Category Archives: Tools

Posts discussing the tools we use daily as web developers.

Subversion 1.5 Released

Subversion 1.5 is out.  For those of us who haven’t moved to GIT yet… SVN 1.5 brings a load of new stuff:

Merge tracking (foundational)

Interactive conflict resolution
Changelist support
Speed improvements, cancellation response improvements

More than 150 new bug fixes, enhancements

And a host of other things!  I’m sure Tortoise and the other clients will be updated soon as well.

Open-source Killing Commercial Tools (IDE)

Saw this interesting article on Slashdot - Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools. Will Adobe ever release an updated IDE for ColdFusion?  And if they do - would anyone buy it?
The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source [...]

Why Is Fusion Authority Quarterly Update So Good?

Haven’t subscribed yet to Fusion Authority Quarterly Update?
Why you ask should I do that?

Because it’s the only ColdFusion centric publication out there?
Because it’s always full of top notch content written by the best in the ColdFusion community?
Because it has a top notch editing staff that makes writing for them easy?
Because the content to ad ratio [...]

Selenium IDE 1.0 Beta 2 Released

I was getting ready to run some Selenium tests and on checking the Open QA site noticed that they have released a new beta for Selenium IDE.

Changelog is here.
Release notes here.

One big one I see - Firefox 3 support!

jsLex and Bromine

jsLex looks neat (it’s an Eclipse plugin):
jsLex gives developers a complete picture of the performance issues with-in thier Ajax application. By auto injecting profiling code using jsLex ant task, developers don’t need to modify their code to track down bottlenecks, minimizing coding erros and saving time.
Looks like it does quite a bit more than that [...]

Twitter: What are you doing? Nothing. Because Your Service Is Down.

I’ve grown hooked on Twitter.  But of all the Beta, Web 2.0 applications I use - it is the most unreliable application.  At first I thought it was my Twhirl client at home.  I’m running it on the Air Linux alpha and I figured there were some issues and that’s why I couldn’t connect.  Then [...]

Air Apps on Lifehacker - freshAIRapps

One of the sites I hit daily is Lifehacker.  Today I noticed a post about freshAIRapps a directory of
ratings and reviews of many new and new-to-AIR apps
It’s cool to see Air out in the wild and getting some good press!  Check it out at:  http://freshairapps.com/
Quick update:  Appears the site is hosed due to traffic  [...]

John Resig on Accessibility, ARIA and Fire Vox

I’ve been using jQuery more and more at work but have been having to hold off some of the more advanced uses because of accessibility concerns. Working with the Government we are looking more and more at 508 and accessibility and right now AJAX is a bit of a gray area.
Today John Resig (author of [...]

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