(post comments) The Web engineer's online toolbox

[izuzak]

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[tastycode]

http://www.necrohost.com. Provides a list of URLs that simulate a variety of network connectivity issues. Slow response, unresolvable dns, 404 and several other tools.

[hughesey]

Another useful site for the toolbox: http://www.viewdns.info/ - A collection of free, useful DNS tools.

[nemec]

I've found Fiddler to be invaluable for web development.

[lonelycode]

A load testing service should always be part of your toolbox, not just checking page weight, (this may be biased, I'm the founder), so would also recommend adding something like Loadzen

[woutersmet]

I got another one of the 'everyday' category: free private repository hosting!

While github is nice, it's everything but free for your private source control hosting needs. Luckily there is:

• bitbucket.org for free private git + mercurial (does anybody still use that?) hosting
• unfuddle.com for free SVN hosting

[sjparkinson]

+1 for Fiddler.

For multi browser screenshots I find https://browsershots.org/ to be brilliant.

There is also http://isitup.org for the 'monitoring' category.

[duncanbeevers]

Scriptular and Rubular for testing regular expressions in JavaScript and Ruby, respectively.

[duncanbeevers]

JSFiddle for prototyping and sharing JavaScript.

[Dreen]

+1 for jsFiddle, cant live without it
Some from me:

• http://www.lastcalc.com - good online calculator with functions etc
• http://codepad.org - online compiler/interpreter for various langs
• http://10minutemail.com - throwaway email
• http://webshell.io - web api prototyping

[dam2k]

You could try http://www.nuvolabase.com/, a OrientDB based HTTP/REST powerful database on the cloud

[ipartola]

Similar to isitup.com and PingDom, is my project http://www.pingbrigade.com.

[reuf]

1. I like http://jsbin.com/ more than http://jsfiddle.net/
   Showcase: http://jsbin.com/welcome/48741/edit
2. Reset all css to zero before doing your own: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
3. 960 grid system: http://960.gs/ - Generator: http://grids.heroku.com/

[eik3]

• https://onetimesecret.com/ - share a secret (like sending a password over an insecure channel), expires after first view
• https://www.webscript.io/ - "Webscripts are short scripts, written in Lua, that run on our servers. They can respond to HTTP requests or run as cron jobs". Free scripts expire after 7 days.
• http://char.nu/ unicode characters for copy-pasting. You can create your own favorite set.
• http://www.mailinator.com/ disposable email, you can use your own idle domains
• https://openexchangerates.org/ - exchange rates API, 1000 free requests per month (caching is your friend)

And my personal favorite app, not only for documentation:

• https://workflowy.com/

[iignatov]

There's actually a similar "live list" of web development tools. It's called The Toolbox, made by Sacha Greif. If anyone is interested, the source code is on GitHub.

[SachaG]

Thanks for mentioning The Toolbox! But I should mention its source code is just the WP source code, there's nothing special there (and it's not open source, sorry…).