Ich habe mir erlaubt die folgenden Zeilen einfach mal so von Michael Mahemoff zu übernehmen denn ich fand das doch ganz passend – nur in der Überschrift habe ich die Wörter “Web Programmers” hinzugefügt weil ich es treffender fand:

• jQuery – A library whose elegance vastly exceeds anything else on the market to the extent it has redefined the Javascript landscape, has excellent performance, came on the scene with superb documentation.

• Firebug – The tool that increased my web programming productivity by a factor of 3.

• Web Developer Toolbar – Before Firebug, there was Web Developer Toolbar, an excellent way to inspect the page state that is still useful at times.

• The Ajax Design Pattern – Yes, JJG didn’t come up with anything new and people were doing it before, but this was a “right time, right place” case where the name immediately spawned a massive community of people sharing ideas and experiences.

• Firefox – Browser + Detailed Settings + Tabs (credit Opera) + Plugin Mechanism = developer’s best friend.

• View Source – The ability to look under the covers, responsible for rapid accumulation of knowledge in web apps.

• StackOverflow – Increasingly becoming the no-brainer search result for programming problems and a vast improvement over the cruddy SEOtastic train wrecks that went before it.

Und hier noch die fehlenden Links in der Aufzählung: jQuery, Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, The Ajax Design Pattern, Firefox Browser, View Source (Strg-U im Firefox ;), StackOverflow.