for recording tests
- FoxyProxy - for swapping between proxies
- WireShark - for packet debugging
- Photoshop elements - for laying out page designs
- MultipleIEs - gives you all versions of IE in one installation
- RegexBuddy - For massaging text/xml/data
- JMeter - for performance testing - really good once you get used to it.