Archive for the ‘tools’ Category

Taking screenshos of websites is not a frequent requirement for developers but can come handy on many occasions. Although there are some nice solutions on the web, a particular one I found very good is wkhtmltoimage. wkhtmltoimage is a simple shell utility which can be used to convert html to images using the webkit rendering [...]

With Adobe Flash not being natively supported by Apple iOS, there have been some attempts from programmers to convert Flash files to HTML, such as SmokeScreen and Gordon; which will help developers easily port existing Flash content to iOS devices (iPad, iPhone). Not to be left behind on its own turf, Adobe has come up [...]

I usually use Selenium for testing web applications or some quick screen scraping jobs. It is more than adequate for my purpose as most of the time I work on the back-end code. But if you spend most of your time working on Ajax, scraping and other JavaScript jobs, then you need more powerful tools [...]

Recently my favorite MySQL Swiss Army Knife has to be Toad for MySQL. Not only does it have a plethora of tools and interesting features, it is free. A few days back I’d to compare database schemas of different versions of a application to see if some table fields had changed between versions. Comparing a [...]

It has been a while since I’ve used a template engine during development, the last one I used was Smarty. Now there are a plethora of template systems, but most are a rehash of Smarty. Readers may beg to differ, but Smarty gets the work done, which is all that matters. The one that I [...]

Auto scanning of selected web pages for malicious scripts

debugging http traffic using Microsoft fiddler

visualize application structure with nwire

local testing of email applications