"grunt-perfbudget is a Grunt.js task for enforcing a performance budget (more on performance budgets). It uses the wonderful webpagetest.org and the WebPagetest API Wrapper for NodeJS created by Marcel Duran.

grunt-perfbudget uses either a public or private instance of WebPagetest to perform tests on a specified URL. It compares test results to budgets you specify. If the budget is met, the tasks successfully completes. If it the page exceeds your performance budgets, the task fails and informs you why."

"Give it a JSON or JS seed file and it will serve it through REST routes.

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"Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a number of active (but hopefully non-disruptive) security checks. The final report generated by the tool is meant to serve as a foundation for professional web application security assessments.

Key features:

High speed: pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint - easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets. Ease of use: heuristics to support a variety of quirky web frameworks and mixed-technology sites, with automatic learning capabilities, on-the-fly wordlist creation, and form autocompletion. Cutting-edge security logic: high quality, low false positive, differential security checks, capable of spotting a range of subtle flaws, including blind injection vectors. The tool is believed to support Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments."

"Catches mail and serves it through a dream.

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. Run mailcatcher, set your favourite app to deliver to smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 instead of your default SMTP server, then check out http://127.0.0.1:1080 to see the mail that's arrived so far."

"phpspec is a development tool, designed to help you achieve clean and working PHP code by using a technique derived from test-first development called (spec) behaviour driven development, or SpecBDD.

The technique consists of describing the next object behaviour (spec) you are about to implement, using a tool like phpspec, then writing just enough code to quickly satisfy that specification and finally stopping to refactor the last increment, allowing the emergent design to guide the direction. This is done in small iterative steps."

"virtPHP is a tool for creating and managing multiple isolated PHP environments on a single machine. It's like Python's virtualenv, but for PHP.

virtPHP creates isolated environments so that you may run any number of PHP development projects, all using different versions of PEAR packages and different PECL extensions. You may even specify a different version of PHP, if your system has various installations of PHP.

To install multiple versions of PHP, we suggest taking a look at the phpenv and php-build projects and using virtPHP with them, to manage multiple virtual PHP environments.

Note: virtPHP is currently only targeted to command line php (php-cli) for *nix based systems."

"Sitespeed.io is an open source tool that helps you analyze your website speed and performance based on performance best practices and metrics. It collects data from multiple pages on your website, analyze the pages using the rules and output the result as HTML or JUnit XML.

You can analyze one site, analyze & compare multiple sites or let it run in you CI tool to make sure that your site is always built the best way for speed."