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FireFox Lover.
I love the Web Developer Extension for Firefox. I'm particularly enamored with the DOM inspector functionality (Ctrl-Shift-Y). Then you can click on an element, and a new window showing what CSS affects that element will appear. It's brilliant. Of course that's only one thing the Web Developer toolbar does. It's cookie menu renders Cookie Culler obsolete, for my needs anyway. You can also submit your pages to the W3C for validation right from the tools menu. There's several other menus that I haven't even explored yet.
I have found a few other helpful extensions:
- Firebug: Great for debugging JavaScript, as it shows a useful error, and will take you right to the violating line. You can also edit the CSS right from the browser window, and see immediate changes. It has tons of other features - this extension alone probably deserves it's own O'Reilly guide.
- Source Chart Viewer: Ever wanted to view the source of a page after the JavaScript has done it's thing? This dandy extension will show you the post-render source code. And it comes in convenient collapsible blocks.
- Colorful Tabs: This add-on will prettify your browsing by at least 25%. It's so much easier to pick out your tabs if they have different colors.
- JS View: Yet another tool for get web pages to reveal all their secrets. This extension shows external .css and .js files and allows you to view them with just one click.
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I am, in fact, a code monkey.
Remember the 'CodeMonkey' and 're: Your Brains' songs I wrote about a while ago? I was listening to John Hodgman's audio book 'The Areas of my Expertise' and the dude singing songs sounded very familiar. It's the same guy - Jonathan Coulton!
The state songs are particularly funny. Here is the Oregon state song, in it's entirety:
It's pronounced 'Oregon'.
Please pronounce our state correctly.
It's pronounced 'Oregon'.
"Oregon" from 'The Areas of my Expertise