May 11th in Code, Debugging, No License, Web based by Codrut Nistor .

GTmetrix

Remember Load Impact? It doesn’t really matter if you don’t, but if you do, you can forget about it! The reason is today’s topic, another free Web-based speed analyzer for your site. As you probably know, it’s official – Google is taking speed into account when awarding search rankings, so… you must know where’s your site spinning, right?

GTMetrix uses two analyzing engines from the big ones in the industry, namely Google Page Speed and Yahoo YSlow, providing enough information to [...]

April 21st in Debugging, No License by Codrut Nistor .

Load Impact

As far as I can remember, we never talked about Load Impact and, to be honest, I can’t recall ever seeing this excellent resource… until now. Since I happened to bump into such a useful tool, I thought you also have to know a few things about it, because every site owner or Web developer working on a site dream about huge amounts of traffic, but I am also sure they have nightmares about too much of it!

More than [...]

June 17th in CSS, Debugging, License free by Codrut Nistor .

CSS Formatter and Optimiser

No matter how good a programmer may be, his code will always allow a little bit of tweaking, and if we talk about CSS, things should be pretty clear – since CSS is not C/C++, a lot of people without any special programming skills can easily use it. The result? Code that works, but can be heavily optimized!

CSS Formatter and Optimiser is a tool based on csstidy, and its purpose is to turn your frog-like code into a beautiful princess. [...]

June 15th in BSD License, Debugging by Codrut Nistor .

Firebug

Back in the days when I was a kid, it was nothing out of ordinary to stare with my friends at some firebugs for hours. While the firebug, or “Pyrrhocoris apterus,” for the scientists, is one ubiquitous insect that eats seeds from lime trees and mallows, there’s also one firebug that’s eating code for breakfast… and the same goes for his other meals!

Firebug allows developers to forget about having to use a bunch of different tools for fine tuning [...]