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4Nov/090

Tools for the job

tools Here are some tools / gems / plugins I can't live without:

Aptana Rad Rails - very good at Rails and Ruby. It's based on Eclipse - Java - so it tends to bloat
gedit- Tiny footprint, simple. Great for web and PHP with the right plugins and conf tweaks

continuously going back to firefox and firebug for javascript debugging. for now, it's much better than any browser developer console 2 weeks ago
As consequence of the floods cant make a phone call, but net is ok 2 weeks ago
Big floods around here. Family and friends are ok AFAIK. 2 weeks ago
Such a storm here, I can see the waves breaking down there http://twitpic.com/14birh 2 weeks ago
FireQuery - jQuery love for Firebug - http://bit.ly/cxjGlR 3 weeks ago
"Life is the shit that happens when you're waiting for the moments that never come" - Lester on "The Wire" 3 weeks ago
big question when using javascript: who is this? sneaky little bastard... 4 weeks ago
javascript is a wonderful world, but it's like any other (good) language: you'll have to learn how to do it right, or else you'll hate it. 1 month ago
got to love google for forcing an upgrade from IE6. my web developer heart is with them 1 month ago
Rails date math is the best RT @joelmoss: Rails is Genius: Date.today + 1.month = Wed, 24 Feb 2010. Try doing that in PHP! 1 month ago