Development Tools
Here are some software tools that are helpful.
- Putty - Windows and linux tool for ssh to our dev environments (free)
- Fiddler - tool for seeing http requests through a proxy (free)
- Jing - Screenshots and screenshot sharing made simple (free)
- Netbeans - Multi-platform coding environment (opensource)https://drupal.org/node/1019816
- Aptana - Multi-Platform coding environment (open source) faster than netbeans
- Javascript Beautifier - an online tool to make javascript and arrays easier to read
- Pingdom - Speed test tool
Browser plugins
- Firebug - html inspector and javascript console for Firefox (Firebug lite for Chrome)
- Chrome to Phone - a chrome app and an android app pair that puts a button on your chrome browser that will send any page you are on to your android phone's browser.
Web-Based Tools
Join.me - dirt simple screen sharing utility (free).