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Ben Galbraith – The state of developer tools | Web Directions.

The tools look pretty interesting and its been a while since i have seen a single list of tools that people are using. I really love using tools because they make me more efficient. Not all tools are the same and not all tools help but i find that tools tend to make the job a LOT easier. It is kinda amazing to me that more people dont go looking for tools to make there coding life easier. Its like being a carpentor but not having a hammer or a table saw or the right tool to do a circle cut and then spending hours doing it by hand and not getting it perfect only to find that there is a tool that would have done it. The big difference is that software tools are mostly freely available and only a few of them actually cost more than $30-$70. Here are a list of tools that i tend to use in no particular order.

• VIM
• Css Edit
• Firebug

I have a ton of other apps that i use as i code as well but i dont know if i would call them tools. I’ll write about those as well in the next blog entry.

High Performance Web Sites :: Mobile Gmail and async script loading.

Articles like this area awesome when people use the system they have to do some ingenious delayed loading/parsing. What a lot of people dont realize is that CSS has the same level of issues on load/parse time. I wonder if you can do the same trick with inline CSS.