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Online Resume Builder

Today morning I found a cool tool that allows you build your resume online quickly and export it in a PDF format. Its called Jobspice and you can find it on its website. The tool is really simple and quick, with cool resume styles. I am really looking at this tool for my next resume update 🙂

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PHP Softwares, Utilities, libraries for web developers

This post is about some free software, libraries, packages that we as a PHP developers require regularly. This can be useful list to explore to someone who is new to PHP development.

Code Editors/IDEs

  1. PHP Eclipse or PDT IDE for PHP Coding
  2. Notepad++ enhanced version of windows notepad with many cool features
  3. NetBeans IDE with support for PHP, JAVA, Ruby

Code Libraries, Frameworks

  1. Zend – MVC Framework for development of Web Apps in PHP
  2. CakePHP – another MVC framework for PHP web apps
  3. PEAR – A repository of resuable PHP classes & components
  4. jQuery, UI & plugins– javascript framework for development of stylish javascript intensive web 2.0 apps

Databases

  1. MYSQL
  2. Postgre SQL

Software & Packages

  1. XAMPP– A complete ready to install package (PHP, APACHE, MYSQL) for php developers which includes all tools required for PHP development
  2. WAMP – Similar to XAMP
  3. FileZilla – Free FTP Client

Diagramming Tools

  1. yEd Graph Editor simple and powerful tool to draw diagrams, flows, charts
  2. StarUML tool for drawing UML diagrams
  3. Visual Paradigm for drawing ER Diagrams, UML

Project Management & Collaboration

  1. Gantt Project
  2. Serena OpenProj
  3. SVN – Source Code Management tool
  4. Tortise SVN – free svn client to checkout/checkin your files in SVN
  5. Mantis BT for bug tracking and resoltution
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Mac Safari Screenshots

BrowsrCamp provides a free service to test your website layouts/pages on a Mac Safari Browser. This tool is nice to test your layouts on Mac Safari even if you don’t have one.

Usage is simple.

1. Goto BrowsrCamp and enter the URL of the page you want to test

2. Select the resolution, you want to test in your page

3. Select quality of the screenshot image.

4. Hit enter, you will get a nice screenshot of your webpage about how it will look in Mac Safari.

5. Click on thumbnail image generated to view the actual size image.

The free service offers only testing on Mac Safari, paid service offers a wide range of browsers.