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What’s in Your Toolkit?
After suffering through an inordinate number of “Whats in Your Wallet” commercials, I decided to share a few key components of my toolkit. No they do not involve faries, princesses, dragons or wierd looking centaur things. Anyhow, at the top of my chest of tools is:
- Fiddler: when dealing with modern applications with significant amounts of remote requests (aka AJAX) having a tool that can enumerate and expose these is oftentimes key to tell a developer why some component is failing. Some of my co-workers think it is magic, but I just call it Fiddler. It is one of the three reasons I ever open Internet Explorer these days (other two being SharePoint and our time sheets).
- m0n0wall: QA is an oft-overlooked, but crucial component of delivering solid, stable applications. m0n0wall is a BSD-based firewall/router/edge device that lets one create relatively complex networks with good front-end security. …
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