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 Web Development Sites |
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| Developer.com | Resources for webmasters, covering both proprietary and open source platforms - with many tutorials - on many web development subjects - for example this on using Subversion. |
| The Developer's Shed | News, tools, resource links on all aspects of web development. Now features advanced open-source web development resources, user interaction tools and sample-code in action. |
| zeroweb.com | "Free online resource for webmasters. template downloads, tools, and services. |
| Devx.com | Many resources in aid of application development. |
| Builder.com | Web developers' site with tips, reviews, etc. |
| SitePoint.com | Another web developers' site with tips, reviews, etc. |
| W3Schools.com | "HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XHTML, ASP, tutorials with lots of working examples and source code." |
| 4webhelp | "Site with resources for the budding webmaster" |
| Search.Internet.com | "The Search Engine for Internet Professionals" |
| Internet.com | Central repository for many useful Internet/web development sites |
| Web Developer's Journal | Another Web developers site with articles, tips, reviews, etc. For example, Wacky HTML |
| Intranet Design Magazine | Intranet developers site with FAQs, articles, etc. |
| Web Developer | Resources for webmasters or webmaster wannabes |
| reallybig.com | "Free clipart, CGI, counters, fonts, html, java, animation, backgrounds, icons, wysiwyg editors, buttons, photographs, site promotion" |
| Blackstump Web Development | Links to many web building resources, software, etc. |
| Web Development Tutorials | Tutorials for webmasters |
| developerWorks | IBM's web development web site - about time - at first glance it looks promising. Its "zones" include Java, Linux, Security, Web architecture, XML. |
| Do It Yourself Web | Many Links to HTML, Java, Perl, graphics resources |
| Comprehensive Guide to Publishing on the Web | Web tutorials, hints, reference, software tools, and more |
| pageresource.com | HTML, JavaScript, DHTML/Style Sheet, CGI/Perl tutorials, web design |
| O'Reilly Network | "Thematically based, each issue provides a balance of state-of-the-art technology and specifications from W3C with implementation guides that explain how to use the technology. Also included are technical papers from around the world, interviews, and news stories." |
| brainbell | "HTML, Javascript, PHP, Perl, CGI, XML etc. and web authoring tutorials, from beginner to advanced level." |
| Web Standards Project | "Coalition of web developers and users. Our mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading browser makers that standards are in everyone's best interest. Together we can make the web accessible to everyone." |
| Web Development Resources | "A collection of links to the most informative guides relating to web site development and maintenance" |
| HTML On-line Books/References |
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| Coolnerds Core HTML Quick Reference | I know it sounds juvenile, but his really is a good HTML reference. |
| HTML Design Guide | Well organized, comprehensive reference with examples. Available as a (shareware) PDF file. |
| MS HTML and DHTML Reference | Especially important for tracking down IE specific HTML and Javascript |
| Complete HTML 4.01 Reference | Another excellent resource on HTML 4.01 - all the tags, organized alphabetically and by function. |
| The W3C Guide to HTML | What HTML tags should I use? Which ones can I count on? Which ones are standard? What about HTML 3.0? Tables? |
| Project Cool's Developer Zone | "The web professionals' source for ideas and information about building websites. Learn to use the latest technologies and find the best reference guides." |
| Index DOT Html | Element Index, Character Entities, HTML Support History, HTML Spec History, Browser History, Authoring FAQs, What Tags To Use? |
| HTMLcenter | "Demonstrations, tutorials, codes, specification summaries, techniques/technologies descriptions, and supporting information about hypertext markup language (HTML) and related technologies." |
| HTML Station | Articles, reviews, and references for Web development |
| HTML Goodies | HTML links and info |
| Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters | "How web caches work, how (and how not) to control caches" |
| HTML Tutorials |
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| Reduced Instruction Set HTML | A guide to the essential HTML tags (my own little contribution) |
| HTML Dog | Many HTML and CSS references and tutorials |
| HTMLCodeTutorial.com | Another thorough HTML tutorial with useful examples |
| HTML Tutorials | Detailed HTML tutorials |
| quirksmode.org | "More than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities." Home of the Browser Compatibility Tables. |
| How do they do that with HTML? | Several nicely done HTML tips |
| Frames Tutorials & References |
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| Sizzling HTML: Frames | One of the best tutorials/reference sites on frames |
| FrameShop | Create HTML frames dynamically |
| Introduction to Frames | Another introductory frames tutorial |
| Frames Cheat Sheet | Good frames reference page |
| Frames Tutor | One in a series of Web tutorials |
| HTML Table Guides |
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| Liquid Tables | How do you make a web page that looks good no matter how wide the browser window is? Use liquid tables, a technique that lets you 'pour' your content into the page so that it flows to the margins, even if the window is resized. |
| Flexible Page Layout Using Tables | "If you use tables as the basic building block of your pages, you can create sites that work well in a wide range of window sizes." - a downloadable tutorial - well done |
| Table Tutor | One in a series of Web tutorials. |
| TableMaker | Create HTML tables dynamically |
| Design Guides |
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| Web Style Guide | Graphic design, user interface design, information design, optimizing HTML code, graphics, and text within Web pages. By Patrick Lynch. |
| Alertbox | "Current Issues in Web Usability" - includes Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design and the somewhat debatable End of Web Design |
| How Users Read on the Web | "They don't. People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences. As a result, Web pages have to employ scannable text." |
| Designing Web Usability | "From content and page design to designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities, Jakob Nielsen delivers complete direction on how to connect with any Web user, in any situation." |
| Usability.gov | Resource for designing usable, useful, and accessible Web sites and user interfaces |
| Usable Web Design Links | References on usable Web design |
| Style Guide for online hypertext | Somewhat dated guide by the famous Tim Berners-Lee |
| Writing for the Web | From Sun Microsystems |
| Web Page Design for Designers | A design-oriented treatment web page construction |
| Accessible Site Design | "Some useful tips and links that can help to make your site accessible by all browsers, and better in general." - Downloadable as a 32k zip file. |
| About.com Guide to Web Design | Web design tutorials, hints, reference, links |
| Web Development | December's methodology for developing webs |
| webpagesthatsuck | Learn good design by looking at bad design |
| IBM's Ease of Use | Why ease of use is critical to e-business success |
| Adobe Magazine | An archive of past issues of Adobe Magazine, in PDF format |
| CSS/Dynamic HTML Guides |
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| CSS1 W3C Recommendation | "This document specifies level 1 of the Cascading Style Sheet mechanism (CSS1)." |
| NCD Style Sheet Guide | Guide to Style Sheets - well organized with clear, straightforward examples -very useful |
| Index DOT Css | IN-depth reference: Property Index, Syntax, CSS Support History, CSS Spec History, Browser History, CSS Links, FAQ,
examples, CSS Bugs |
| Mulder's Stylesheets Tutorial | 5 part tutorial on CSS by Steve Mulder, author of "Web Designer's Guide to Stylesheets" |
| Introduction to Dynamic HTML | Microsoft's guide to Dynamic HTML |
| Introduction to Style Sheets | Microsoft's guide to CSS |
| CSS Tutorial | Nice, simple, well-designed tutorial on CSS - recommended |
| quirksmode.org | "More than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities." |
| Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Spec | "The Document Object Model provides a standard set of objects for representing HTML and XML documents, a standard model of how these objects can be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and manipulating them." |
| DynamicDrive.com | Many free, original DHTML scripts and components. |
| pathGenerator | "An online wizard that allows anyone to easily create an animating layer that follows any desired path." |
| jsDHTMLlib | "Trying to support all those different browsers got ya down? Tired of all that time spent upgrading all your scripts, or maintaining duplicate content as browsers evolve?" Here is a library fot support of x-browser / x-frame DHTML. |
| Cascading Style Sheets | Resources on Cascading Style Sheets |
| Web Style Sheets | Guides to CSS from W3C |
| JavaScript Kit | Rich, content laden developers site, containing Java applets, Javascript code, DHTML tips, CSS, and more |
| Cascading Style Sheets Guide | Tutorial on Cascading Style Sheets |
| The CSS Box Model | "The CSS box model describes the rectangular boxes that are generated for elements in the document tree and laid out according to the visual formatting model." |
| Unobtrusive DHTML, and the power of unordered lists | "Take advantage of the fact that nested unordered lists (that's <UL> and <LI> tags) express a hierarchial structure by making code that displays this simple hierarchy in a more complex form: a set of dropdown menus, or an expandable/collapsable tree." |
| Fundamentals of Web Page Scripting | "This textbook is an introduction to web page scripting including HTML, Dynamic HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, integration of musical files and introductory JavaScripting." |
| Advanced Web Page Scripting | "This textbook has an integral and parallel workbook with self-testing and provides advanced level JavaScripting and introductory Perl scripting for the professional web developer." |
| Assorted CSS Samples | Many CSS articles, techniques, and tips |
| ASCII Tables and HTML Entities |
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| AsciiTable.com | Complete ASCII table including the printed character, the decimal, hex, and octal values, HTML entity code, and meaning |
| Ascii Chart | Four column table presenting the printed character, the HTML/numeric code, HTML/string alternate, and meaning |
| JimPrice ASCII Chart | Tables and other useful related info |
| Javascript |
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| JavaScript Quick Reference | Lookup card for Javascript |
| Dojo Toolkit | "Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript....You can use the components that Dojo provides to make your web sites more useable, responsive, and functional." |
| Windows Scripting | "VBScript, JScript, Script Debugger, Scriptlets, Remote Scripting." Includes publicly-accessible newsgroup: microsoft.public.scripting.jscript |
| About JavaScript | Excellent resource! Browser Compatibility, JavaScript scripts, tutorials, articles on the evolution of Javascript |
| JavaScript Source | A JavaScript resource center |
| Dynamicdrive.com | "A comprehensive DHTML site featuring DHTML scripts, tutorials, and more" |
| JavaScript Tutorial at W3schools.com | A JavaScript tutorial |
| JavaScript and the Document Object Model | "The JavaScript approach to DOM and chronicles the building of a Web page to which the user can add notes and edit note content." |
| JavaScript Kit Tutorials | Excellent JavaScript introductory tutorials. Also see Advanced JavaScript Tutorials. |
| JavaScript Toolbox | "This is a collection of Javascript source files, examples, and concepts. Use these instead of always re-inventing JavaScript solutions." |
| Venkman JavaScript Debugger | "Venkman is the code name for Mozilla's JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers, including Firefox 1.0.x, Firefox 1.5.x, the Netscape 7.x series of browsers." |
| Web Development Bookmarklets | "These bookmarklets let you see how a web page is coded without digging through the source, debug problems in web pages quickly, and experiment with CSS or JS without editing the actual page." |
| Mouseover DOM Inspector | "The Mouseover DOM Inspector is a bookmarklet that allows you to view and manipulate the DOM of a web page simply by mousing around the document." |
| softcomplex free downloads | Free JavaScript scripts for menus, calendar, calculator, and more. |
| Tigra Scroller | The best free JavaScript scroller script I have found. See softcomplex.com for more useful scripts. |
| Javascrypt | High-security data encryption using JavaScript |
| BlueShoes Browser-Based Editor | Browser-based wysiwyg editor, HTML editor and text editor. Using JavaScript and DHTML, no java or plugin needed. |
| Bookmarklets | "Bookmarklets are simple [Javascript] tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Netscape and Explorer web browsers." |
| JavaScript Kit | Rich, content laden developers site, containing Java applets, Javascript code, DHTML tips, CSS & FrontPage tutorials |
| HotSyte | A JavaScript resource center |
| Javascript Code Library | A collection of JavaScript code fragments, function packages, and Web editor extensions |
| JavaScript Source | Another JavaScript resource center |
| autoscripter | Many JavaScript snippets - formerly Cut-N-Paste Javascript |
| JavaScript Animation Tutorial | JavaScript rollovers and other animated effects |
| quirksmode.org | "More than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities." |
| JavaScript 2 | "Searches all the top Java Script libraries, offering a total of over 9,000 free JavaScripts." |
| JavaScript: The Definitive Guide | 54 JavaScript examples from the book |
| TwinHelix Designs | Interesting and useful JavaScript, DHTML, XHTML, CSS and CGI projects. Includes Cascading Popup Menus: "This is quite possibly the smallest, fastest, easiest, and one of the most customisable hierarchial popup menu [JavaScript] scripts on the Internet." |
| The Complete Webmaster |
The beginnings of a good primary resource site, not just links, on CGI/Perl, Javascript, HTML and FrontPage |
| JavaScripts.com | Many JavaScript examples |
| EarthWeb's Javasript Archive | Hundreds of JavaScript examples |
| The HTML Goodies 30-Step JavaScript Primers | "The purpose of these 30 lessons is to get you started writing your own JavaScript events." |
| Very Dynamic Web Interfaces | Short intro to the XMLHttpRequest Object using Javascript |
| Javascript includes - yet another way of RPC-ing | "Javascript files can be included and executed on the fly — either when loading the page or in run-time. This means that HTTP requests are made without the use of XMLHttpRequest or iframes." |
| Java |
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| java.com | "Download Java Software for your desktop computer now!" Home of the Java VM. |
| java.sun.com | "The source for Java" developers site |
| The Java Tutorial | "A practical guide for programmers with hundreds of complete, working examples. The tutorial is organized into trails -- groups of lessons on a particular subject." You can also download The Java Tutorial
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| Gamelan | "The official directory for Java" |
| Brewing Java: A Tutorial | Huge Java tutorial - prototype for the book The Java Developer's Resource. Also at this site an excellent Java Book List |
| developer's daily Java | Questions and answers about Java |
| JavaWorld | Excellent articles on Java and Javascript |
| Java Boutique | More than 100 working Applets, along with instructions for downloading and including them in other Web pages |
| Complete Java Applications | Java and JavaScript applications |
| IBM's Java Technology Zone | Extensive, feature-packed search engine built just for Java developers. |
| Freewarejava | Many free Java applets |
| Dreamweaver |
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| Dreamweaver Evaluation | Macromedia Dreamweaver 30-day evaluation |
| Dreamweaver Templates | Macromedia Dreamweaver Templates |
| A Dreamweaver Tutorial | "The first steps of building a site with Dreamweaver and more advanced elements, like adding media and remotely managing a site." |
| Project Seven | "Professional web development resources for users of Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks software" |
| Rabi's Dreamweaver Extensions | "Extend your Dreamweaver further with this timesaving free extensions." |
| Perl and CGI |
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| The Perl Language Home Page | Perl Software, documentation, FAQs - includes http://reference.perl.com/ resource site |
| ActiveState | Perl for Windows |
| Picking Up Perl | "Freely redistributable tutorial book on Perl" |
| Perl 5 Reference Guide | "This is an HTMLified version of the Perl 5 Desktop Reference, ISBN 1-56592-187-9, by Rex Swain." |
| Uncultured Perl | "Perl's creator shares his thoughts on a subversive lifecycle." By Larry Wall |
| Perl on IIS 4 | "FAQ about issues arising from using Perl on IIS4" |
| Perl & Windows NT | "Using Perl on Windows NT servers" |
| Web Client Programming with Perl | "A behind-the-scenes look at how your web browser interacts with web servers. Readers of this book will learn how the Web works and how to write software that is more flexible, dynamic, and powerful than the typical web browser. The goal here is not to rewrite the browser, but to give you the ability to retrieve, manipulate, and redistribute web-based information in an automated fashion." |
| CGI 101 | "This class is intended for anyone who knows HTML, but doesn't know Perl or CGI programming (and maybe doesn't know any programming at all)." |
| Introductory Perl Tutorial Course for Windows | "The beginning concepts of Perl in a ... Windows environment and show you how to set it up for CGI with Microsoft's Personal Web Server or Internet Information Server." |
| Perl.org | "The Perl advocacy people" |
| PERLs of Wisdom | "The 10% you need -- for 90% of your work" - Perl tips & snippets |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Broken CGI Script | A tutorial on CGI/Perl debugging done in the form of a mystery - from the WebWare web site |
| Perl under IIS 4 | Some important gotchas about using Perl under IIS 4 |
| RexSwain.com | A number of small Perl programs among them a HTTP header viewer, which can also display external Javascript files. |
| Let me see my Web Server's response | A HTTP header viewer |
| MattKruse.com | Free Perl, Javascript, ASP scripts |
| MattKruse's Calendar | "A fully-customizable calendar system for your web site" - free - written in Perl |
| DiscusWare | WWW discussion board software - free - written in Perl |
| Perl Tutorial by NCSA | Excellent introductory Perl tutorial |
| The CGI Resource Index | Hundreds of pre-made CGIs, documentation, how-to articles |
| ScriptSearch | "Features thousands of free CGI and Java scripts and shareware programs for use on Web pages." |
| The Perl Archive | "At over 1800 free and professional perl and cgi scripts, the Perl Archive is an excellent resource for perl and cgi scripts." |
| FreePerl.com | "1160 scripts for you to choose from!" |
| FreeScripts | Some excellent Perl scripts - including a Chat and Postcard application |
| Matt's Script Archive | Abundant scripts, mostly using Perl |
| The Complete Webmaster |
The beginnings of a good primary resource site, not just links, on CGI/Perl, Javascript, HTML and FrontPage |
| CGI Made Really Easy | "Writing CGI scripts to process Web forms" |
| HTTP Made Really Easy | "Explains the simple, English-based structure of HTTP communication, and describes the practical details of writing HTTP clients and servers." |
| CGI.pm - a Perl5 CGI Library | This perl 5 library uses objects to create Web fill-out forms on the fly and to parse their contents. |
| Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm | Example Scripts from the book |
| mod_perl Guide | "Deploying mod_perl technology to give rocket speed to your CGI/Perl scripts." |
| Short guide to DBI | (The Perl Database Interface Module) |
| Symmetric Cryptography in Perl | All you need for implementing symmetric cryptography in Perl |
| CGIMAIL | "Collects information that a user has submitted in a web page form, and then emails it to someone." |
| Web Store | Free Perl shopping cart at Extropia |
| Extropia | Open source Perl scripts for real-world web applications |
| Introduction to Perl 5 for Web Developers | Perl programming for Web development |
| Regex Coach | "Regex Coach is a graphical application for Linux and Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively." |
| Regex Tutorial | Extensive regex tutorial |
| Zope |
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| zope.org | "Zope is the leading Open Source web application server. Zope enables teams to collaborate in the creation and management of dynamic web-based business applications such as intranets and portals. Zope makes it easy to build features such as site search, news, personalization, and e-commerce into your web applications." |
| CMS |
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| OpenSourceCMS | "Completely test content management systems in one place, before taking the time to install one." |
| CMS Matrix | "Compare the various CMS systems available on the market today." |
| Joomla! | "Joomla! (formerly known as Mambo) is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. " Also here you can find boards for more specific help on Joomla! features/addons and general help documentation. |
| Mambo CSS Template Tutorial | Also usable for Joomla! |
| Mambo CSS Quick Referenece | Also usable for Joomla! |
| Joomla Tribune Tutorials | Lots of Joomla Tutorials and more. |
| Mambo Tutorials | A few HTML-based tutorials. Also usable for Joomla! |
| Free Joomla Templates | A dozen free Joomla designs. |
| JoomlasHack Free Joomla Templates | A few free Joomla designs. |
| osCommerce | Free! "The leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, license fees, or limitations involved. osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments." |
| osCommerce Tutorials! |
Dozens of tutorials on the implementation and customization of osCommerce.
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| VirtueMart | "VirtueMart (formerly known as mambo-phpShop) is an Open Source E-Commerce solution for a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla! Joomla and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made for easy use in a PHP / MySQL environment." |
| Claroline: Open Source e-Learning | "Claroline is an Open Source software based on PHP /MySQL. It's a collaborative learning environment allowing teachers or education institutions to create and administer courses through the web." |
| OpenEMM | "A feature-rich industrial-strength enterprise software for e-mail marketing and the first Open Source application for e-mail marketing." |
| moodle.org | "Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student University." |
| OLAT | "OLAT is a web-based Open Source Learning Management System (LMS) / Learning Content Management System (LCMS). " |
| Exponent | "Exponent is a web application that allows site owners to easily create and manage dynamic websites." |
| Typo3 | "TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules." |
| Seditio | "Fully skinnable, from HTML4 TO XHTML 1.1, Plugable, scalable, fast, safe and stable, advanced built-in message boards. Browse this site for a preview, it's powered by Seditio." |
| Xoops | "XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), easy to use dynamic web content management system written in PHP." |
| Plone.org | A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System. |
| OS CMS with Plone | A two page article introducing Plone. |
| lucid CMS | "lucidCMS is a simple and flexible content management system for the individual or organization that wishes to manage a collection of web pages without the overhead and complexity of other available "community" CMS options." |
| Magnolia | "Magnolia Content Management Suite is the leading open-source Enterprise Content Management built on the revolutionary Java Content Repository Standard JSR-170" |
| Drupal.org | "Official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform." |
| TikiWiki.org | "Tikiwiki is a full featured Free Software (GNU/LGPL) Wiki/CMS/Groupware written in PHP and maintained by an active and international community of benevolent contributors." |
| e107 | "e107 is a content management system written in php and using the popular open source mySQL database system for content storage. It's completely free and totally customisable, and in constant development." |
| Metadot | Metadot is a leading open source portal software (GPL) used to create websites, intranets, extranets, project and community portals anyone can use. |
| PHP-Fusion | "A light-weight open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It utilises a mySQL database to store your site content and includes a simple, comprehensive adminstration system. PHP-Fusion includes the most common features you would expect to see in many other CMS packages." |
| Wordpress | "WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL." |
| Open-Realty.org | "Open-Realty is free web based listing management application. It is intended to be both easy to setup and use. Written in PHP, open-realty is designed to be a fast and flexible tool for your website." |
| Content Management Directory | "This directory is meant to be a starting point to investigate different content management systems." |
| Content-Wire.com | Content management and syndication news (gosh-awful colors - purple and pale green - and poor design), but a good reference, nevertheless). |
| Craftysyntax.com | "An open source live support solution that helps customer support with live help functionality that can be proactively pushed to visitors to your site or requested by the consumer. Crafty Syntax includes a large range of features to allow multiple operators, multiple departments and multiple languages to be used. Crafty Syntax Live Help is free and is progammed in PHP with Mysql for the datatabase." |
| Python |
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| python.org | The official website for the Python language |
| wxPython | "A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python programming language." |
| A Byte of Python | "A book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for anyone. If all you know about your computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you. If you are an experienced programmer who loves C, Perl or Java, you can also learn Python from this book." |
| Python network programming cheat sheet | Covers required common installation modules: PIP and IDLE, top python network programming libraries, network forensics: Required python libraries and scripts, and more. |
| python @ Dev Shed | Python Help, Python Code, Python Tutorials, Python Programming |
| Introduction to Programming using Python | "The objective of this course is to teach programming concepts to biologists. It is thus aimed at people who are not professional computer scientists, but who need a better control of computers for their own research." They also have a PDF file containing the whole course, and a more advanced version - Python course in Bioinformatics - for programmers. |
| python cookbook | Recipes, code snippets, and Tutorials in Python |
| Text Processing in Python | Free advanced Python book |
| PyLucid | CMS in Python/MySQL |
| Ruby |
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| Ruby | "Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable." |
| Ruby on Rails | "Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework in Ruby for writing real-world applications with joy and less code" |
| Rolling with Ruby on Rails | Tutorial on using Ruby on Rails |
| Learn to Program with Ruby | A great and thorough tutorial text on Ruby with live working examples |
| why's (poignant) guide to ruby | The weirdest (also most fun?) intro to Ruby (or any other computer language?) you are likely to encounter |
| Ruby.CodeZoo | Free Ruby code |
| ColdFusion |
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| ColdFusion Server MX 8 Trial | "With ColdFusion MX, you can build and deploy powerful web applications and web services with far less training time and fewer lines of code than ASP, PHP, and JSP." Trial version degrades to a developer version (using loopback address) after 30 days. CF MX 7 trial is a 275 meg download! |
| BlueDragon - Free Server for ColdFusion Apps | "Only with BlueDragon can you develop and deploy CFML as a J2EE developer, or as a .NET developer, or a CFML developer...or as all three at the same time!" |
| ColdFusion Support Center | "Access CF's support forums, technical tips, reference desk, product updates, add-on products" |
| Macromedia Security Zone | Security bulletins for Macromedia products, including CF |
| Daryl's ColdFusion Primer | "This document is designed to give someone who knows at least one programming language a reasonable idea of what ColdFusion is about and how to go about creating robust Web applications using the language." |
| Using Microsoft Access Databases in a Production Environment | Issues in using MS Access with ColdFusion |
| FarCry CMS | "FarCry CMS is a cutting edge ColdFusion MX application framework for web based content management that blends the very best of open source development with commercial backing and support." |
| Cartweaver | Another ColdFusion Shopping Cart you can buy. |
| Manually Configuring ColdFusion Server to work with Microsoft IIS 4.0 | If you use CF under NT/IIS you will need this info sooner or later! |
| Mysteries of Relative and Webroot-relative paths for ColdFusion Developers | This is info essential for ColdFusion programmers |
| CF_HTMLMAIL ColdFusion Custom tag | "If you use the normal CFMAIL tag to send HTML messages, only people using HTML capable email clients will see it correctly. Some people will actually see all of the HTML tags. Using this tag, you can send 1 email that includes a version for HTML capable email clients and a version for plain text email clients. The email client will choose the correct version automatically as long as it is MIME compliant." |
| Dealing with Dates and Times in ColdFusion | Answers these questions: "How do you display the output in the proper format? How do you reformat the date to use in a query? How do you insert or update a date or time through a form?" |
| Secure Your CF Applications | "ColdFusion Enterprise Edition comes with a security framework built into it. However, if you don't have Enterprise Edition or don't feel like using the built-in security features, you can create your own application security" using session variables. |
| CFMCentral.com | "Web Development and Content Management Tools for ColdFusion (CF), JavaServer Pages (JSP), ActiveServer Pages (ASP), PHP and PERL. Custom Tags and software components that empower developers with the ability to provide highend content management systems to clients or corporate intranets." |
| CFTipsplus.com | ColdFusion programming snippets |
| ColdFusion Articles | Articles for the ColdFusion developer by Ben Forta, author of "The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit." Also see his CF Links. |
| Building a Simple ColdFusion Content Management System with MySQL | "This tutorial lays out the basics for creating a content management system in ColdFusion and MySQL." |
| SQL |
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| MySQL.com | "MySQL is a key part of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python), a fast growing open source enterprise software stack. More and more companies are using LAMP as an alternative to expensive proprietary software stacks because of its lower cost and freedom from lock-in." |
| MySQL documentation (Full) | Full doc in HTML (2.3 meg) |
| MySQL Reserved Word | Words that cannot be used as MySQL database identifiers. |
| MySQL Basics on Windows NT/2000 | Installing MySQL under Windows |
| Phpmyadmin | "PhpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats." |
| Phpmyedit | "phpMyEdit generates PHP code for displaying/editing MySQL tables in HTML. All you need to do is to write a simple calling program (a utility to do this is included). It includes a huge set of table manipulation functions (record addition, change, view, copy, and removal), table sorting, filtering, table lookups, and more." |
| SQL Tutorial & Interpreter w/ Live Practice Database | "Not only provides easy-to-understand SQL instructions, but it allows you to practice what you learn using the on-line SQL interpreter" |
| Advanced SQL Tutorial & Interpreter w/ Live Practice Database | "This Intermediate/Advanced SQL Tutorial will cover the SELECT statement in great detail." |
| SQL Tutorial - Learn SQL | "SQL tutorial featuring comprehensive guide to SQL language concepts." |
| SQL Strings | "Database terms glossary and online reference for various ADO and
ADO.NET SQL database connection strings for MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle." |
| SQL School | Extensive SQL tutorial |
| A Gentle Introduction to SQL | "An interactive SQL tutorial. Including online access to SQL engines running MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle and Access." |
| MyODBC for Windows | MySQL ODBC drivers for Windows |
| Microsoft SQL Server Downloads | SQL Server Service Packs |
| Microsoft SQL Server Technical Resources | Review technical information and learn more about how to deploy, manage, and administer SQL Server. |
| Microsoft SQL Server Reserved Words | Words you mustn't misuse. |
| Microsoft TransAct SQL Functions | Functions reference |
| Access to MySQL | Access to MySQL is a small program that will convert Microsoft Access Databases to MySQL. |
| An Introduction to MySQL | Various topics surrounding the basic functioning of MySQL |
| MySQL FULLTEXT Searching | " This feature is not to be confused with the LIKE function in MySQL. LIKE works more along the lines of a regular expression. On the other hand, FULLTEXT indices are fully indexed fields which support stopwords, boolean searches, and relevancy ratings." |
| PostgreSQL | "PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available anywhere." |
| database dev zone | Includes answers to frequently-asked questions about databases, newsgroups dedicated to SQL Server development, articles about and links to SQL Server and application server deployment. |
| SQL Standards Page | "Designed to be a central source of information about the SQL standards process and its current state." |
| SQL Injection Attacks by Example | Important security issue with web-based SQL queries. |
| SQLite | "A self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration, SQL database engine." Built into PHP 5. |
| Learning SQL Using phpMyAdmin | "This tutorial is aimed at programmers, analysts, and designers of dynamic Web sites who want to learn the basics of SQL." |
| Active Server Pages/VB/ASP.NET |
|---|
| LearnASP.com | Free ASP References & scripts |
| Installing Personal Web Server to run ASP | Step-by-step instructions on how to install and configure Microsoft's Personal Web Server on Windows 98 to run ASP |
| AspEmail.com | "Free secure ASP Mail component for an ASP/IIS environment" |
| CoverYourASP.com | "You can download all the source code for this site, FREE. The site is completely self-documenting - every article describes how the site was written and introduces you to databases" |
| ASPalliance | Free resource for developers working with Microsoft Internet solutions, featuring samples, tutorials, and lessons |
| ASP 101 | The place developers go for Active Server Pages information |
| ASP 101 - Database Articles: | Use ASP to interact with ODBC compliant databases |
| Using ASP to Fetch Google APIs Results | "Gather search results in XML format." |
| Using the Google APIs to Spell Check | "The Google web API "spell check" allows you to send a string of text and receive alternatives for misspelled words. The power in this web API is that the Google dictionary includes technology words that are used in website searches, but may not have been included in a Standard English dictionary." |
| CodeGuru.com | "CodeGuru is dedicated to helping developers and programmers by providing the most robust and up-to-date technical information and code snippets on the Internet!" Source code samples and entire applications for Visual Basic, .NET. |
| Microsoft's Visual Basic Start Page | Official Home Page for Visual BASIC |
| searchVB.com | "Free online directory and web guide featuring thousands of programming resources for Visual Basic developers." |
| The Visual Basic Compendium | "The first and definitive source of information about Visual Basic, add-on products, and the user community on the Internet." |
| dotNETtoTheMax | "An online knowledge repository for .NET developers" |
| VB Zone | Articles from the magazine |
| Gary Beene's Visual Basic Center | Hundreds of links to Visual Basic resources |
| Get help from Devx | Searchable database packed with 100,000+ articles on software development. |
| HTML Validators & Other Tools |
|---|
| Xenu's Link Sleuth | "Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) is a spidering software that checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on normal links, images, frames, backgrounds and local image maps. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time." - Best link checker available and its free! |
| Network-Tools.com | Traceroute, Ping, Domain Name Server (DNS) Lookup, WHOIS, DNS Records, HTTP Headers, and E-Mail Relay Check |
| eXTReMe Tracker |
"Conveniently arranged, numbers, percentages, stats, totals and averages. All the way up from simple counting your visitors until tracking the keywords they use to find you." |
| MyComputer.com |
"Web tool resources for webmasters. Free web hit counters, guestbooks, more." |
| Lorem Ipsum |
"Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.....It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English." |
| PHP |
|---|
| PHP.net | PHP is an Open Source, server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. This is the PHP home page. |
| PHP Manual | Authoritative PHP manual (in HTML) |
| Practical PHP Programming | Free online text on PHP programming (in HTML). |
| PHP extensions in Win32 | "Many extensions are built into the Windows version of PHP. This means additional DLL files, and the extension directive, are
not used to load these extensions. The Windows
PHP Extensions table lists extensions that require, or used to require, additional PHP
DLL files. Here's a list of built in extensions:
In PHP 4 (updated PHP 4.3.11):
BCMath,
Caledar,
COM,
Ctype,
FTP,
MySQL,
ODBC,
Overload,
PCRE,
Session,
Tokenizer,
WDDX,
XML and
Zlib
In PHP 5 (updated PHP 5.0.4), the following changes exist. Built in:
DOM,
LibXML,
Iconv,
SimpleXML,
SPL and
SQLite.
And the following are no longer built in:
MySQL and
Overload." |
| Zend | "A complete, ground-up rewrite of the PHP scripting engine. While being 100% downwards compatible with its predecessor, which powers PHP 3.0, it performs orders of magnitude quicker, and provides even more functionality to both module writers and end users." |
| PHP Foundations | Introductory articles on PHP from O'Reilly |
| Learn PHP | "LearnPHP.org is a comprehensive resource of categorized web development tutorials. We intend to make it the richest online database of web development tutorials, including, but not limited to, PHP and MySQL tutorials." |
| PHP DevCenter | Many articles on PHP from O'Reilly |
| PHP 4 & 5 under WINXP/Apache | A tutorial on how to run PHP 4 & 5 at the same time on port 80 |
| Webmonkey's PHP/MySQL Tutorial | PHP and MySQL for creating data-driven sites |
| Using PHP/MySQL with Google Maps | "This tutorial is intended for developers who are familiar with PHP/mySQL, and want to learn how to use Google Maps with a mySQL database." |
| Creating a PHP-Based Content Management System | A tutorial on using the PHP programming language to build a content management system |
| Hardened-PHP | "The Hardened-PHP Project was founded to protect PHP users and servers against present and future security holes." |
| Savant Template System for PHP | "The simple, elegant, and powerful alternative to Smarty. Savant is a powerful but lightweight object-oriented template system for PHP. Unlike other template systems, Savant by default does not compile your templates into PHP; instead, it uses PHP itself as its template language so you don't need to learn a new markup system." |
| Smarty | "Although Smarty is known as a "Template Engine", it would be more accurately described as a "Template/Presentation Framework." That is, it provides the programmer and template designer with a wealth of tools to automate tasks commonly dealt with at the presentation layer of an application. " |
| Fusebox.org | "The most popular framework for building ColdFusion and PHP web applications. "Fuseboxers" find that the framework releases them from much of the drudgery of writing applications and enables them to focus their efforts on creating great, customer-focused software." |
| symfony | "Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure." |
| Yellow Duck Framework | "An object oriented framework for PHP web applications" |
| WASP | "Web Application Structure for PHP - A powerful multi-tier MVC web application framework built on Object Oriented PHP5. Uses PEAR DB_DataObjects and Html_Template_Flexy." |
| Simplify PHP Development with WASP | "Lately, more software engineers are moving from cumbersome "enterprise" languages such as Java and C# to languages such as Python and Ruby and PHP. With version 5, PHP has finally reached the point where these developers can feel at home in what used to be considered a hacker's language. By demonstrating that it is possible to create and use complicated, "enterprise-class" frameworks effectively in PHP 5, WASP will help more developers make the switch." |
| Understanding MVC in PHP | "This article series demonstrates how to build an MVC web framework using PHP 5." |
| Building a PHP Front Controller | The Front Controller design pattern describes a way to centralize processing in a web-based application. |
| Migrating to Page Controllers | This article explains how Page Controller works, when to use it, and how to refactor your multifunction pages. |
| phpBuilder | How-To Columns and other resources |
| phpDocumentor | Current standard auto-documentation tool for the php language |
| PX : the PHP code exchange | PHP code snippets |
| Five common PHP design patterns | "Design patterns are useful for everyone. If these tools aren't exclusive to architecture astronauts, what are they, and why are they useful in PHP applications?" |
| PHP Resource Index | PHP code snippets |
| phpfreaks | "Information to use while learning or developing PHP and MySQL." |
| PHP Crazy | "This website was built to give you a ton of information to help you learn and grow in the PHP programing language, without adding a ton of fluff and needless data." |
| Programming PHP @ Webmonkey | Some good articles/tutorials illustrating PHP's robust programming potential. |
| PHPdeveloper.org | Lots of PHP tutorials |
| phpPatterns | "A site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development." |
| PHP-editors.com | Lots of articles about PHP |
| Moodle | A FREE "a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities" written in PHP |
| WebCalendar | A FREE web calendar written in PHP |
| FishCart | "Open Source e-commerce system for products, services, online payment and online donation management. Written in PHP4, FishCart® has been tested on Windows NT, Linux, and various Unix platforms. FishCart presently supports the MySQL, PostgreSQL, Solid, Oracle and MSSQL." |
| Phorum | "Phorum is an open source web based discussion software application written in PHP." |
| Coppermine-gallery | "Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend." |
| Gallery | "Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site." |
| RoundCube | RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client. |
| Gregarius | Gregarius is a web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator, designed to run on your web server, allowing you to access your news sources from wherever you want. |
| PHPsurveyor | "PHP Surveyor is a set of PHP scripts that interact with MySQL to develop surveys, publish surveys and collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created it can be published as an online survey (displayed as single questions, group by group or all in one page) or you can use a dataentry system for administration of paper-based versions of the survey. PHP Surveyor can produced 'branching' surveys (set conditions on whether individual questions will display), can vary the look and feel of your survey through a templating system, and can provide basic statistical analysis of your survey results." |
| Using PHP with ODBC | "This tutorial is intended for the PHP programmer interested in learning more about database connectivity - using the ODBC standard." |
| PHP Database ODBC | Another tutorial using ODBC |
| Hot Php Scripts | Free and commercial PHP scripts. |
| PHP Cookbook | "A collaborative collection of techniques from the PHP community." |
| PHP Ping | A short tutorial |
| Introduction to Socket Programming with PHP | Short tutorial |
| Writing Socket Servers in PHP | Another short tutorial |
| PHP-GTK | "PHP-GTK is an extension for the PHP programming language that implements language bindings for GTK+. It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications." |
| Flat Calendar | "Unlike most of the calendar and event book scripts available, Flat Calendar stores all its events in files on the server without any use of a database." Free PHP script. |
| Flat File DataBase (FFDB) for PHP | "Advanced PHP database for those without mySQL or similar dedicated databases. Supports many data types and advanced features through a simple PHP object API. Low-level implementation very efficient with indexes. Example code and database manager supplied." |
| SIPS | "SIPS is an integrated weblog and link indexing system written 100% in PHP.It is aimed at those with access to databaseless, PHP enabled web servers who want to run a weblog site like Slashdot and/or a simple link index like Yahoo!." |
| Navboard | "Navboard is a php based web forum using text files to store data instead of using a database, compatible with any server running php 4.0 or higher, all the features of most major forum software and no installation needed." |
| phpBB | "phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ." |
| Simple Machines | Free PHP-based "community forum software package that is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources." |
| PBLang | "PBLang is a powerful flatfile Bulletin Board System. It combines many features of a professional board, but does not even require SQL support. It is completely based on text-file." |
| miniBB | "miniBB (an abbreviation of 'minimalist bulletin board') is a flat-type (not threaded) free web forum and discussion software, open source, written in PHP and using mySQL or another PHP-compatible database." |
| PHP Developer Center (Oracle) | Technical information about the use of PHP in conjunction with Oracle databases. |
| PHP Text DB API | "With the 'Txt-Db-API' you can access normal Text Files like a SQL Database. You don't need any special database software on the webserver, yet you can still use SQL!" |
| Using The Google Web APIs With PHP | "PHP comes with a couple of classes designed specifically for SOAP-based remote procedure calls over HTTP. This makes PHP ideal for developers looking to integrate the Google Web APIs into their Web applications." |
| PEAR Web Services Packages | PHP packages for accessing web services. |
| PHP Script Pages | Two PHP pages for accessing databases. |
| PHPit.net | Forums, codesnippets, articles on PHP. |
| Feed2Html | Feed2Html is a free PHP script that converts data from RSS to HTML. |
| Using cURL with PHP | "cURL is one of the most powerful PHP extensions. It stands for Client URL, and allows you to communicate with other servers using a wide range of protocols." |
| Snoopy PHP Class | "Snoopy is a PHP class that simulates a web browser. It automates the task of retrieving web page content and posting forms, for example." |
| Lamppix | "A Linux Live CD booting a webserver. LAMPPIX allows you to burn your web projects (i.e. PHP presentations or Perl scripts) onto a CD-ROM and give them away to others. They will only have to insert the CD and reboot -- if you configured LAMPPIX right (and this is really easy!) they can view your project." |
| phpESP | "PHP scripts to let non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization. MySQL database backend." |
| Getting Flashy With PHP | Generate Flash swf files from PHP |
| Ming | A SWF output library and PHP module |
| PHP 2005 | Lerdorf's oscon2005 presentation |
| PHP Presentations | Index of PHP presentations |
| Top 21 PHP progamming mistakes | This article is intended for the PHP programmer interested in avoiding some of the most common mistakes when applying PHP. |
| Ilia Alshanetsky's PHP Articles | Articles about PHP programming |
| Herong's Tutorial Notes on PHP | "Topics include array, book, CGI, CLI, cookie, database, directory, download, example, file, free, GB2312, header lines, HTTP, IIS, image, language, localization, mail, MySQL, non ASCII, online, output buffer, PHP, redirect, request, session, SMTP, SOAP, SOAP Extension, SQL, tutorial, Unicode, WSDL." |
| PHP Form Handling | Short but useful article |
| Reading and writing the XML DOM with PHP | "This article presents three methods for reading XML: using the DOM library, using the SAX parser, and using regular expressions. Writing XML using DOM and PHP text templating will also be covered." |
| Zend PHP Code Gallery | Lots of PHP code snippets and classes |
| phpJobScheduler | "Designed to automate tasks by scheduling PHP scripts to run at set intervals, a replacement for cron jobs on Unix or scheduled tasks using Microsoft Scheduler. phpJobScheduler is a scheduler that runs using PHP and MySQL (no root/admin access is required)." |
| FCKeditor | This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of desktop editors like MS Word. It's lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
Because it is Open Source, you may use it however you want. |
| Free RSS to HTML PHP Script | "This script will allow you to create webpages that will always display the most current information from your RSS feed, and because the resulting page is pure HTML, it will be in a format friendly to search engine robots." |
| Build your own RSS client with PHP | "How to use the PEAR XML_RSS package to build a simple RSS client that integrates news headlines from multiple RSS feeds into a single Web page." |
| Zip extension for PHP | "The Zip extension for PHP aims to provide a convenient and powerful set of functionality to work with zip archives. It can read, write, and create zip archives." |
| XML |
|---|
| XML.com | "The site is designed to serve both people who are already working with XML and those HTML users who want to "graduate" to XML's power and complexity. A core feature of the site is the Annotated XML Specification." |
| XML Tutorials | "How to use XML to mine data on the web, how to use it to interact with existing data services such as iTunes and Google, and how to use it in applications such as e-books, online speech synthesis, and multimedia." |
| XML.org | Extensive collection of articles on XML |
| zvon.org | Extensive reference on XML |
| What the XML? | "Selected xml links of continuing relevance" - includes LEARN XML IN 11.5 MINUTES |
| MS's XML Developer Center | "Information on Microsoft's support of the Extensible Markup Language (XML)—the universal format for data on the Web. XML allows developers to easily describe and deliver rich, structured data from any application in a standard, consistent way. XML does not replace HTML; rather, it is a complementary format." |
| XML Tutorial | Microsoft's tutorial on XML |
| IBM's XML Zone | IBM's Developer's site on XML |
| XML Tutorial | From elementary to intermediate |
| Styling XML Content with CSS | "This tutorial explores CSS inside and out, including how to create style sheets for XML documents with CSS." |
| Getting Started with XSL | "h
How to transform XML documents into HTML documents that can be viewed in web browsers" |
| Using XML with Databases | "How to export database data as XML code, as well as how to make SQL queries on a database and format the results in XML" |
| Add a little style to your XML document with XSL | "If XML provides the ability to format document content, XSL provides the ability to define how the formatted XML content is presented." |
| XML WC3 specification | "This is the home page of the W3C XML Activity, part of the
Architecture Domain. The
XML Activity Statement explains the W3C's work on this topic in more detail." |
| BizTalk | "The BizTalk™ Framework is an XML framework for application integration and electronic commerce. It includes a design framework for implementing an XML schema and a set of XML tags used in messages sent between applications. Microsoft, other software companies, and industry standards bodies will use the BizTalk Framework to produce XML schemas in a consistent manner." |
| XML, Java, and the future of the Web | "This paper describes the XML effort and discusses new kinds of Java-based Web applications made possible by XML." |
| Transforming Flat Files To XML | "Use XSLT to transform non-XML data sources using SAX (Simple API for XML)." |
| Very Dynamic Web Interfaces | Short intro to the XMLHttpRequest Object using Javascript |
| Inside SOAP | "The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a minimal set of conventions for invoking code using XML and HTTP." |
| Serializing XML With PHP | "Simplify the task of creating XML documents with the XML_Serializer class, which lets you build nested XML documents from PHP data structures like arrays and objects (and vice versa)." |
| PHP Phrasebook | "PHP code phrases for the PHP developer's everyday use covers PHP 5 and is relevant for PHP 4." |
| AJAX |
|---|
| Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications | "The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what's possible on the Web." |
| AJAX: Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting | "This article aims to give you an introduction to the foundations of remote scripting, in particular, the emerging XMLHttpRequest protocol." |
| A Simpler Ajax Path | Intro to the use of the XMLHttpRequest object |
| OpenAjax | "The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using Ajax that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies." |
| Cpaint | "CPAINT (Cross-Platform Asynchronous INterface Toolkit) is a true AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript+XML) and JSRS (JavaScript Remote Scripting) implementation. CPAINT provides you the code required to implement AJAX and JSRS on the back-end, while the returned data is manipulated, formatted, and displayed on the front-end in JavaScript. This allows you to build web applications that can provide nearly real-time feedback to the user, including nearly real-time data updates." |
| HTML_AJAX | A PHP and JavaScript AJAX library. |
| XMLHttpRequest and AJAX for PHP programmers | XMLHttpRequest objects can be a simple way of getting data to and from a PHP application while keeping your client right at home on the same page. |
| Fiddler | "Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data." |
| Mastering Ajax | "Understanding Ajax, a productive approach to building Web sites, and how it works." |
| AJAX Articles | Selected articles from Mozilla Developer Center. |
| AJAXian.com | An AJAX community. |
| AJAX Wikipedia Article | Wikipedia reference. |
| Ajax & PHP without using the XmlHttpRequest Object | How to use Ajax without even having to use the XmlHttpRequest object, for compatibility with older browsers. |
| Web Service APIs |
|---|
| A Web Services Primer |
"Web services are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published, located, and invoked across the Web. Web services perform functions, which can be anything from simple requests to complicated business processes...Once a Web service is deployed, other applications (and other Web services) can discover and invoke the deployed service." |
| Google Web APIs Reference |
"This document explains in detail the semantics of the function calls you can make using the Google Web APIs service." |
| Searching Google Using the Google Web Service |
A small tutorial using the Google Web APIs service. |
| Google Maps API Documentation | Official docs |
| Google Mapki | Help for using the Google Maps API |
| Google MAPKI FAQ |
Very useful!, especially on GeoCoding and using Google Maps on a localhost |
| Google Cartography |
"Google Cartography uses the Google Search API to build a visual representation of the interconnectivity of streets in an area." |
| Using XML to Hack Google Maps |
"How to create a complete XML-based custom Google Maps application" |
| Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications |
"Wouldn't it be great to incorporate Google's mapping capabilities into your applications, taking advantage of not only its enormous database, but also the eminently cool interface that comes with it?" |
| Track visitors to your website using Google Maps | A simple application |
| Using PHP/MySQL with Google Maps | "This tutorial is intended for developers who are familiar with PHP/mySQL, and want to learn how to use Google Maps with a mySQL database." |
| googlemapsmania.blogspot.com | List of Google Map sites |
| Google maps projects | Many projects using Google Maps |
| Another Google Maps PHP class | Code for using Google Maps with PHP |
| Links to Google Tools |
Many links to pages implementing the Google API. |
| How To Make Your Own Web Mashup |
Many links to pages implementing Web services. |
| Amazon Web Services |
Build on Amazon’s suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications. Here you can create an Amazon Web Services account. |
| Amazon Web Services: A Brief Introduction Using PHP |
"How to create a very basic AWS site. Using a travel site as a backdrop, you will learn how to construct the XML link to Amazon then parse the XML using PHP." |
| Automating Amazon research with the Zend Framework |
"The framework provides clean separation of logic and presentation along with easy maintenance and extensibility through a well-organized application structure." |
| Build a Site Search with Yahoo! Search Web Services |
"This post will examine Yahoo! Search Web Services, which consists of an API that allows developers to integrate Yahoo!s search functionality into their web sites and applications." |
| Yahoo! Web Services and PHP |
"From scratch, a PHP form that builds a Yahoo! query, sends it off, and displays the results based on the type of search." |
| A PHP Web Services Client | "The basics of Web services and how you can use PHP and SOAP" |
| PHP Web Services Without SOAP | Short tutorial on using REST (Representational State Transfer) - "REST, unlike SOAP, doesn't require you to install a separate tool kit to send and receive data. Instead, the idea is that everything you need to use Web services is already available if you know where to look." |
| Introduction to SOAP |
"SOAP provides a way to communicate between applications running on different operating systems, with different technologies and programming languages." |
| Syndicating the Web with RSS News Feeds |
"In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use a news aggregator to syndicate RSS news feeds, how to create and validate your own RSS documents, how to transform and display RSS news feeds using XSLT." |
| Web Hosting |
|---|
| InMotionHosting | Best deal on web hosting I have seen, with excellent service, many one-click installable OS packages - plans start $7.95/month |
| HostMonster.com | All hosting plans include at least: 300 Gigabytes of space, host UNLIMITED domains, Unlimited Pop/Imap Email Accounts, SSH Access, 3,000 Gigs of transfer/month, SSL, FTP, Stats,CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MYSQL, Front Page Extensions, Free Domain Forever, Free Site Builder, Fantastico Script Support, and more |
| Mal's e-commerce | Free E-commerce site with shopping cart |
| Freehostia.com | Absolutely FREE: Data storage: 250 MB, Monthly bandwidth: 5 GB, Hosting for 1 domain, 5 subdomains, NO ADS, PHP enabled, 1 MySQL database, 10 MB MySQL DB space, PHPMyAdmin, 3 POP3 accounts, Webmail service, POP3 access/no SMTP, Elefante free scripts (e.g., Joomla), and much more. |
| DynDNS |
"A free Dynamic DNS service - allows you to alias a dynamic IP address to a static hostname in any of the many domains we offer, allowing your computer to be more easily accessed from various locations on the Internet" |
| DomainNotes.Com | "Domain Notes covers the latest domain developments, including domain news, registration, legal precedents, domain searches, buying and selling, searching and dealing with Internic." |
| MyServer.org |
"Here you will find all the information you need to setup and maintain your own webserver at home or office on your DSL or Cable connection." |
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