Slowy is a real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter for OSX. It helps web developer test real-world conditions for a local development environment.
A tool for analyzing JavaScript code in Titanium Mobile projects. It provide a wide variety of useful functionality: runtime error detection, Titanium API deprecation warnings, platform specific API validation, etc.
A task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects that makes performing repetitive but necessary tasks such as linting, unit testing, concatenating and minifying files trivial.
http://twitter.github.com/ospriet/
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Ospriet is a moderation tool that allows for audiences to post and vote on questions/comments for talks, presentations, and events. The application is written in node.js, uses MongoDB for database storage, and is designed for deployment on nodejitsu.
https://translate.sourceforge.io/wiki/virtaal/index
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Virtaal is a graphical translation tool. It is meant to be easy to use and powerful at the same time, and supports a bunch of translation files formats.
A js graphical library for drawing charts. It stands on top of jQuery, MooTools or Prototyp, depending on the host project fundations, and provides a large serie of nice colored animated charts.
http://www.exceptionhub.com/
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* Logs all JavaScript errors (local or remote)
* Provides a stack trace to find the cause in all browsers
* Groups errors by cause
* Development and Production modes
* RSS feeds for errors
Notable lets you take any webpage screenshot, sketch or wireframe and exchange notes on specific details with your team. very useful tool for designers or functionnal project leads.
This brand new specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. When implemented, this will help track web pages frontend performance.
http://yahoo.github.com/boomerang/doc/
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boomerang is a piece of javascript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end user's point of view. It has the ability to send this data back to your server for further analysis. It allowsto measure the round-trip time, bandwith usage and latency.
wkhtmltopdf is a shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt. The project also distributes wkhtmltoimage, which is an easy tool to produce web pages screenshots.
HOWTO: Easily enable MP3, MPEG4, AAC, and other restricted encoders in FFmpeg - Ubuntu Forums
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A common question is "why doesn't the repository FFmpeg convert to mp3, aac, mpeg4, etc?". Ubuntu doesn't make it very clear to the general user as to why to repo FFmpeg is so limited or how to fix this issue. This is reflected in the number of forum questions relating to this topic.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2691/
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A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results...
very neat and useful indeed!
Bouncer is a real time statistics and security engine written in PHP5. It analyses the browser or bot version, and detects eventual bad behaviors in order to prevent spam.
The bugs tracker Trac goes to version 0.12, with lots of good things inside : translation of the user interface, multiple repositories support, preview "side-by-side" in wiki edition, and more...
A fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool. It creates a html reports which might prove useful for detecting security flaws or conception problems.
PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.
Pupload is a jQuery implementation of a multi-upload widget. If uses either a Falsh component, html5, Gears, Silverlight or Yahoo BrowserPlus in order to provide a strong and highly reliable multi-upload system.
Maatkit is a package which contains high-quality command-line tools for MySQL. The tools enable power users of MySQL to do their work more safely and quickly by relying on tested software instead of scripting things themselves. The toolkit includes functionality such as table checksums, a query profiler, and a visual EXPLAIN tool, a multiprocess version of mysqldump.
SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, Javascript-driven SVG editor that works in any modern browser: With an nice nifty demonstration on http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/editor/svg-editor.html
http://www.checkmycolours.com/
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CheckMyColours is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits.
https://www.pixelwindowapp.com/
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PixelWindow is a simple, light-weight, cross-platform application for measuring things on your screen. It creates a transparent window that acts like a pixel ruler with its width and height reported in the center. Usefull when fixing a page layout.
pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
http://www.phantomfish.com/byline.html
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ByLine is an IPhone application which synchronises Google Reader and your IPhone, letting you read your last feed entries right from the IPhone - even offline.
I am going to test it!
Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events. In other words, it is the nervous system for how distributed processing communicates.
One type of asynchronous and worker solution I could use in the implementation of asynchronousity in Symfony's media plugin
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
Seems to be little more usable than wireshark!
COOoder | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions
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As an aternative to my previous bookmark, COOoder works on all platforms. I however had some problems working with it in OO Impress (font size, etc.). Useful though.
AddressBookSync | Facebook Picture Synchronization with OS X Address Book
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AddressBookSync is a free Mac OS X application to download profile pictures and other Facebook data to Address Book cards. This is a handy tool to keep your contacts' pictures updated if you have numerous Facebook friends in your Mac OS X Address Book.
"Jet Profiler for MySQL is real-time query performance and diagnostics tool for the MySQL database server". I love the Query ratings feature and the live query observation - should replace the weak use of MySQL proxy.
fluidIA is an online design tool for prototyping rich user interfaces. Jakub, author of Wireframe magazine (another reading that I would advice) just launched the project.
A flah to FLA decompiler - helps debugging or searching what is done in a flash. I have seen some use case where this was used for breaking cryptographic algorithms used by flash video|music players.
Safari's inspector has been redesigned a few months ago, but I didn't notice this. It looks pretty and rather efficient, I am gonna give it a try on our next project.
Pingboard is a simple Mac OS X Dashboard widget for posting to the Ping.fm social aggregator service.The client is eprforming well, but it's just a shame that it looks so ugly!
Drawter Beta 2 is a tool written in JavaScript and based on jQuery library. It provides you the possibility to literally draw your website's code. It runs on every single web-browser which makes it really useful and helpful. Each tag is presented as a layer you have drawn.
mite ist ein schlankes Online-Tool zur Erfassung und Auswertung von Arbeitszeit. Entworfen in enger Zusammenarbeit mit und für Teams und Freiberufler: Architekten, Designer, Entwickler, Rechtsanwälte, Universitäten und und und.
Image Optimization, Part 3: Four Steps to File Size Reduction » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
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This post is about some common tools you can use to reduce the file size of your images. The idea is to be able to just take the images your designer has created and instead of using them ?as is?, go ahead and tidy them up in short time and no effort, without even looking at them.
SmushIt is an online tool that optimizes images. A firefox extension is available, that allows to optimize all the images of one web page at one stretch.
NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF, an image or a Quicktime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.
http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
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Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.
http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/Home.html
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With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package.
Tailor is a tool to migrate or replicate changesets between ArX, Bazaar, Bazaar-NG, CVS, Codeville, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion and Tla repositories.
Versions provides a pleasant way to work with Subversion on your Mac. Whether you’re a hardcore Subversion user or new to version control systems, Versions will help streamline your workflow.
https://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly
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Welcome to Opera Dragonfly alpha, the foundations of Opera's upcoming Developer Tools. Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors – Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone.
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introduction-to-opera-dragonfly/
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We have unleashed the Dragonfly! Opera Dragonfly is Opera's all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective mechanisms for web standards debugging and problem solving without slowing down the browser, and fits in nicely with the development workflow.
Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps. It is easily extensible and suitable for both desktop and web development.
GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Panther or Tiger to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows).
Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".
http://developer.spikesource.com/projects/phpcheckstyle
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Spike PHPCheckstyle is an open-source tool that helps PHP programmers adhere to certain coding conventions. The tools checks the input PHP source code and reports any deviations from the coding convention.
