Dragons in the Algorithm
Adventures in Programming
by Michael Chermside

Resources

Firefox Plugins

Here are the plugins I commonly use for Firefox:

  • Google Browser Sync - share a common browser environment across multiple computers.
  • Weave - share a common browser environment across multiple computers.
  • Flashblock - flash doesn't run until you click on it.
  • IE Tab - embed IE into Firefox tabs. Useful for sites that only work with IE.
  • CookieSafe - better tool for controlling cookie permissions.
  • FireBug - essential for web development.
  • Greasemonkey - download scripts to customize sites.
  • AdblockPlus - I only block ads from intellitxt and a few others that are terribly annoying.
    • *y.digg.com/*
    • *.kontera.com
    • *.zedo.com
    • *intellitxt*
  • FireFTP - featureful FTP client for Firefox.
  • S3Fox - utility for accessing Amazon's S3 file storage.
  • ChatZilla - an IRC client.

Software

Here are some of the software applications I often use:

Here are some other, more special purpose applications:

  • Gimp - for pixel editing of images.
  • Inkscape - for vector drawing.

IntelliJ Plugins

Here are the plugins I commonly use for IntelliJ IDEA:

  • Scala
  • MavenPlugin
  • Open containing folder in a ...
  • Mercurial Integration *or* hg4idea

Posted Thu 27 March 2008 by mcherm in articles