Web Development Tools
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
- 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
- http://builtwith.com which is very useful when trying to work out the technology a site is built with
2 Database Tools
- 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
- 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
5 HTML Formatting Tools
- 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 Email construction notes - Writing_HTML_Emails
- ColorMatch 5K - http://www.colormatch5k.com/
6 eLearning Tools
| Tool | Use | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- CCCP - http://www.cccp-project.net/
- DivX - http://www.divx.com/
- Quicktime - http://www.apple.com/ie/quicktime/download/
8 Maintenance and System Speed
- 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
- 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
- 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