Dev Utilities
Some invaluable tools for building websites!
- IETester
A windows app which allows you to test your site in rendering engine’s of ie5.5, ie6, ie7 and ie8 without the hassle of trying to install them all side by side (using the evolt archives) or the time limited virtual pc images available from Microsoft
- JRuler
An on-screen ruler allowing you to measure stuff in pixels- awesome tool when slicing up new sites. - FileZilla
A great free FTP Client
- FireBug
An awesome app allowing you to debug javascript with breakpoints, check your ajax calls with the network traffic monitor and check properties and make real time changes in CSS using the Inspector - Web Developer Toolbar
A great toolbar to allow you to resize to different resolutions, disable various components (such as javascript, images, css) and validate your html/css among other things - Selector Gadget
I found this one recently- it allows you to build css selector statements for use in css and jquery, by highlighting a including or excluding elements in a page in a wysiwyg environment. No download required, this is just a piece of javascript which you add to your links bar, much like the word press “Press This” button - 960 Gridder
If your working on a site which has been built around the 960 Grid layout system, this is a handy javascript snippet you can drag into your links bar to overlay the grid layout lines (just like the above selector gadget… which is just like the press this button!)
General Development Tools
- Regulazy
Brilliant Regez builder from Roy Osherove
- LINQPad
Great free tool for building linq queries - Procmon
“ProcessMonitor”, previously owned by SysInternals, now bought up by microsoft, this is a useful tool for figuring out whats going on on your server/ dev machine- I’ve used this a few times for debugging permissions inssues, especially when installing stuff like PHP on IIS - Fiddler2
HTTP sniffer- good for web service debugging and the like
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