We used to think that shift-reload, and being able to load a template directly was the be all of the Web. Now we can skip the shift-reload AND make changes to the running app and have the results saved out. Life is even better. AND we don't have to code in crazy ways to get the benefit.
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Posts Tagged "developer_tools"
Comparing Client Side MVC Frameworks; Moving beyond shift-reload and HTML templates
Posted by Dion Almaer 3 months ago on developer_tools
Firefox Developer Tools; Biggest Upgrade Since Firebug
Posted by Dion Almaer 3 months ago on developer_tools firefox
It has been fun to see Firefox adding new and improved tools to bleeding edge Firefox, and now we get it in the world of the stable.
Full Remote Tilt Fun; Power your deviceorientation
Posted by Dion Almaer 3 months ago on developer_tools deviceorientation
Remy Sharp has a penchant for building small useful tools. Today, he came out with Remote Tilt, which gives developers the ability to test motion events for devices... all in ~350 lines of code.
glue icons sprites –simple –crop
Posted by Dion Almaer 3 months ago on css developer_tools sprites
We have been using sprites to help web performance for quite some time now. There are tools all over to help with spriting, but a new kid on the block is glue.
Lumbar support for your Thorax; Introducing an opinionated Backbone application framework
Posted by Dion Almaer 4 months ago on backbone developer_tools html5 javascript mobile performance
Kick Fu to the Max
Posted by Dion Almaer 7 months ago on animation css css3 developer_tools sencha
Sencha is going to be speaking at Adobe Max this week (kinda surprised that Adobe hasn't bought them yet given their push into HTML5 tooling). Interesting to see a URL popup for a fun CSS3 animation demo, Kick Fu.
Add a heatwave to the get through the hurricane
Posted by Dion Almaer 8 months ago on canvas developer_tools performance
heatwave shows you a visualization in Canvas of hot spots in your code.
John J Barton and the future of Firebug
Posted by Dion Almaer 10 months ago on chrome developer_tools firebug
John J. Barton, technical lead of Firebug, has announced a new chapter in his life, as he joins Google to work on next gen Web developer tools for the Chrome team.
WebGL Inspector; The rich debugger you need for WebGL
Posted by Dion Almaer about a year ago on debugger developer_tools inspector webgl
Ben Vanik has done good here. As you start to see great WebGL content, and you get the call to code it up yourself, you quickly realize that some tools may be nice.Ben has gone ahead and helped with WebGL Inspector, an open source debugging toolset for WebGL.
Opera Dragonfly 1.0
Posted by Dion Almaer about a year ago on developer_tools dragonfly opera
Congrats to the Opera Dragonfly team on their 1.0 release. We are seeing a lot of dogfooding, as tools for the Web are being built in the Web. Dragonfly was one of the first as they built out the product on top of HTML/JS/CSS/SVG.