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We are doing lightning talks at this month’s dallas.rb meeting. I decided to give the group some choice of what I would present.

I will do a short one on “Why Firefox Makes Me Look Good” or “Better Web App Development using Firefox and a Buttload of Extensions”

I can also do one “JQuery: I Don’t Know Much, But I Know I Love You ”

And since neither of those are Ruby related, I will throw another one out there: “Tighter Abs: XML Situps Made Easy With Ruby”

I’ll let everyone decide which ones you want to hear more about.

Update

I only did the JQuery presentation and here are the slides (although they were much more interesting in person).

Because my friend Matt was so impressed with a Firefox extension I showed him, I thought I would share some of my other favorites.

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What Extensions I Am Using Right Now

• Web Developer Toolbar - Just about everything you could want to do HTML and CSS, plus I can edit AND save the CSS changes I was playing around with.
• Firebug - So much goodness. Especially debugging JavaScript and looking over AJAX requests and responses.
• View Source Chart - Makes looking at HTML source bearable.
• ColorZilla - a color picker for pulling colors off of web pages.
• HTMLValidator - because it is too easy to miss a closing tag somewhere that messes everything up.
• DummyLipsum - when you need some filler content.
• SeleniumIDE - great little utility for helping to write Selenium tests for functional testing.

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Not to mention

• Adblock - no more ads.
• Adblock Filterset.G - no more ads just got easier.
• GTDInbox - for when I think that I am Getting Things Done
• Foxmarks - because I have too many computers and too many bookmarks.

Got a favorite? I’d like to hear about it.