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Hi, my name is Mark Finkle. I spend a lot of time thinking about engineering productivity and execution.  I used to spend my time working on the perfect ways to architect, design, and code, but have long since gave that up and embraced the software development world for what it is: imperfect.

XUL Explorer is a lightweight XUL IDE, built as a XULRunner application that provides an easy way to experiment with XUL. It’s a simple editor that can preview XUL inline or in a separate popup window. It has a list of code snippets (small fragments of XUL or JavaScript) that can be quickly inserted into the editor. The XUL can be load and saved to files. A XUL validator and the JavaScript Error Console is available to help debug problems. The help menu is hooked to XUL information on MDC. There is even a simple keyword help lookup for XUL elements.