[slightly] Lifesaving online tools for a web developer

Everyone needs some help to make their life easier and here are some of the on-line tools we use on a regular basis. We’ll keep the list updated whenever we find (or remember) another service that could come in handy for others!

  • Free Uptime Monitoring

    This is one of the many (external) resources we rely on for monitoring our network, with its free monitoring for basic users – it can be invaluable!

    Go have a look! https://www.pingdom.com/signup/

  • tabb

    HTML Tabifier

    If you are at all anal about the presentation of your source code – or you simply need to edit someone else’s mess, this tool is invaluable. It will clean up the structure and indent the nodes where neccessary.

    Go have a look! http://tools.arantius.com/tabifier

  • sql

    SQL Beautifier

    There can be nothing more unpleasant than trying to make sense of a 1 line SQL statement with 400 joins, or if you’ve ever tried rotating a MySQL table, the code can be equally as hard to understand. Which is why I use this tool religiously to make sure the resultant SQL in the source is easy to read!

    Go have a look! http://www.dpriver.com/pp/sqlformat.htm?ref=g_wangz

  • quotes

    Remove Curly Quotes Online

    This handy on-line tool become very useful when you are using a code snippet from the internet, but WordPress (or other CMS’s) has converted all the normal double quotes to fancy ones!

    Go have a look! http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

  • Password generator

    Security is important for us, so every password we generate has to be truly unique and very complex, which is why we love the password generator from PC Tools. Go and secure your world with some complex passwords!

    Go have a look! http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/?length=8…

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