Being a developer has its ups and downs, but today, I certainly found one of the "UPs." Without going into too much detail I'll try to summarize the best I can.

I was working the a javascript/DOM problem and it was kicking my a$$ all over the place. I wound up needing a specific tool to help me trouble shoot the problem. I was certain I'd seen this tool before, and figured that it had to exist. However, after quite some time searching, I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for. Then I had a thought, (as I'm known to do sometimes), "I'm a developer, I'll just write the damn thing."
What I was looking for was a firefox extension to tell me the exact X and Y coordinates of my mouse as it traversed the screen. Finally after some conflicting information and some playing around, I had a working tool. I was "GEEKING OUT" over how simple it actually was to write and the fact that what I was looking for, didn't exist, so I created it. There's something beautiful in that.

You can get the full story and even install the thing yourself...(its for Firefox only for the uninitiated amongst you)...by clicking here.