I love simple tools – just love ‘em. I love when smart people build easy to use, intuitive tools for the good of mankind (ok, maybe not all of mankind). I’m no web developer – no problem admitting that (hey, I’m a DB guy) – and I don’t do “Web 2.0″ (aside from collecting and reporting on all the events which come from those slick apps). So when I see great front-end products which make my life easier, I want to publicly thank folks, especially when they are kind enough to contribute their work to the open source world.

I’m writing this blog post via Deepest Sender, an easy-to-use Firefox extension which logs into our free and very powerful WordPress blog and posts my blogs all from a simple interface. I set up our WP blog and fixed up some of the look and feel in under an hour. Why? Because these powerful tools have been created with simplicity in mind – there is something to be said about the power of an easy-to-use application (keep that in mind, Web 2.0 AJAX folks!).

So thank you, WordPress. Thank you Mozilla and all the extension makers. Thanks Zoho (we love Zoho CRM). Thanks Journyx. Thank you, Trillian creators. And, of course, thank you LAMP folks. Oh boy, so many, many more.

Now, take a moment to pause and thank the hard-working developer next to you. Aren’t they a special breed? I think so.

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