Last week I saw an article on Ajaxian about Zen Coding which is a way to generate html markup and css from css selectors. Something like div#Dialog>fieldset>ol>li*3>label + a hotkey will create:
Code Snippet
- <div id="Dialog">
- <fieldset>
- <ol>
- <li><label for=""></label></li>
- <li><label for=""></label></li>
- <li><label for=""></label></li>
- </ol>
- </fieldset>
- </div>
Pretty cool huh? Talk about saving a ton of typing. In its supported form, there are plugins for NetBeans, SlickEdit, Sublime, TextMate, TopStyle, UltraEdit and Aptana. Einar Egilsson was nice enough to setup a VS Plugin though that I have been using without issue for 5 or 6 days now. I would highly recommend giving it a try if your doing any frontend web development.