EagleRidge Technologies' Favorite Links -- Programming and Web Design

Programming and Web Design

Design || Web Site Management
Microsoft Access & SQL Server || Active Server Pages
Cold Fusion || Cool Site Services  
E-Commerce || Flash || HTML || CSS || Java and JSP|| 
JavaScript || Google Maps API || Lua || Parrot
Perl || PHP/MySQL || Python || Ruby || LSL - Second Life || VBScript
Wireless Markup Language ((WML)/WAP  || Zope || Security || Internet and Web Standards

• Internet and Web Standards
  
  • NORMOS -- Internet Engineering Standards Repository
    
  • W3.org -- W3C Web standards organization
  • IETF.org -- Internet Engineering Task Force (Internet standards)
  • Internet Mail Consortium -- mail standards
  • Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -- domain name services, IP address services, protocol number assignment
  • ICANN.org -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  • IEEE -- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • ISO -- International Organization for Standardization
  • RIPE -- Réseaux IP Européens (European IP networks group)
  • P3P compact privacy policy information
  • About Bobby approval - accessible.org
  • SAMI tutorial from Microsoft - Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) - Captioning Technologies
  • SMIL code samples from RealNetworks
  • QuickTime Guide from Apple
  • Flash Programming Guide from Adobe
  • How to Support Assistive Technologies usinhg Java - from Sun
• Registrars
  
• EagleRidgeStore.com list of web domain name registrars
• CSCA - Common Short Code Administration - administers and registers short codes used for SMS message addressing
  
• Programming / Computer Science
  
  • The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming on the Web
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition -- online textbook by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman.
  • Mathematics for Computer Science -- Online Linear Algebra and Applications textbook
  • ArsDigita University -- free post-graduate computer science education.
  • Comparison of several languages including Ruby, C++, Java, Perl 5, Smalltalk-80, Python, CLOS, and Objective-C
  • Another comparison of several languages - includes BETA, C#, C++, C-Talk, Eiffel, Java, ObjPascal, Ruby, Sather, and Smalltalk.
    
• Open Source

• SourceForge.net -- Largest Open Source software development website
• Freshmeat.net
• Slashdot.org
• Open Source Developer Network
• OpenSource.org -- "is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition;" Open Source licenses listed here.
• CTags -- generates listing ("tag") file of language elements used in a program. Supports many different languages.
• Gnu
• Apache.org - popular web server
• JBoss - popular Java application server
• Tomcat - popular Java servlet container
• The Jakarta Project - makers of Tomcat, Gump, and many other Open Source software
• Open Clip Art Library - free clip art
   

• Design
  
  • What is Good Design?: short column by Mary Morris.     http://www.sun.com/950801/columns/MaryMorris.col9508.html
  • High-Level Design Checklist -- http://www.construx.com/chk06.htm. This is just one of the Software Development Checklists available at: http://www.construx.com/chk.htm See also their Software Development Sample Documents at http://www.construx.com/doc.htm, and their Software Project Survival Guide page at http://www.construx.com/survivalguide/home.htm.
    
  • TreeMaps -- visual representation of hierarchical structures, pioneered at the Univ. of Maryland, College Park. See TreeMaps 3 or a ComputerWorld article, TreeMaps Bloom, or a short tutorial (or this one). Try the free disk and file viewer that uses treemaps, SequoiaView. Try thefree Java treemap library.
  • The 5K Contest site -- Sometimes annual design contests for websites 5k or less.
  • The most commonly installed fonts - handy list

• Web Site Management
  
  • Search Engine Watch -- excellent source of search engine info and news!
  • Net Mechanic -- "Power tools for your website."  HTML code help, GIF optimization, search engine submission and tools, more! CNET Editor's Choice award-winning site.
  • Sam Spade Tools -- free page with lots of handy tools for webmasters and web support personnel: Tracert, Whois, reverse DNS, view HTML of a page without loading it (very handy for when doing support!), much more... 
  • Dyndns.org -- DNS management services. Includes free dynamic DNS services for up to 5 hostnames.
  • Site Map Generator and other tools at AuditMyPC.com
  • Whois.sc - excellent Whois tools
  • Whois search at Internic

• Microsoft Access and SQL Server  
  • A3
  • Tony's Main Microsoft Access Page
  • Microsoft Access Web Ring
  • Experts-Exchange Access help, information
  • Access Developer's Site at ATTAC
  • Trisha's Microsoft Access Page--excellent!
  • Directory of Developers at Iverson Software
  • Swynk.com -- "largest independent resource for Microsoft-related BackOfficeTM and Windows DNA Server technologies. Here you'll find the very latest information on Windows XP / 2000 / NT, SQL, SMS, and Exchange Servers."
  • Woody's Access Watch -- good source of Access news and info
  • Access and PHP --  at http://www.php.net/FAQ.php#4.2
  • Access to MySQL Conversion
  • MyAccess -- addin to let you manage MySQL databases from MS Access

   

• Active Server Pages (ASP)  

   

• Cool Site Services
  • Coming soon.
• Cold Fusion  
  • Allaire's Cold Fusion home page
  • Allaire's Cold Fusion Developer's Center
  • Builder.com CF Scripting Techniques
  • Builder.com CF Application Design
  • Builder.com Cold Fusion Tips
  • Builder.com Install and Configure CF Server
  • CF Advisor Online
  • CFM Central
  • CF Scripts
  • CF Tutorials
  • Webmonkey Cold Fusion Tutorial
  • Download Cold Fusion at Download.com

   

• HTML  
  • Advanced HTML by Example
  • BareBones Guide to HTML
  • Client-side Image Maps - better for accessibility
  • CNet's HTML for Beginners
  • Design Resources
  • Frames Help
  • HTML Compendium
  • HTML Goodies -- a great site!
  • HTML Helpers
  • HTML Station
  • HTML Tidy--This is a wonderful free utility that cleans up your HTML. We use this one often! See its new home at Sourceforge.
  • HTML validator
  • HTML Writers' Guild
  • Index Dot HTML
  • Simple Builder
  • The Art of Frames
  • Web Monkey
  • W3 HTML -- THE source for HTML 4.01 specs
  • W3 XHTML -- the latest HTML-meets-XML version!
  • Yahoo's list of HTML tutorials

   

• CSS  
  • W3 CSS standards site, W3 CSS validator
  • Holy CSS, Zeldman! - excellent CSS resource list
  • WestCiv’s CSS Guide — great CSS tutorial site, start here
  • CSS Zen Garden - beautiful site with many example stylesheets; CSS resource list
  • Mezzoblue CSS Cribsheet - on Dave Shea's excellent site
  • more on CSS Browser Support
    • MacEdition - CSS3 Selector Support
    • MacEdition - CSS2 Support
    • MacEdition - CSS2 Support in Mac-only Browsers
    • Westciv.com CSS1 & CSS2 browser support
  • CSS Filters & Hacks
    • http://www.albin.net/CSS/
    • http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/
    • Dither.com - excellent info on CSS filters and Javascript too
    • http://diveintomark.org/safari/csshacks/
    • http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/bonus/trick-hide.html
    • http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHacks
    • http://www.info.com.ph/~etan/w3pantheon/style/csshub.html
    • http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/
    • http://w3development.de/css/hide_css_from_browsers/
  • http://www.doxdesk.com/personal/posts.html
  • http://css.nu/pointers/liam-tip.html
  • http://www.quirksmode.org/css/
  • http://www.saila.com/attic/sandbox/
  • http://www.sam-i-am.com/work/css/index.html
  • http://www.phoenity.com/newtedge/
  • http://wellstyled.com/css-underscore-hack.html
  • The most commonly installed fonts - handy list
  • CSS Style Guide - from codestyle.org

• Flash
  • Flash Reference Guides at Informit

• Java and JSP  
• Java home page at Sun
• DevShed JSP tutorials and resources
• Server-side Java Resources at DevShed
• JBoss - popular Java application server
• Tomcat - popular Java servlet container
• The Jakarta Project - makers of Tomcat, Gump, and many other Open Source software
• Java Developer's Journal
• Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE(tm) Platform
• Java Blueprints (at Sun)
• J2EE (at Sun)
• JARS - "the #1 Java review service"
• JavaServer Pages at Sun

• JavaScript
  • The JavaScript Source at Internet.com--lots of scripts
  • JavaScript Tutorials at PageResource
  • JavaScript Source Master List
  • Javascripts -- lots of scripts
  • Andy's Introductory JavaScript Tutorials
  • Ask the JavaScript Pro
  • WebCoder.com -- JavaScript and DHTML scripts and info
  • Website Abstraction -- tutorials
  • JavaScript Repository at Xiio
  • JavaScript.com - tutorials, scripts, more.
  • IDM's JavaScript FAQ
  • irt.org
  • Beginner's Guide to JavaScript -- beginner's tutorial
  • Danny Goodman's JavaScript Pages
  • DesignsRUs
  • Doc JavaScript -- many tutorials, tips
  • Dread's Programming
  • Evil Walrus Scripting Center -- scripts for PHP, MySQL, Perl, JavaScript, C++...
  • Got JavaScript? -- help and resources.
  • HotSyte -- JavaScript tips, tricks, code, tutorials...
  • HTMLjive -- HTML editor written in Javascript
  • JavaScript Connection
  • Javascript Depot
  • JavaScript Gate
  • Netscape JavaScript Guide
  • JavaScript Planet
  • JavaScript Search
  • Javascript Steals Your autoexec.bat??
  • Javascript Tip of the Day at WebReference
  • JavaScript World -- lots of scripts
  • Javascript: Simple Little Things To Add To Your Pages
  • JavaScripts Galore
  • JavaWorld's JavaScript column by Gordon McComb"
  • JM Web JavaScript collection
  • Menufactory.com -- collapsible JavaScript navigation menus
  • Nic's JavaScript Page -- with examples
  • Roller -- JavaScript coder for rollover and mouseclick effects.
  • Rolling Scrolling Status Surfers - society for the promotion of scrolling status bar scripts :)
  • Roloo's Javoo -- code to help with Javascript effects
  • Builder.com JavaScript area -- excellent!
  • News -- livesoftware.javascript.developer
  • News -- livesoftware.javascript.examples
  • Usenet -- comp.lang.javascript

   

• Google Maps API
  • Google Maps API Wiki - http://mapki.com/wiki/Main_Page, very useful
  • Google Maps API home - http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/index.html
  • GMapEZ toolkit - JavaScript library- http://bluweb.com/us/chouser/gmapez/
  • GMapsPHP Google Maps PHP Library (uses GMapEZ toolkit) - http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/GMapsPHP
• Linden Scripting Language (LSL)in Second Life
  • Programmer's Perpective on LSL in Dr. Dobb's
  • "Avimator is an easy-to-use, open source tool for creating and editing avatar animations for Second Life. It is a free alternative to Poser and Maya, and it runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux."
  • "QAvimator is a Qt port of Vince Invincible's avimator, a bvh animation editor, created for use in the 3D metaverse Second Life."
  • LSL API reference at lslwiki.com
• Lua
  • Lua home page
  - main site for all things Lua.
  • Lua wiki
• Parrot - "Parrot is the new interpreter being designed from scratch to support the upcoming Perl6 language. It is being designed as a standalone virtual machine that can be used to execute bytecode compiled dynamic languages such as Perl6, but also Perl5. Ideally, Parrot can be used to support other dynamic, bytecode-compiled languages such as Python, Ruby and Tcl."
  • Parrot homepage
   
• Perl, Tk...
• PHP/MySQL