Inside.NET

1. Firebug 1.05 - With this helpful little add-on, you can tweak and monitor CSS, inspect and edit HTML, debug, visualize CSS metrics, monitor your network and also make changes in JavaScript live in any web page. Install Now

2. Google Global Firefox Extension - As results for Google differ from one country to another, results become limited. The end to this problem is Google Global. Install Now

3. Google Webmaster Tools External links ++ - With Google Webmaster Tools External links ++ you can check the PR of the pages linking to you and the anchor text used on the link. This Greasemonkey script determines PR for the link through an XML HTTP request and adding it in front of the link. You need to have Google Webmaster Central Account and the site added and verified in it. Install Now

4. LinkChecker 0.6.1 - With LinkChecker, you can check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of bad links that provide no context and add LinkChecker to your arsenal of web development tools today. Install Now5. RankQuest SEO Toolbar 3.9.1 - RankQuest SEO(Search Engine Optimization) Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Alexa Rank and Page Rank provided by Alexa and Google respectively ensures the popularity of the site. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations. available in Japanese, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, German, Dutch, French and Chinese languages. Install Now

6. SearchStatus 1.21 - Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and other SEO tools. In simple words, you can check how any website, no matter where in the world, is performing. Install Now7. SEOpen 0.8 - Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization. Including google backlinks, yahoo backlinks, PageRank check, http header viewer, and more. Install Now

8. Server spy 0.1.2 - Server Spy indicates what brand of HTTP server (eg. Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited sites. When a tab is selected, the corresponding server name is shown on the right-hand side of the browser's status bar.Install Now

9. Web Developer extension - The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Install Now

10. X-Ray 0.8.1 - With X-Ray 0.8.1, without viewing the sourcecode, you can see the tags on a page. One installed the X-Ray command is available by right-clicking as well as in the Tools menu. When applied to a page it can help you see how the document was constructed without having to go back and forth between the sourcecode and the page in your browser. Is that list made of li, dd or p elements? Is that an h3 tag or just some bolded text? X-Ray shows you what's beneath the surface of the page . Install Now

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 Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. They conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Their best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.

Rules for High Performance Web Sites

1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires Header
4. Gzip Components
5. Put CSS at the Top
6. Move Scripts to the Bottom
7. Avoid CSS Expressions
8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
9. Reduce DNS Lookups
10. Minify JavaScript
11. Avoid Redirects
12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
13. Configure ETags

Also there is a tool from yahoo to analyize website performance called YSlow. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you

• Performance report card
• HTTP/HTML summary
• List of components in the page
• Tools including JSLint

An Arabic  search engine has been launched. it is called TayaIT.
this search engine targets the Arabic region. I know we are not only company that offer this service in the region but our search has many features doesn't exist in any other search engine.As you all know Arabic is one of the most complex languages which needs different search options than English.With Taya, efforts had been made to introduce a valuable search engine that can meet different needs for the Arabic users.

We know the most applications may consist of  3-tiers, Data access ,Bussiness logic and Interface layer. we could use generators to produce a DAL and BLL like code smith, mygeneration, LLBL Gen  and ...etc.

These are some of frameworks :

 1. Spring.NET - Spring.NET is an open source application framework that makes building  enterprise .NET applications easier. Providing components based on proven design patterns that can be integrated into all tiers of your application architecture, Spring helps increase development productivity and improve application quality and performance.

2. nHibernate - NHibernate is a .NET based object persistence library for relational databases. It is a widely used OR persistant tool these days. It is inspired by Java hibernate.

3. .netTiers - .netTiers is a set of open source code generation templates that simplify the tasks of creating customized Application Tiers.solidifies the .netTiers application framework presence in both, the ORM and Application Generation Markets.  With many advanced new features, and already a presence for supporting the up and coming .Net Framework 3.0.

4. MyGeneration's doodAds - doodAds is an elegant .NET architecture available in C# and VB.NET and capable of supporting any .NET managed data provider. Currently dOOdads are available for Microsoft SQL, Oracle, Firebird, Access, PostgreSQL, VistaDB, SQLite, and MySQL . You can use MyGeneration Code Generator to generate DAL classes easily for DoodAds. (that i used)

5. IBatis.NET - The iBATIS Data Mapper framework makes it easier to use a database with Java and .NET applications. iBATIS couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements using a XML descriptor. Simple and elegant.

6. EasyObjects.NET - EasyObjects.NET is an object relational mapper (ORM) architecture based on a combination of the popular MyGeneration dOOdads architecture and the Microsoft Enterprise Library.

7. AdapDev.NET - Adapdev.NET is a robust enterprise framework that supplements the MS.NET framework. It's the foundation of Codus (OR Code generator) and Zanebug (A unit testing framework) providing the underlying code generation and unit testing engines.

8. Gentle.NET - Gentle.NET is an RDBMS independent object persistence framework. It features automatic SQL generation and object construction, an SQL factory for creating custom queries, DataView construction helpers, excellent performance and reasonably complete docs.

9.EntitySpaces - the EntitySpaces architecture is there for you. EntitySpaces is provider independent, which means that you can run the same binary code against any of the supported databases. EntitySpaces is available in both C# and VB.NET. EntitySpaces uses no reflection, no xml files, and sports a tiny foot print of less than 200k. Pound for pound, EntitySpaces is one tough .NET architecture. and ES 2007 has many new features like LinQ support.(not free)

10.Subsonic - A Super High-fidelity Batman Utility Belt. SubSonic works up your DAL for you, throws in some much-needed utility functions, and generally speeds along your dev cycle. (it is a robust and powerful tools)

useful links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_object-relational_mapping_software

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2004/10/09/240225.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_modeling

Pingdom is a free tool that test web pages load time which  included
all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes).
It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.
it shows the load time of object visually with time bars.
it is also easy to use so u don't need to download any plug ins
like Firebug that you have to use only on Firefox.

Apple has released The public beta Safari 3 for windows from two week ago.
Safari used Webkit which is an open source web browser engine.
Apple claims that safari is 2 times faster than IE and 1.6 times faster than Firefox for
html, javascript and loading performance.
 

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann  Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

Browsershots is free but pretty slow so i recommend to set maximum wait to 4 hours.