Fun programming

There are some programmer like me who code for money but there are few who just love programming. I would debate the wastage of such good programming brains for these useless programs, but i love them and I admire them. Have a look at 99 bottles of beer my favorite is this one elegantly written in perl, and have a look at this one in Java (satire).

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Developer tools for browser

Firefox developer tools: Web developer and Firebug
Internet Explorer Tools: IE Developer Toolbar

I think these are must for webapp developer, very useful in debugging. Web developer for Firefox is really Firefox version of IE Developer Toolbar. I specially like the Inspect feature for those nasty UI issues.

Multiple Profiles using firefox

Ever faced this situation, you are logged into your gmail, yahoo, orkut, hotmail etc. One of your friends came up to you and want to check his/her gmail,yahoo,orkut etc. You need to log out, I know its quite irritating. But thats where multiple profile feature of firefox come to rescue, you can use following command.

firefox -no-remote -p

create a new profile for your friend and you don't need to logout.
This is also useful when you are developing web application and need to loging as multiple users to complete one usecase. I generally update my desktop firefox shortcut with above.