At my company, we’ve been interviewing people for a web developer position, with particular emphasis on programming. Something I’ve noticed is a lot of developers say: “I know JavaScript.” So a simple question I devised for testing this was, “how would you debug JavaScript?” You’d be surprised how many people don’t know the answer to this.
So, if you’re a php/perl/python/ruby/asp/etc programmer who “knows” JavaScript, here’s a few tools to help with debugging. These are Firefox extensions.
View Rendered Source Chart - I can't live without this, it allows you to view the html th...Apple’s iDisk is part of the .Mac service. There’s always been a simple way to add files through the web interface (at http://www.mac.com), but Apple have recently improved it.
Once you click on an icon from your .Mac page, a window appears in which you can view your iDisk:
This allows you to:
Navigate folders in a similar way to Finder
Create and remove folders
Upload and delete filesMost of this makes use of Ajax and clever DOM magic, rather than the simple web interface they used before or Flash. It actually feels a little bit like a Flash interface, and if you look at t…