Tools
Tools we Use
Purpose of this page
This page is for listings and links to tools used by JA-SIG member institution developers, deployers, and administrators. Sometimes a link directly to the tool's web presence is sufficient. Often we make links to other Wiki pages which more fully explain the role and usage of the tool in our collaborative projects or to comment about how we use the tool for other work.
Technical work
IDE
Text editor
XML / XSLT
- Stylus Studio
- XML Cooktop
- jEdit
- oXygen runs stand alone or inside of Eclipse
- XMLBuddy running inside of Eclipse
CSS
- Mozilla Firefox with Web Developer Extension
- Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer (Also allows CSS Editing/Preview and HTML Validation)
- TopStyle Lite
Online Validation Tools
- W3C CSS validation service
- W3C markup validation service
- WDG HTML Validator
- Feedvalidator.org
- Cynthia Says (accessibility)
- Bobby (accessibility)
- STG XML Validation Form
Database
Documentation production
Profiling, Performance, and Threading
Visit the Yourkit page.
Visit the VisualGC page.Â
Source Code Management
Build Tools
Related work
Much of the work surrounding uPortal is not fully technical - documentation, communication, administration. This section is for tools for the meta-work that makes possible the technical work.
Writing
- Microsoft Word
- OpenOffice.org
Presenting
- Eric Meyer's S5
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- OpenOffice.org