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Awesome web developer apps
Apr 12th
Finding the right tool to do web development is key to being successful. Technically, you can do the majority of the job by just using a simple text editor, but it seems silly to not take advantage of the great apps out there today. Since there are many apps that aid in this category, I thought I might pick a few favorites and give some insight into why they are awesome web apps.
The all mighty web browserAlthough I have enjoyed the some-what recent release of Google’s Chrome browser for Mac OS X, it isn’t the right browser for the web developer. Perhaps in the future it might have a chance, but until the plugins start running on Mac OS X, and some other minor glitches are worked out (like refreshing the cache when I tell you to Chrome), you have to use Firefox.
Even though Firefox isn’t the fastest browser out there, it does a very good job with web standards and it has web developer specific plugins:
- Web Developer: this plugin has some great options for debugging and testing
- Firebug: this plugin is great when you need to debug JavaScript and AJAX.
- MeasureIt: this simple plugin lets you measure distance in pixels, More >