Kevin Henrikson

I’ve been playing with the Firebug 1.0 private beta for the last few days and it’s quite a tool. v0.4 the last release of Firebug had already combined the most popular features Venkman, Console2, and the DOM inspector. 1.0 adds a entire new set of features. JS profiling and Net request tracing similar to Tamper Data are IMHO the most powerful. Joe has been hard at work and been fising issues as quick as we find them. Firebug now has enough functionality that it could implement and examine all the tips included in my entire presentation at OSCON.

The new website Get Firebug gives you a glimpse of what is coming shortly:

• Inspect and edit HTML
• Tweak CSS to perfection
• Visualize CSS metrics
• Monitor network activity
• Debug and profile JavaScript
• Quickly find errors
• Explode the DOM
• Execute JavaScript on the fly
• Logging for JavaScript

I thought it’d have been easier. Ok it was pretty simple. Just FTP the new release over the current one. I made a backup first. I had hacked up the default theme a good bit to I had to restore my hacks. Maybe it would be easier if each new version of wordpress shipped with a versioned default theme. So default-2.0.2 or default-2.0.4, etc. This way any upgrade is as simple as copy over your files.

Wow.  Seems to be all over the place but quite shocking that Steve Irwin ‘The Croc Hunter’ has died.  It wasn’t a crock but a stingray’s 15cm barb that severed main arteries near his heart.

Steve “The Croc Hunter” Irwin. 1962 – 2006

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Just a quick post of EVDO speed.

I’ve written about Firefox Plugins before, but since then I’ve made a few more discoveries.

• Firebug (author) – Joe Hewitt author the great DOM inspector wrote what has become the #1 must have for any AJAX dev. Firebug combines the best of Console2, Venkman, and the DOM inspector into a single extension. The console also adds the ability to trace the request/response of each XHR request on the page. Set break points with a simple debugger; statement.
  

  FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

• Tamper Data – Just like Firebug has replaced Venkman, Console2, and the DOM inspector; Tamper Data is the new LiveHTTPHeaders. It provides a similar ability as the Live HTTP Headers extension but adds a much better UI for viewing each browser request. It also adds the ability to graph over time the requests made be each page you inspect. Finally it adds the ability to *tamper* with the requests/responses that it inspects. This is handy when seeing how a new web service or server reacts went sent a slightly different request.
  

  Use tamperdata to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters.

  Trace and time http response/requests.

  Security test web applications by modifying POST parameters.