Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows. Top five tools big companies have for you. (Page 1 of 2)Bootstrap, from TwitterEveryone who's worked on a Web application knows how tough it can be to get started. It's not the actual code of the app that's a pain, it's building out the HTML, the CSS and the actual presentation layout of the site you'll be hosting said Web app on that takes a lot of time. Sure, you can just post the app on a blank page with no accouterments, but at some point the people in charge are going to ask why the page and app look so boring.
And, of course, at deploy time, you'd have to build a site from scratch anyway to host the new application and its back end. Twitter obviously got sick of this problem, and constructed Bootstrap, a free Web design framework that comes with so much boilerplate Web code, you could cook a can of soup on it. Codemod, from FacebookCodemod is just one of many interesting open-source projects that have come out of Facebook. There are other language ports, which is what makes this project so interesting.
Productivity. Fiddler Web Debugger - A free web debugging tool. WCat 6.3 (x64) : Community. Overview Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) is a lightweight HTTP load generation tool primarily designed to measure the performance of a web server within a controlled environment. WCAT can simulate thousands of concurrent users making requests to a single web site or multiple web sites. The WCAT engine uses a simple script to define the set of HTTP requests to be played back to the web server.
Extensibility is provided through plug-in DLLs and a standard, simple API. Features HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 capableSupports IPv6Multithreaded SupportSupports generating stress from multiple machinesExtensible through C plug-in DLLsSupports Performance Counter integrationMeasures throughput and response timeSupports SSL requestsNTLM Authentication request supportEasily supports testing thousand of concurrent users Benefits Very light weight (low hardware requirements)Extensible to handle any aspect of the HTTP request or responseAllows remote collection of perfmon data and registry Requirements.
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