Web Development Helper

Web Development Helper is an IE browser extension written by Nikhil Kothari who co-authored the Microsoft Press book "ASP.NET Server Controls and Components". It includes Page Information, DOM inspector, Capture Screenshot, script debugging, script console, script class browser, HTTP logging, and ASP.NET tools.

The script console allows you to execute script snippets or load a script and you can save the script to a file.

The ASP.NET tools are the biggest difference between this and other tools like the IE Developer Toolbar or the Firebug add-in for Firefox. The ASP.NET tools only work with Web Applications running in debug mode on localhost. The ASP.NET tools allow you to Show Viewstate, Show Trace Information, View Managed Cache, or Restart Application.

Ideavine open source community for .NET

Open source community for .NET opened yesterday. Founders: James Avery and Nate Kohari. It is called Ideavine.

awesome CAPTCHA

Hey, Digg just called me an ASSWP

Ubiqity Firefox Addin from Mozilla Labs

awesome new add-in that allows users to create mashups using commands.

Make screenshots of your website in different browsers

Here's a cool way to test your website in different browsers. I read about a site called browsershots.org on an MSDN blog. It will generate screenshots for different operating systems and browsers. It also has settings for screen size, color, Javascript, Java, and Flash. It took 20 minutes to generate 20 screenshots.

Ajax style animated gifs

Here's a site where you can generate you own animated gifs used as a wait icon. It lets you choose color and style. I read about it on an MSDN blog.

This webpage knows your gender

Actually it just uses your browser history to guess. Here's the link. For me it said there was a 50-50 chance that I could be male or female. It finds pages in history with the visited CSS style, checks them against the Quantcast top 10,000 sites, applies a ratio of male to female users for each site, and then guesses your gender.