I plan, I design, I built

Every few months, i will be googling or check out new web development tools for my work and personal projects. Unbelievably,  new cool and fantastic tools kept poping up, something you even have problem which best tool to used. The tools i meant here, are tools like IDE, plug-in, library, framework, cms, test-suite and more. Below, are the list of tools that currently i am using and found it very useful and increasing my productivity. All the tools are OPEN  SOURCE which i am a very big fan of.

Firefox Add-ons

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1.  Again, Firebug win my heart. This tool let you inspect and edit CSS on the fly. Not only css, debugging javascript with it, save tons of your time to look for javascript errors.

Firebug screen shot

2. iOpus iMacros – from a Firefox add-ons : to record form filling and replay the task you had been recorded. Save your time kept repeating testing for web forms, useful for web testing, web scraping and more.

IMacro

3. Web development- from a Firefox add-ons : Great tools with lots of functionality for web developers. Such as markup validation,  cookies management, http header management and more.

Web Development toolbar (Firefox add-ons

4. XDebug for Javascript

5. Yahoo YSLOW – Javascript profiler : A great tools to check how to faster up your website. Their also provide best practice and guideline how to improve website loading performances.

Framework

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1. Zend framework : started using recently and fall in love with it. Strong MVC architecture support and database adapter.

2. jQuery : Javascript framework that i will use in every project that in the future. LOVE IT!!

CSS

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1. 960 Grid System from MIT. Very easy to use and faster up your layout  design for a new website without worrying if the new row or column will expand accordingly.

Forum

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1. Although this part is a bit not relevant, but i insist to introduce the best question and answer programming/IT forum : www.stackoverflow.com

2. Slashdot : Ah!!..sometimes you need a break from your IDE or notepad.

Time Tracker

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1. I use RTM : Remember the Milk task list which integrate well with Gmail Task List.

2. Google Calendar : Use it for weekly planner and task remimder which sent free sms reminder to your mobile phone.