Welcome to Mahemoff's blog on web development, UX, and software development. I most recently worked in developer relations at Google, focusing on Chrome and HTML5, and am now busy baking a few apps independently.
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jQuery – A library whose elegance vastly exceeds anything else on the market to the extent it has redefined the Javascript landscape, has excellent performance, came on the scene with superb documentation.
Firebug – The tool that increased my web programming productivity by a factor of 3.
Web Developer Toolbar – Before Firebug, there was Web Developer Toolbar, an excellent way to inspect the page state that is still useful at times.
The Ajax Design Pattern – Yes, JJG didn’t come up with anything new and people were doing it before, but this was a “right time, right place” case where the name immediately spawned a massive community of people sharing ideas and experiences.
Firefox – Browser + Detailed Settings + Tabs (credit Opera) + Plugin Mechanism = developer’s best friend.
View Source – The ability to look under the covers, responsible for rapid accumulation of knowledge in web apps.
StackOverflow – Increasingly becoming the no-brainer search result for programming problems and a vast improvement over the cruddy SEOtastic train wrecks that went before it.
Great list, Michael!
Nice idea for a post. I hope HTML5 will one day makes that list
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I doubt jquery being in wonders. No harsh feelings but believe me, its not the ultimate js framework. There are more flexible and modular frameworks out there!
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