Web Development Tools
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There are many tools available on the web that can save time and be really really helpful for developers.
Here is a list of our favourites and most heavily used tools.
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1 Development Tools
Tool | Use | Link |
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Adobe Dreamweaver | http://www.adobe.com/ie/products/dreamweaver.html | |
Notepad ++ | Notepad++ | |
Microsoft Visual Studio | http://www.visualstudio.com/ | |
NVIDIA CUDA Tools | https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone | |
About.com | The 10 Best Free Web Editors for Windows | http://webdesign.about.com/od/windowshtmleditors/tp/free-windows-editors.htm |
Is very useful when trying to work out the technology a site is built with | http://builtwith.com |
2 Database Tools
Tool | Use | Link |
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MySQL Server | http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ | |
MySQL Workbench | http://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/ | |
Percona | Slow Log Analyzer | http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.2/pt-query-digest.html |
3 Browsers
Tool | Use | Link |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer | http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IE/internet-explorer/download-ie | |
Mozilla Firefox | http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ | |
Google Chrome | http://www.google.com/intl/en_ie/chrome/browser/ | |
Apple Safari | http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1531 | |
Opera Opera | http://www.opera.com/computer/windows |
4 Browser plugins for developers
Tool | Use | Link |
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Firebug | https://getfirebug.com/ | |
BrowserStack | http://www.browserstack.com/ |
5 HTML Formatting Tools
Tool | Use | Link |
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Encode URLs | http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ | |
HTML and XHTML Validation | http://validator.w3.org/ | |
CSS Validation | http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ | |
HTML Emails | Email construction notes | Writing_HTML_Emails |
ColorMatch 5K | http://www.colormatch5k.com/ |
6 eLearning Tools
Tool | Use | Link |
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1001Free Fonts | Not all fonts are free when used commercially but a lot of free stuff | http://www.1001freefonts.com/ |
Adobe Captivate | eLearning content authoring. | http://www.adobe.com/ie/products/captivate.html |
DVDVideoSoft | Video format conversion. Exceptionally useful for converting MP4, MKV, AVI, DIVX and others to SWF format for cross browser compatibility. | http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/ |
GIMP | Free GNU Image Manipulation Tool | http://www.gimp.org |
iStock | Stock photography and illustrations | http://www.istockphoto.com/ |
Sparkol | Easily make videos appear as animated hand drawn output | http://www.sparkol.com/ |
To learn more about converting to Flash format | Converting_MP4_to_SWF |
7 Video Codes and Players
Tool | Use | Link |
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CCCP | http://www.cccp-project.net/ | |
DivX | http://www.divx.com/ | |
Quicktime | http://www.apple.com/ie/quicktime/download/ |
8 Maintenance and System Speed
Tool | Use | Link |
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7Zip | http://www.7-zip.org/ | |
WinRar | http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm | |
AVG Free | http://free.avg.com/ie-en/homepage | |
Spybot 1.6.2 | http://www.safer-networking.org/mirrors16/ | |
CCleaner | https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner | |
Clonezilla | http://clonezilla.org/ | |
UBUNTU | http://www.ubuntu.com/ |
9 Security Testing
Tool | Use | Link |
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Kali | (Linux Debian Operating system) | http://www.kali.org/ |
Vega | (Windows based penetration Testing) | https://subgraph.com/vega/download/ |
10 File Viewers and Document Reading
Tool | Use | Link |
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Adobe Acrobat Viewer | http://get.adobe.com/reader/ | |
Adobe Flash Viewer | http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ | |
Adobe Shockwave Viewer | http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ | |
Microsoft Word Document Viewer | http://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=4 | |
Microsoft Excel Document Viewer | http://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=10 | |
Microsoft PowerPoint Document Viewer | http://www.microsoft.com/en-IE/download/details.aspx?id=6 | |
Microsoft Visio Document Viewer | http://www.microsoft.com/en-IE/download/details.aspx?id=21701 |
11 Support Tools
Tool | Use | Link |
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TeamViewer | http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows.aspx | |
Skype | http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/ | |
Filezilla | https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client | |
GIMP | http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ | |
Flux | https://justgetflux.com/ |