Kick-Start Your Web Application With These Tools

Building great web applications doesn’t have to be a long and slow process. In fact, people have been practicing ‘rapid development‘ for quite a while. But if you’re looking to get your web application off to a flying start, you really should consider using these great tools. They can help you get a basic shell for you application quickly and efficiently.

This isn’t by any means a complete list, but there might be a few things here that you’ve not used before.

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Test Sites in Any Platform – Live!

I recently wrote a post mentioning Browsershots – a service which allows you to request screenshots of your site in different browsers/operating systems.

While that’s all well and good, how about the ability to test things live? Like AJAX, Javascript and all that other fun magic. Well, now there’s a service that lets you do all that!

CrossBrowserTesting‘, a service which lets you request VPN time on a wide range of different browsers and operating systems.

The choice is quite amazing, and the service seems pretty stable!

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Testing Designs – Cross Platform

I’m a huge Apple guy, and I love Firefox 3.0 on the Mac.

But, due to the work I do, I find that I’m always having to fire up the PC in the office to test my CSS is working ok in IE. There’s even issues with Firefox on different platforms too (mainly due to font-rendering).

So, wouldn’t it be nice if there was somewhere you could just type in your URL and see screenshots of a load of different browsers?

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