Yearly Archives: 2009
Useful applications to make life easier in web design and development
Just put up this list to share with others in the team so thought I might as well post it here since it could be useful to folks starting out in web development. Do feel free to add on to the list if there’s something useful for us to use.
Mind Mapping
XMind http://www.xmind.net/ (Thanks to @David_Shen for introducing this .. much nicer than Freemind! I use this for meeting notes, to-do lists and jotting down ideas)
Color Palette
ColorSuckr http://colorsuckr.com/
Color Palette Generator http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/
On Screen Rulers
JR Screen Ruler http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm
Pixus http://code.google.com/p/pixus/
Screen Capture
MWSnap http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
Hard Core Editing (i.e. know your markup)
Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Firefox Addons
Web Developer Toolbar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
Screengrab! http://www.screengrab.org/
User Agent Switcher https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
Firebug http://getfirebug.com/
Pagespeed http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/
FTP
Filezilla http://filezilla-project.org/
Fireftp http://fireftp.mozdev.org/
IE Tools
IE 6 and 7 Internet Explorer Toolbar http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?familyid=E59C3964-672D-4511-BB3E-2D5E1DB91038&displaylang=en
IE 8 has built-in developer toolbar
IDE
Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 (it really does its job well, have tried hard to replace it without much success)
Wireframes/Design
Adobe Fireworks CS4 (started using Fireworks since Macromedia days and its my favorite program when a mock or design is needed)
Balsamiq http://www.balsamiq.com/ (Just started using this recently to improve my pen n paper process and its working out nicely)
Great reading for design/dev ideas
Web Resources Depot http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/
Smashing Magazine http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Hope this helps you in your daily work. Happy coding!
Places I’ve worked in (and had a desk)
Walked past the old office in Chinatown yesterday and realised that over the years, I’ve had a desk in various parts of Singapore and tried to recall where they were. The list so far in chronological order
- American Express – The Concourse, Beach Road
- RBR Networks – KA Centre, 150 Kampong Ampat
- JuzPC – Kallang Place and Circular Road
- EdLabs – Chinatown (South Bridge Road)
- Societe Generale – 80 Robinson Road
- Asis-T Solutions – Choa Chu Kang and Ang Mo Kio
- Cornet Technologies – Purvis Street and Chinatown (New Bridge Road)
- VISA – Caltex (Chevron) House, 30 Raffles Place (Highlight was the Aeron chair!)
- IConnectE – Circular Road
- SPH – 1000 Toa Payoh North News Centre
- iProperty – United Square, Singapore and The Boulevard, Mid Valley City, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- bellabox Singapore – 26A Temple Street
- bellabox Australia – Level 1, 289 Flinders Lane Melbourne VIC & Unit 6, 83-87 Dover Street Cremorne VIC
Other places which I’ve had to frequent (almost felt like second office at one point!)
- KC Dat – Lok Yang Way
- Nippon Express – Alps Avenue and Toh Guan Road East
Offices I’ve visited and really liked the view/environment
- NTUC and Microsoft – One Marina Boulevard (had the pleasure of being there when building was being built)
- Google – Temasek Tower, 8 Shenton Way
- Pivotal Labs Singapore – Tras Street
Map
Michael Ong 