Top Web Developer Tools of 2011
Joe Brockmeier lists this year’s Top Web Developer Tools, including well known tools like jQuery and Chrome’s Developer Tools and also highlights some off-the-beaten-path tools that made big impacts in 2011. As with all our year end posts, please let us know if you have anything to add.
From the comments:
J S – I’m sticking with Flash Flex AIR. Once you can do what Flash can do in the libraries mentioned above, and joyfully, skinfully. I’ll use them professionally, till then these are just side projects and hobbies to me.
We need a thorough HTML5/JS/CSS3 framework that can match Flex, or at least close to what it can provide would be good enough.”
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