Web developers are busy people working for many people who are in the process of setting up websites. These experts are sometimes forced to travel long distances especially if they produce good and desirable results. It is not a wonder to get a web developer who has transverse the whole country to take of development projects in other parts of the country. They are not always required to travel but there are some clients who insist on it. In such a case the web developer will have no choice. A web developer cannot go to a place without his essential tools for web development. Until recently, web developers had to carry for instance their laptops and other equipments having their essential tools.
John T. Haller, the Apache Friends, evolt.org, winPenPack.com and others came up with revolutionary ways of easing the work of web developers especially when they are needed to travel. These companies created portable programs that can be carried by the developed in a memory stick. A small memory stick of 512 megabytes can carry most of these portable applications without a problem. XAMPP: All-in-one server created by Apache fiends is a good example. This application can is surprisingly small; it has a total size of 128 megabytes and can run on most windows applications including Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and windows Vista. Amazingly, this application has most of the web developer tools for example Apache server, Ming, PHP (4 and 5), Perl, MySQL and SQLite, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System, OpenSSL, FileZilla FTP Server php MyAdmin, WEB-DAV and many other programs. This means that the web developer can be able to perform almost any function he needs to when developing the website.
There are many other programs that can be included in the portable web development kit. Editors are very important to web developers. Sometimes they find that they need to change something for the website they are developing to look better. They therefore need a variety of editors for different purposes. Nvu Portable which branded “What You See Is What You Get” is one of the most widely used editors. The portable version has a size of 10 megabytes and is used for editing HTML. It runs on all major windows including Linux. Another important tool is the notepad. There are many version of notepad but some do not have the portable version. Notepad++ is an all program editor with functions like code collapsing, auto completion, macros; syntax highlighting is portable and is widely used by web developers. The portable version is only 3 megabytes in size and can be used on many other web applications.
Web developers cannot finalize their work if they are not certain that the website developed can work on the four main browsers; Mozilla Firefox, Opera, IE6 and IE7. They therefore need the portable Firefox Portable and Opera@USB for Cross platform testing. This application is 25 megabytes in size and can be used on most windows applications. This tool kit has allowed web developers to overcome many challenges as they can work from anywhere anytime.