development tools – Brian Roy

Another day another video blog post. And I’ll say it again… however Vimeo selects the static frame… not working for me… what am I catching flies!!!

UPDATE: Well great, my first complaint with Vimeo – they totally hosed this when they encoded it… video/sound way out of sync. Sorry about that folks – this is a work in progress.

Well, good news. I’ve upgraded to Vimeo plus and I can now set the static frame (so I don’t look like I’m sneezing) and control the video size/framing. Enjoy.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2571218&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=8f3b55&fullscreen=1
Video: VMware Fusion Developer Tips and Apple after Steve Jobs from Brian Roy on Vimeo.

If you do any web development you know how hard it can be to decipher what is going on in someone else’s page you’d like to – let’s call it “emulate”. You also know how painful it can be to decipher layout issues like “why do I keep getting a scroll bar when all of my content appears within the browser window?”.

These issues are even more painful when AJAX is involved – because view source becomes useless.

Firebug is the only tool you’ll need to help you navigate those issues. I’ve only been using it for 2 months – and while I’m not a “web developer” strictly speaking (and maybe that is the point) it has become invaluable to me.