I was wondering what keyboard shortcuts developers use within their favourite IDE and which are absolutely inevitable. Do you just use the pre-defined ones or do you rather prefer configuring your own shortcuts independetly of the IDE? Which shortcuts increase your productivity and why? Here is a list of our favourites… (more…)

Finally we did it and bought a new domain for this blog. Now its easier to remember, just www.webdevbros.net.

Sorry guys but our blog has been down for the past weeks and we have lost all the data. The reason for this loss is that our hoster just removed the account without giving any notice. We have to admit that it was a free webhosting (http://bcurrant.com/) and you should never rely on them but at least we should have been informed about the deletion. Damn GUYS!! However, thanks to google’s caching we could recover most of the articles and bring them back to life again. Bloggerism at web dev bros will continue and the old articles will be available within the next days… dont forget to update your RSS readers ;)

Today I’ve found a nice site which brings together a lot of API’s into one place. A quick look into CSS, Javascript, XSL, Ruby, Hibernate, Oracle, MySQL, etc. normally requires a set of bookmarks on you machine. This tool has them all in one place! Check www.gotapi.com . What I really like is the autocomplete search feature and the organisation of the tabs. Thus it can be fully customized to your everyday development. Great idea!

Unfortunately there is no reference of any Microsoft technology (which is really a pain for me and i am sure for others as well) or Selfhtml which is a nice web reference for all german developers.

Today I was again using some icons of the probably best icon set out there so I thought to recommend it here as well. The famfamfam.com silk icons consist of 1000!! icons for all your needs (files, flags, RSS, hardware, community, multimedia,…) within application development and make your apps look really professional. The nice thing is that they’re released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License and therefore are completely free. (more…)

When you implement a new feature somewhere, when you change just some bits of the code, when you fix a bug, when you just change a common text in an app.. What do you do afterwards? Do you really check the result or do you trust yourself that it works 100%. It is an interesting thing to talk about… (more…)