Which Web Developer Tools Do You Use? January 8, 2009
Posted by therush in ColdFusion, Misc.trackback
Hello World,
Last night’s meeting and presentation with the Capital Flex users group was very informative. After the presentation (and pizza break) we began an informal “round table” discussion about the various FREE and OPEN SOURCE tools web developers use to test, debug, inspect, and manage. I did my best to remember all of the great tools that were mentioned that night.Here are a few:
AlivePDF
http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/
An open source ActionScript 3 library for client-side PDF generationSelenium
http://seleniumhq.org/
Web application testing toolFireBug
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
A Firefox add-in that enables you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.ServiceCapture
http://www.kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/
A tool that captures and displays ALL HTTP trafficOpenSTA
http://www.opensta.org/
A software stress and load testing toolDrupal
http://drupal.org/
An open source content management systemColdFire
http://coldfire.riaforge.org/
A Firefox extension that displays ColdFusion debug information in a separate tabWeb Developer
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
A Firefox add-in toolbar containing various web developer tools
It is likely that I may have forgotten to mention one or more of the tools we discussed last night. If you attended this meeting and see that I failed to mention a tool that you use, please feel free to comment. If you did not attend this meeting but you still have a valuable web developer tool that you would like to mention, please feel free to comment. Later I may create a page devoted to listing many of the web developer tools.
Thanks everyone in advance!
Ciao
hey theo! One tool I’ve found useful for web development is Multiple IEs (http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE). It lets you test in different versions of IE without jumping through hoops. Another quickie IE helper is the IETab firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
These tools — for me anyway — seem to numb the pain of IE a bit.
While not free its still a great tool. I would hate to be without it. Beyond Compare: http://www.scootersoftware.com
AutoHotKey! For reducing those repetitive things…
I am happy to hear that you are using AlivePDF !
Some cool stuff is coming up in the next update, thank you guys for talking about AlivePDF
best,
Thibault
Theo .. glad the input helped
Just passing by.Btw, your website have great content!
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another tool (not free) which might be of interest: web2test (http://en.web2test.de/) for the testing of web applications. It offers quite some options for the realisation of test scenarios while still being easy to use (short learning curve). They offer a free demo/evaluation on their site.