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Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet or intranet.

Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet or intranet. This can include web design, web content development, client liaison, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development. However, among web professionals, "web development" usually refers to the main non-design aspects of building web sites: writing markup and coding.

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How can I make Chrome stop caching redirects?

I am working on a web application that is using redirects (for pretty URLs). I am trying to debug logic in the way the redirects are working. However Google Chrome keeps remembering the redirects and even after I change the code, redirecting the…
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Looking for HTTP debugging proxy for Mac similar to Fiddler on Windows

In previous jobs when I've worked on a Windows machine, I've used Fiddler for viewing HTTP transactions and debugging. I'm specifically looking to monitor the HTTP transactions for an ajax site I'm working on to verify that the site is doing what I…
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How to force Internet Explorer (IE) to REALLY reload the page?

When using Internet Explorer 8 to test my web application I often find it doesn't reload the page, so I don't see my changes. This has resulted in a lot of wasted time and frustration wondering why my fix "didn't work" - when in fact the browser…
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Chrome keyboard shortcut to pause script execution

Is there a keyboard shortcut in Google Chrome which will break script execution? (Equivalent to pressing the || "Pause script execution" button in the Developer Tools Scripts panel.) I'd like to use the Dev Tools to inspect an element in its…
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Use the Chrome Devtools Console Filter to hide console errors caused by extensions

I would like to remove all the ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT errors I get due to AdBlock, so I thought the Filter field would be appripriate but I can't use it to reverse filter. Basically what I want is ... | grep -v ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
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How to manually install Apache, PHP and MySQL on Windows?

How do I install Apache with PHP support and the MySQL server on Windows without using any ready-to-use packages like WAMPServer or XAMPP ?
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I can't visit websites that have “.dev” domain

I'm trying to visit websites like https://get.dev, but instead of loading website, there appears "Resolving host" message and then I'm getting "This site can’t be reached get.dev’s server IP address could not be…
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How do I turn off caching in IIS7?

I'm developing an ASP classic site under Windows 7 (form a queue ladies). The problem is IIS seems to be heavily making use of its cache for both static and dynamic content which really conflicts with my 'make a small change, alt-tab, hit ctrl-F5'…
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How to prevent prefers-reduced-motion setting from ever working in Chrome

Since Chrome version 74, prefers-reduced-motion media queries will be set with reduce value in case the user has disabled animations in controls inside Windows. I'm on Win 10 and use mostly Chrome for testing. Animations weren't working on my…
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Is it possible to see the DNS resolving query in Firefox developer tools?

Using the developer tools in Firefox one can see detailed information about requests to and responses from the webserver (HTTP header and content, timing information, status codes and so on). I wonder if there's a possibility to also see similar…
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How can I tell if a screenshot was made in IE7 or IE8?

I have a screenshot of an IE web browser. My question is, how can I tell whether it's IE 7 or IE8? I've looked on the net and all the different shots of 7 and 8 look the same.
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How to prevent Chrome from refreshing page when viewing source?

When viewing page source in Google Chrome, the browser opens a new tab and basically pastes the URL in with the view-source: prefix. This is undesirable. As a developer, I may include some diagnostic output that is only visible in the source after…
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Getting XAMPP to work with multiple version of PHP

How can I install XAMPP to work with different versions of PHP? I use XAMPP because some of the scripts are buggy when run in WAMP. I use WAMP because it supports different versions of PHP. But now I would like to streamline it down to just XAMPP…
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Filter on request type in chrome dev tools (Network tab)

In previous versions of Chrome I've had a buttom toolbar in which I could filter on different kinds of requests. It's the one shown here: I can however not see it anymore. To my knowledge, I've not hidden it but it has disappeared in an update. How…
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Access localhost on Mac OS X from Parallels machine

i need to test my web site, running on a local Mac, under several browsers in Windows. I use Windows XP, installed in Parallels Desktop. It would be great, when i will be able to access my http://localhost:3000 from Windows, sitting in virtual…
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