State of Developer Tools (WDS09)

State of Developer Tools

Ben GalbraithFormer Director of Developer Tools, MozillaDirector of Developer Relations, Palm

Huge Deployment

Huge Developer Base

No Vendor Control

Microsoft Internetpowered by Microsoft Windows Advanced Frickin’ Server

>90%

More choices make us less happy.

‒ Barry Schwartz“The Paradox of Choice”

Use FB wall, msgs, etc. as an example

Twitter as the opposite

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RailsASP.NETGrailsStrutsStruts 2JSFTapestryDjangoGrokPylonsTurboGearsweb2pyZopeGWTSpringEchoWebWorkWicketRIFEFlexMerbRamazeCatalystGantryJiftyCGI::AppWebGUI

OraclePostgreSQLMySQLSQL ServerCassandraBigTableHypertableCouchDBMongoDBDynamo

ActiveRecordHibernateSQLEJB 3LINQiBATISADO.NET

Chrome’s V8 Safari’s SquirrelFish Extreme Firefox’s TraceMonkey Opera's Carakan

1.0Beta Beta

Alpha

FirebugBy Joe Hewitt

Yes, that Joe Hewitt

Console

HTML Inspector

Style Inspector

Layout Inspector

Script Debugging

Script Profiler

Object Inspector

Network Profiler

Network Profiler

Network Profiler

Firebug Plug-insYSlow, FirePHP, Pixel Perfect, Firebug Code Coverage, FireUnit

V8 JSON Debugging Protocol

“Scope” Debugging Protocol

“Crossfire” Debugging Protocol

Google Group: WebDebugProtocol

dynaTrace

Internet Explorer 8Developer Tools

HTML Inspector

Miscellaneous Goodies

Miscellaneous Goodies

SafariDeveloper Tools

HTML Inspector

Network Profiler

Network Profiler

Database Inspector

Miscellaneous Goodies

ChromeDeveloper Tools

Safari-ish Tools

Heap Explorer

Task Manager

Task Manager

Script Debugger

Opera “Dragonfly”Developer Tools

HTML Inspector

Firebug Working Group

Atul Varma’s Memory Profiler:

The Breakdown of Modern Web Development

Cappuccino

SproutCore

YUI CSS Grid Builder

Microsoft SuperPreview

Adobe BrowserLab

Style Master Free CSS Tools

Rule, Grid, and CrosshairBy Allen Jardine

TypeKit

User Interface

BackgroundThread

2X

Browser

1

User Interface

BackgroundThread

2X

Browser

1

Web Workers

Fluid MozillaPrism

Adobe AIR Appcelerator Titanium

PhoneGap Palm webOS

SpriteMeBy Steve Souders

Browserscope

CuzillionBy Steve Souders

Open Web Tools Directory

Open Web Tools Directory

State of Developer Tools

Ben GalbraithTwitter: [email protected]