#tools (841 links)
- Nicholas Zambetti – LiveView for iPhone zambetti.com
A specialized remote screen viewing application intended as a tool to help designers create graphics for mobile applications, it has also proven to be useful for creating quick and dirty simulations, demos, and experience prototypes.
I sort of hate the fact that I'm saving this. It is useful, though.
- Open Site Explorer Link Analysis opensiteexplorer.org
SEOMoz's new link popularity checker and backlink analysis tool.
- Facebook Developers | Tools developers.facebook.com
API and FBML test consoles plus Facebook Connect playground.
The general rule of thumb is – if you don’t actually need to use any scripted languages like PHP or ASP, and you don’t need to access the API to get the user’s information for any reason, you probably don’t actually need an application.
- All commands | commandlinefu.com commandlinefu.com
The place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. Delete that bloated snippets file you've been using and share your personal repository with the world.
- Xmarks | Bookmark Sync and Search xmarks.com
- Redmine - Overview - Redmine redmine.org
A RoR Trac clone.
- ClueMapper – Trac projects.serverzen.com
A web-based application for managing software and software-based consulting projects. Currently it uses Trac to handle individual projects but adds the ability to create new trac instances, svn configurations, etc.
- WebFaction Wiki - InstallScripts wiki.webfaction.com
Unofficial webfaction install scripts: CakePHP, AWStats, MediaWiki and more...
All Ninite does is automatically download and install the apps you select. Not even Ninite is installed.
- django-lint - Statically check Django applications « code « lamby chris-lamb.co.uk
Reports on common programming errors and bad code smells, including checking for nullable CharField field types, the use of brittle or deprecated Django features (such as auto_now_add) as well as the absence of recommended options in settings.py. It aims to encourage the development of high-quality re-usable Django applications.
- virtualhost-sh - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
This script allows you to easily create virtual hosts for a development environment on Mac OS X with the built-in Apache server so that you can reflect a production environment locally.
- ImageOptim – PNG/JPEG/GIF optimizer for Mac OS X imageoptim.pornel.net
"Optimizes images [...] by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations." Be interesting to see how this stacks up against smush.it.
- Slammer - Designer's Geometry Box ringce.com
Gives you any grid you want, anywhere you want: Typographic Grids, Golden Sections, Fibonacci series or Rule of Thirds. Thats not all, Slammer also has Rulers, Crosshairs, Magnifier, Measurements & Screenshots
- Soma FontFriend • Soma Design somadesign.ca
A bookmarklet for typographically obsessed web designers. It enables rapid checking of fonts and font styles directly in the browser without editing code and refreshing pages.
- Pagetest - where web sites go to get FAST! webpagetest.org
Shows "a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist."
- Semantic Versioning semver.org
<blockquote>I propose a simple set of rules and requirements that dictate how version numbers are assigned and incremented. For this system to work, you first need to declare a public API. This may consist of documentation or be enforced by the code itself. Regardless, it is important that this API be clear and precise. Once you identify your public API, you communicate changes to it with specific increments to your version number. Consider a version format of X.Y.Z (Major.Minor.Patch). Bug fixes not affecting the API increment the patch version, backwards compatible API additions/changes increment the minor version, and backwards incompatible API changes increment the major version.</blockquote>
- Visual Website Optimizer - Hassle-free A/B, Split and Multivariate Testing visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- Continuous Integration martinfowler.com
A quick [!] overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage.
- Easy front-end framework easyframework.com
A CSS/HTML/JavaScript framework started as a personal project and then grew into something more. The idea behind it is to reduce the amount of time spent on setting up the basic master HTML template by reusing the same coding techniques.
- Test Mobile Applications on Real Devices - Perfecto Mobile perfectomobile.com
- TuneChecker - Compare Cheap MP3 Single and Album Prices tunechecker.com
New tool from MSE; checks digital prices across a range of digital stores. Shame it doesn't query more independents, though.
- Google Public DNS code.google.com
A free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.
- SilverStripe.org - Open Source CMS / Framework silverstripe.org
- minify - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
"A PHP5 app that helps you follow several of Yahoo!'s Rules for High Performance Web Sites. It combines multiple CSS or Javascript files, removes unnecessary whitespace and comments, and serves them with gzip encoding and optimal client-side cache headers." Hubba, hubba.
- Premailer: pre-flight for HTML email premailer.dialect.ca
- Plugins | jQuery Plugins plugins.jquery.com
Instead of downloading all Jquery-plugins, you might or might not need, Lazy downloads the plugins when you actually use them.
- LFS - Lightning Fast Shop: Start getlfs.com
Lightweight Django store.
- Satchmo Project satchmoproject.com
Satchmo's mission is to use Django to create an open source framework for creating unique and robust online stores. To provide maximum flexibility, Satchmo is licensed under the BSD license.
- LaunchBar 5 obdev.at
It's probably about time to replace Quicksilver. This looks like a decent alternative.
- gridr buildrrr gridr.atomeye.com
Grrr. Cheaper than buying designers rulers.
"An HTTP viewer and debugger that integrates with IE and Firefox to provide seamless HTTP and HTTPS monitoring without leaving the browser window." Win only, basic (free) and pro (pay) versions.
- SCM Integration Scripts - ChangesWiki wiki.changesapp.com
Using Changes app with svn, git etc.
Ugly but useful.
- Write HTML and CSS quicker with with Zen Coding | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Zen Coding lets you use syntax that looks very much like CSS selectors to write HTML
- robhudson/django-debug-toolbar @ GitHub robhudson.github.com
A configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.
- PostBin - Debug web hooks postbin.org
Lets you debug web hooks by capturing and logging the asynchronous requests made when events happen. Make a PostBin and register the URL with a web hook provider. All POST requests to the URL are logged for you to see when you browse to that URL.
- macosxvirtualserialport - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
Do you want to test your next Mac OS X-to-Arduino project without always having the Arduino available? Do you want to test you cool Processing application when your mate hasn't finished writing the Arduino sketch? Do you want to do test driven development of your Mac OS X based application without dependency on your microcontroller?
Discover when the golden hour is at your current location, explore visually how the golden hour changes with the seasons and where you are in the world. [...] We calculate sunrise and sunset times. the elevation and azimuth of the sun and of course, display the golden hour.