Two Handy Tools: Firebug & Poster
Firebug and Poster are two very useful tools for web development. Both are Firefox plug-ins. (Gotta love open source.)
Poster is a simple http client that enabled me to test the RESTful web services before building the UI. This is a great programming model. Encapsulated, reusable services…but so much easier to build and use than the full blown, bulky web services we usually think of. No WSDL, no SOAP messages, etc.
Firebug monitors the browser. With it, I can watch all of the individual http calls when the application page loads. Very useful when debugging. But, Firebug does so much more. Want to watch the javascript code execute? Want to step through the javascript execution and set break points?
