Web Dev Ireland

I came into work this morning and wanted to read something that I had spotted last night and had put into my del.icio.us page (as I have done on countless occasions before).
I tried to logon and got this message.

Delicious is down for planned maintenance. We’re doing some database rearranging so we can release new features next week. We expect to be down from Midnight till 4am (Pacific) and will be posting updates on our blog.

I miss del.icio.us

I find it hard to believe that such a huge service should ever have to close down to do some upgrades, but that is the way of things with a free service.

Does anyone else have an free online service they could not live without?

The Extend Firefox competition has being going on for a while now and today they announced the winners of the competition. I am an avid firefox extension junkie (15 extensions and counting!) and use quite a few of the awarded extensions.

Cool prizes such as the Alienware Aurora 7500 were on offer to budding entrants
My favourites which I always use are;

Sage by Peter Andrews, which is an RSS reader.
Web Developer by Chris Pedrick, an absolute gem if you are in web development.
Forecast Fox by Aaron Sarna, Keeps me upto date with live weather reports all day (while I sit indoors)

New ones that I have just discovered are ;

Separe by Massimo Mangoni, which won most useful (its a tab seperator).
Reveal by Michael Wu, which won “Best Extension Overall” creates thumbnails of your tabs so you can see which one you want really cool, but a bit of a memory hog

If you use firefox but have not tried any of the extensions I recommend that you head over to Firefox extensions page and browse around. Just a word of warning you may become an extension junkie like me!