Developer tools , Development tools

FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates and edits screenshots of web pages.
Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers

This section describes tools that improve productivity of a software development programmer.This solution watch Blog has ton of tools reviewed, check it out when required

CrossLoop – Simple Secure Screen Sharing - Remote PC

good desktop search, works good with email search etc.. - allow to cache 1 day

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Aptana Studio -- HTML/CSS/JavaScript Development
-- Pre-included popular Ajax libraries
-- Iphone, Ruby on Rails development IDE , It is Eclipse plugin, CEO former JRun creator

web development tools
professor-x x-ray: view CSS, HTML source on same page:
- both tools together are great if you have 2 screens side by side
- http://www.designmeme.com/2006/06/19/professor-x-extension-for-firefox/

Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. No other test tool covers such a wide array of platforms.
http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1077
http://www.openqa.org/selenium-ide/
http://www.openqa.org/selenium-ide/


Firebug : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/ -- great
FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, an error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.
( asr: walk over by pointing cusor on UI and see HTML soruce tree, Layout info and CSS style for each high lighted element on the screen )

webdeveloper: firefox extension , great is shows forms, form fields, CSS ( can see how depth is form element ), image info
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60 -- find at this url , read reviews people love it .
-- have this webdeveloper as docked menu on the top of Firefox browser, you can view CSS, Forms, Information (table depth useful), Cookies this gives lots of info about the page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1843&application=firefox
FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter asr: seems eqivalent of Httpwatch tool for IE

HTTP headers
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

The goal of this project is to adds information about the HTTP headers in two ways:

First by adding a 'Headers' tab in 'View Page Info' of a web page.
Second by adding a tool in the 'Tools->Web Development' menu to be able to display http headers in real time (while pages are being downloaded from the Internet.
Third by letting you edit request headers and replay an URL (beta). Look for the Replay button in the live window!
( see in tools menu )

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free or Open source good productivity tools
30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows
http://digg.com/software/30_Essential_Pieces_Of_Free_and_Open_Software_for_Windows_4
-- good they covered Filezilla ( FTP s/w) , word processor abiword ..

ftp: http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client -- filezilla seems free
smartFTP

putty : remote SSH ( secure shell ) client

IM:
Trillian: The Ultimate Chat Program

browsers:
firefox, extensions: IE-Tab, googlesearch ( editable results)


falsh:
FusionCharts

editors:
notepad++ (excellent with color coding and tabs )
Jedit - has remote FTP file editing, can use as HTML editor , Perl Editor ....
Eclipse - java IDE
Nvu (MS frontpage equi http://www.nvu.com/ )
firefox - web developer plugins : great for CSS source code view on mouse over , HTML etc.. simply great

http://www.timelyweb.com/free/pathnames.html -- copy pathname
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2004/PL2004FILEUTILITIES.php -- this also worked ...
http://camtech2000.com/Programs/cpypth10.zip

file search:
Agent Ransack ( much faster than microsoft file manager search )
wingrep - more versatile than agent Ransack
google desktop

prog lang:
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP , Look for Ruby/PHP firendly editors probably same NotePad++ or Jedit ( plugins?)


DB :
MyphpDB? , Mysql

caching:
jboss cache,

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