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Over a developers time, you aquire a taste for the right tools. Some are more useful than others, and some you just can’t live without. Here are my minimum requirements for a suitable Firefox browser capable of developing and debugging todays websites:

• ColorZilla - The very handy color selector tool that sits in the statusbar.
• Download Statusbar - Downloading just isn’t the same without this gem.
• Firebug - If you don’t know what this is you are really missing out. Not just for Javascript developers, this tool can manipulate the dom allowing you to hack websites, if that’s your thing…
• HTML Validator - This validator is handy for getting your HTML up to spec.
• IE View Lite - Ever wanted to view a page in IE but couldn’t be bothered copying and pasting te URL?
• MeasureIt - A cool measuring tool for the browser.
• Web Developer - Also an essential tool, with many features for programmers.

YAHOO have just released the 2.2.0 version of their famous YUI library. In actual fact, version 2.2.0 is really 0.12.2

They’ve changed their versioning, which will be much easier to follow. They’ve also included mega amount of extra features to their package. It’s far too much to mention, you’ll have to check it out for yourself.

A new version of the Suckerfish HoverLightbox has been released.

Check it out here.

This is a call for anyone with 15 minutes spare time, who wants to try something that they’ve never done before.

Recently, I’ve created FlirtFrenzy.com, an online Speed Dating website. It’s completely free, and anonymous.

I need anyone over 18 who can, to login, give it a try, and report anything (good or bad) on that site. So far the application has been tested with Firefox and IE 6&7. Javascript and cookies must be enabled to use the site.

If there are no users online at the time you try it, then I’m sorry, hopefully there will be next time.

Go to FlirtFrenzy.com

In my never ending quest to find things people have made to save me time, a simple google search for a loading gif found this for me: http://www.ajaxload.info/

This is some seriously neat stuff. I’ll be visiting this site often.

It’s been some time since I’ve actually ’surfed’ the web aimlessly, but today I Stumbled Upon an article titled: ‘Swap Personal Details with the Information Ring.‘

This looks cool. Hope it takes off!