Tools of Trade
FIREFOX PLUGINS
- ColorZilla – Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Palette Viewer and other colorful goodies for your Firefox
- Firebug – Web Development Evolved
- FirePHP – Firebug Extension for AJAX Development.
- FireQuery – Firebug extensions for jQuery development
- FireShot – Allows to capture images of entire pages or specific regions and export to images format, pdf, etc
- Firesizer – Allows to change the windows size to specific sizes
- IE Tab Plus – Allows to use the IE render engine inside Firefox
- IE View – Open pages in IE from the context menu in Firefox
- Session Manager – Saves and restaures the state of all windows
- SQL Inject Me – And extensions to test for SQL injection vulnerabilities
- Web Developer – Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web development tools
- YSlow – Make your pages faster with Yahoo!’s page performance tool
- Hackbar – Simple security audit / Penetration test tool.
PHP librarys:
- ADODB – Database abstraction library for PHP – http://adodb.sourceforge.net/
- WideImage – An open-source PHP library for image manipulation – http://wideimage.sourceforge.net/
PHP Frameworks:
- CodeIgniter – CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework – http://codeigniter.com/
- PRADO – Component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5. – http://www.pradosoft.com
APPS
- Aptana Studio
- Fiddler
- MySQL Workbench – MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by MySQL. It is the highly anticipated successor application of the DBDesigner4 project. MySQL Workbench is available as a native GUI tool on Windows, Linux and OS X in different editions. See the following link for more information about the editions available.
- Wamp Server
- ColorPic
- Putty (with SuperPutty)
- Notepad++
- Dropbox – The easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There’s no complicated interface to learn.
- NetDrive
- CodeDesigner
- Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- IE
- Opera
- PHPMyAdmin
- Yahoo! Smush.it – Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. It is a “lossless” tool, which means it optimizes the images without changing their look or visual quality. After Smush.it runs on a web page it reports how many bytes would be saved by optimizing the page’s images and provides a downloadable zip file with the minimized image files.
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