Tagged with Tools
Defaults can never please everyone. There’s always someone whose workflow is a little different. That one developer who likes to use SeaMonkey to test their pages or that weirdo who prefers to edit resx files as a text file.
I am that weirdo who likes to edit resx files as text files and rather than argue [...]
Published in Visual Studio on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
One problem I’ve had a couple of times when using Firebug to show things during code demos is I haven’t been able to make the font big enough for people at the back to read it.
I found the solution at stack overflow:
1. Open firebug in new window
2. Go to the view->text size menu
3. Close the [...]
Published in Tools on Sunday, November 16th, 2008
My find for today was a Firefox extension called Dust-Me Selectors from the SitePoint guys that scans a web site looking for unused selectors in the CSS.
It extracts the style references for the current page and then looks at the page to see where they are used. It can look at the current page or [...]
Published in CSS, Tools on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
My favourite new webdev tool of the moment is IETester. You can use it to test pages in IE5.5, IE6, IE7 and IE8 all on the same machine without messing around with your main installed version of IE.
I was pretty amazed when I saw it because I’d always believed that it was a bit dodgy [...]
Published in Browsers, Tools on Thursday, August 7th, 2008
I’m doing a lot of work with javascript that modifies the DOM so I really like tools like the Firefox rendered source chart plugin so I can see what’s actually going on in my page.
Rendered source chart in particular is a very slick plugin. It not only takes everything in the DOM and shows it [...]
Published in Tools, Web development on Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Something I really, really love at the moment is a little application called javascript lint.
It’s a javascript syntax checker that’s built on top of the Mozilla javascript engine. You can run it over a javascript include file (I don’t know if it’ll work on inline javascript) and it’ll syntax check it for you without you [...]
Published in Javascript, Tools, Web development on Monday, February 5th, 2007
I found a link to a new page for the really useful drip tool which looks for IE memory leaks in javascript code. There’s also been a new revision of the program by the guy who’s hosting it.
Published in Javascript, Tools, Web development on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Here’s a quick link for myself for the web developer toolbars you can install for Firefox and IE6.
I love them because the web developer toolbars make doing clientside work so much easier. They give you tools to find out information about the page that you’re working on without having to do a million alert statements. [...]
Published in Browsers, Tools, Web development on Monday, June 5th, 2006
Another great thing about SqlExpress is it comes with a great management tool that seems to have a much nicer UI than the evil incarnate that is SQL Server 2000’s Enterprise Manager which has all those horrible modal dialogs.
The new management tool is set up much like Visual Studio with a tabbed area containing each [...]
Published in SQL server on Monday, March 27th, 2006
I just wanted to blog a link to a cool tool that someone posted a link to on the MSWebDev list. It’s called prompt sql and provides an intellisense style dropdown menu to SQL Query analyser and the SQL editors in VS.NET.
Published in SQL server on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
Saw an interesting looking refactoring tool called DevAdvantage that looks like it’s a cross between FXCop and Resharper. I haven’t actually taken a look at it yet, but I really liked the fact you could set rules for things in aspx files.
I think the fact that aspx files aren’t really treated like “real code” is [...]
Published in ASP.NET on Saturday, October 1st, 2005
I found a useful little utility called Lint that checks for things in your javascript code that’s likely to introduce errors.
I really like that it checks for undeclared variables because I always, always, always want to declare my variables before I use them. Considering that forgetting to declare the variable sets it global for the [...]
Published in Javascript, Tools on Monday, August 15th, 2005
