Developer's Roundtable Notes

Session: Developer Tools

Developer Tools

tools

 The right tools make your job easier

 

Who We Are

aaron  head3Aaron Reimann  –  Diana Nichols

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Code Editors and IDEs

Testing

compass

Services/Validation

Google Mobile Friendly – https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

Webmaster Tools – https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

Markup Validation – http://validator.w3.org/

Theme Testing – https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-check/

Browser Debugging

Firebug – http://getfirebug.com/

Chrome/Firefox –  inspect element

Is it up?

Down Right Now –  http://isitdownrightnow.com

Uptime Robot – http://uptimerobot.com

What’s My DNS? – http://whatsmydns.net

Pingdom – https://www.pingdom.com/ and http://tools.pingdom.com/

Testing with Dummy Data

Backups

backups

 

Plugin Based

BackupBuddy – https://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/

BackWPUp – https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/

Duplicator  – https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

Service Based (with a plugin)

CodeGuard – https://www.codeguard.com/

ManageWP – https://managewp.com

InfiniteWP – http://infinitewp.com/

CSS

Storage

library

Dropbox – https://www.dropbox.com/

Amazon S3 – http://aws.amazon.com/

Google Drive

Fonts

Design Resources

Free Photo Resources

Screen Sharing

Chat & IM

Development Environments

trainyard

Git / Mercurial

GIT – http://git-scm.com/

GitHub – http://github.com/

BitBucket – http://bitbucket.org/

GUI Tool

SourceTree – http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

Local Development

WAMP – http://www.wampserver.com/en/

MAMP – https://www.mamp.info/en/

Other Tools