Answer by James Tharpe:
In no particular order:
- A link checker – I like Xenu's Link Sleuth.
- Good Sass and CoffeeScript plugins for your IDE/build-scripts.
- A good IDE, such as Dreamweaver, WebMatrix, Eclipse, or Visual Studio.
- A good text editor, such as Notepad++.
- A tool for evaluating and improving download times, such as YSlow.
- An HTTP debugger, I'm fond of Fiddler.
- The latest versions of IE, Chrome, FireFox, and Safari.
- An automated testing tool, like Selenium.
- Version Control – Subversion and Git are pretty standard.
- Various devices (phones, tablets) for testing.
- Common web dev libraries such as jQuery, Backbone.js, Bootstrap, etc..
- Premium training and reference materials. My team subscribes to Lynda.com for example, and we're also thinking about Pluralsight.
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