Development Tips & Tricks
This top 10 list is updated regularly, to help web developers and software developers stay informed on cool stuff.
- SCRUM - an agile development method keeps your projects on track! It's really simple, check out this article on wikipedia for more info.
- Buba XPath Builder - a must if you are working with XML, BizTalk Server 2006 or XPath in any form. You simply load up your XML file, and test XPath expressions using this super cool tool.
- UltraEdit - the best text editor ever, for programming and non-programming purposes. If you are not using UltraEdit yet, then you are really missing out!
- The new Linux distribution Ubuntu 8.04 is out, and when they claim it 'Just works' - well, they are right! Simple automatic installation and support for most modern hardware makes this my favorite Linux distribution.
- Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 is in Beta 1. It's really promising as an alternative to Flash, and much easier to learn for .NET developers.
- Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) is part of the .NET 3.0 framework and preinstalled on Windows Vista. Learn more, it makes a big difference for GUI programming.
- Streaming video tutorials online? It's possible to save streaming content using the tools URL Snooper and Net Transport! Get them from download.com.
- Want to build your own YouTube clone? Check out the impressive PHPMotion, an open source php project.
- Serious development teams must automate the build and test process. There's a good article to get you started on Wrox by Adam Kolawa.
- How to setup Apache, PHP and MySQL on Windows XP and Windows Vista? Download the WampServer 2.0 package. It installs a PHP MySQL development platform with the click of a button.
We are updating the top 10 list on a regular basis, so keep checking back.
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