Developer Blog

Linkblog

General

• Balupton's Facebook

  The Social Networking Revolution.

Blogs

• 37Signals Blog

  Brilliant blog that provides professional posts about the industry and things to help you improve.

• Ajaxian

  DHTML for the 21st century, Driving up web developer wages world-wide, The Web Renaissance is here, Because you need to have the coolest rounded corners.

• John Resig

  John Resig is a JavaScript Evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation and the author of the book ‘Pro Javascript Techniques.’ He’s also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. He’s currently located in Boston, MA.

• Neowin (Tech Journalism)

  The main site I use to get all my tech news. It also has a great forum.

Services / Products

• Aptana Studio

  Why? Aptana Studio offers unparalleled tooling for Ajax including HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript editing and debugging, plus support via additional free plugins for PHP, Ruby on Rails, Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone development.

• Facebook

  The next big thing on the web. A Social Networking Revolution. It has a great dev api allowing you to build applications for it.

• Firefox Extension: Adblock Plus

  Blocks all adverts.

• Firefox Extension: Edit Cookies

  Lets you view, create, and edit cookies.

• Firefox Extension: Firebug

  Lets me debug my javascript work, and inspect the DOM of a website easily.

• Firefox Extension: Greasemonkey

  Lets you make (or install other) javascript scripts that are attached to specified pages. Mainly used to change the display of a page to your liking “permanently".

• Firefox Extension: Html Validator

  When viewing the html source of the page, it highlights the code, displays validation information (and suggested fixes) for lines with problems, as well as a “cleanup” button that fixes everything.

• Firefox Extension: Quick Java

  Provides two little buttons in the status bar which you can click to turn on or off java and javascript.

• Firefox Extension: Tab Mix Plus

  Allows me to make tabs behave and display exactly the way I want them to.

• Firefox Extension: Tamper Data

  Lets you easily modify and view data within page request headers as they are happening. You can also allow or deny requests. Great for hacking.

• Firefox Extension: User Agent Switcher

  Lets you easily switch your user agent to another inside firefox. You can also create your own user agent headers.

• Firefox Extension: Web Developer

  Provides a lot of functions and things that you can use to help with the website development process.

• Google Personalized Home

  Keeps me up to date with all I care about in my chosen theme.

• jQuery (Javascript Library)

  jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

• Microsoft Windows Live Messenger

  How I chat with my peers.