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Finaly! A Developer Tool in IE I Can Use! June 16, 2009

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Hello World,

My choice of browsers has always been Firefox. However as a web developer my clients expect me to deliver solutions that work in the current popular browsers – that includes Firefox and IE. Well, last night I decided to upgrade my “old” IE7 to the latest version – IE8. I did so not expecting what I found next.

Firebug has always been my developer tool of choice but it was only available for Firefox and not IE. Ok, I know what you’re thinking. Firebug Lite has been available for IE for sometime now. However I found that the differences between Firebug (the Firefox extension) and Firebug Lite (a Javascript add-in) are almost like night and day. In addition to that, in order to use Firebug Lite you need to insert a reference to a JavaScript file in your code. Now, with the release of IE8, I can finally see the light of day. IE8 includes a tool called Developer Tools. This is actually an improved and integrated version of the Developer’s Toolkit available as a IE add-on. All of the tools I have become accustomed to in Firebug are now available to me in IE8 – out of the box! Some of the Developer Tools include:

  • Debugging HTML and CSS
  • Debugging JavaScript
  • Profiling
  • Element Outlining
  • Controlling Cache and Cookies
  • Testing in Different Document Modes
  • Testing in Different Resolutions
  • and many more!

If you haven’t upgraded to IE8, visit this Microsoft site and take a look at some of it’s features. I think you’ll be impressed! In case you are not familiar with Firebug visit this site – you won’t be sorry.

“Let’s keep making this world a little better one app at a time”

Ciao

Upcoming User Group Presentation August 31, 2008

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HELLO WORLD,

If you live in the Washington, DC area or will be visiting the area this week I would suggest that you make plans to attend the next Capital Area Flex User Group meeting. We will be meeting at the AboutWeb offices on Wednesday September 3rd. I can give you three reasons why you should attend this meeting;

  1. Meet and network with fellow Flex developers
  2. Free pizza, free soda
  3. Listen to an engaging and informative presentation – given by yours truly

I will be doing a presentation on MATE, a tag-based architectural framework for Flex. You can get more information by view the My Presentations section or going to the CAFUG web site.

I hope to see you there

Ciao!

WebManiacs – Presentation #2 Downloads May 22, 2008

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HELLO WORLD,

My second presentation, Tweens, Behaviors, View States, and Transitions, was a lot of fun. You can find and download the full source, docs, and lab exercises by going to my Presentations page;

http://therush.wordpress.com/my-presentations/

Feel free to contact me should you have any questions or comments.

Thanks!

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