Ask HN: Must-have software/resources for Frontend Dev/Design?

[aayush]

Hello people of HN!

What would you recommend as essential software, services, reference or resources for a Frontend Development and Design system?

P.S If I've duplicated an existing thread, apologies.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

[primaryobjects]

Visual Studio 2012

Notepad++

Web Server (IIS, Apache, Node, etc)

Photoshop/Paint.NET

Chrome

Firefox

Internet Explorer

Safari

CDN links for jQuery http://jquery.com/download

CDN links for jQuery UI http://jqueryui.com (bottom of page)

jQuery Block UI http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block (modal popups)

Twitter Bootstrap http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap (base css)

Open Internet connection

[aayush]

Thanks! Great start there.

[rman666]

1. A good text editor

2. A sense of humor