Places to Go
A few links from around the net. Check ’em out. You know you want to...
Photography
*nixy Stuff
- Bwana: Browse your unix MAN pages from safari.
- ChangeShortName: A script to change a user's short name on OS X
- Fireware: Watchguard has started a blog on getting the most out of your firewall. Neat stuff.
- Del.icio.us Unix: A collection of Unix links
- Unix in 10 minutes: A good refresher on Unix Command line basics
- OS X FAQ Unix Tutorials: A whole slew of helpful tutorials to help wrangle the OS X command line
- Visor: A SIMBL based plugin that spurts a terminal window from the OS X toolbar... very nifty.
- Sugodi: get yer man pages, get 'em in Safari. Also provides URL shortcuts for your favorite searches.
- Krita: Because anything is better than the Gimp's interface
- Advanced BASH Scripting Guide: A vast wealth of BASH Scripting goodness
- Mys Set Top Box: use Knoppix and MythTV to make a Linux PVR
- Write Better Passwords: CSO Online has a great article about how to write more secure passwords
- Make Ubuntu look like OS X: With a little extra work Ubuntu can look almost like home...
- An Interactive PHP Shell: Run PHP on the command line with a fully interactive shell.
- Xara Extreme: An open source vector illustration program for linux. Check out the OS X progress as well
- Ack!: Ack, better than grep. Made for searching files in a dev environment and offers a slight speed boost over grep.
- OpenDNS: Free DNS resolution service with anti-phishing protection and correction for common url mispellings. Its pretty quick too
Apple
Friends
- halbie: halbie's webpage
- Eddy: A guy named Eddy. Drawing, painting and photography. Good stuff.
- Scott: Scott Hill, overall web guru
- roo: John PennyPacker's Portfolio
- Basseq: John Whittet, wiley scapper
- Fuzzy Coconut: Placeholder for Fuzzy Coconut
- Puddlemonkey's Blog: Get a load of Puddlemonkey
- Abu: Joel Schou, needs a hug
- Gozer: Ian has a blog... and he's updating it.
- Pat Angello Fan Club: If you can call 1 guy his own fan club then this is the best fan club in the world!
- Unladen Swallow: Placeholder for Unladen Swallow
- Today's Hot Topic: Two Canadian guys in search of truth, justice and the perfect skirt
- Tony Previte: Tony Previte, veteran code freak
Graphics
- Developer Color Picker: If you need different color definitions for specialized work then this is the color picker for you.
- Type 101: A nice resource from Fonts.com about various aspects of fonts and typography
- Photoshop Tutorials 2007: Smashing Magazine recaps the best Photoshop Tutorials from around the 'net
- Top 25 Free Stock Photography Sites: SpeckyBoy has compiled a nice list of free stock photography resources.
- Designers Toolbox: Design resources for print and web design
- Illustration Class dot com: Von. R. Glitschka has started a site dedicated to the what he has learned by teaching illustration classes
- Inkscape: Open source vector graphics editor. Its not Illustrator, but its free and relatively full featured.
- Edward Tufte: If there's anything to know about presenting information, he's probably written about it. I've read several of his books and they're pure gold.
- NPS Maps Symbols: The National Parks Service provides cartographic symbols and textures for download
Hangouts
Miscelanei
Music
Web Design & Development
- PHP Labs: Writing neat and tity web apps with php
- PHP ClamAV Lib: Scan files for viruses using the open source ClamAV from PHP
- PHP I18n Charsets: More than you ever wanted to know about using Unicode Characters in PHP
- XML Nanny: A handy dandy application for validating XHTML and XML documents when the W3C validator can't see your test server
- XRay: A javascript bookmarklet that allows for inspection of any page element on any page. Now works with IE6+
- Zend PHP IDE: Zend is contributing to the Eclipse project to help build an open source IDE
- YummyFTP: An FTP client with some very nice features. The Autoroute feature looks especially nice.
- Xcode ODPHPTools: PHP tools for Apple's Xcode
- Web Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer: Just like it says...
- PHP: Alternate syntax for control structures: Use a colon instead of curly braces in if, while, and for blocks
- Pimp My Camino: Like it suggests, items for pimping out your install of Camino, an OS X web browser based on the Mozilla engine
- PHP4 and PHP5 on the same server, at the same time: Scott Hurring outlines how to run PHP4 as a module and PHP5 as CGI to get both versions at the same time
- PHP UTF-8 Cheat Sheet: Nickleton.com has a nice overview of what's up with using PHP & mbstring to get UTF-8 working right.
- PHP Security: The PHP Security Consortium Library
- Writing Toolbox: 50 good thoughts on better writing
- WebMon: Get a grip on Apache on OS X. Easily set up WebDAV, PHP and SSL.
- Search Engine Relationships: Bruce Clay makes a rockin interative chart
- Taconite: An AJAX framework for taking the sting out of adding XMLHttpRequests to a website
- View Rendered Source: View a hierarchal rendering of a web page's source
- View Formatted Source: A FireFox extension for viewing formatted source code
- SuperGenPass: Generate your passwords dynamically using a master password and the site domain. Handy and more secure than that password you currently use everywhere...
- Visualizing Fitt’s law: Putting Fitt’s law into a language I can understand
- Standard PHP Library: It was added rather quietly, but once you dive it its hard not to make noise about it. I'm lovin' it.
- Vitaly.Friedman Web Dev Bookmarks: Even more more web dev bookmarks
- The Behavior Layer: Using JavaScript as an effective behavior layer
- Vertical Rythm Calculator: A calculator to help you define font sizes to maintain a constant baseline via CSS em sizes.
- Unobtrusive Javascript: An article on JS Practices
- Tidy Service: Run HTML Tidy from the OS X Service menu.
- TypeTester: Online previews of common web and local fonts on your system.
- The website development process: As told by little plastic figures
- The Scourge of Arial: The lowdown on the sordid history of this mere imposter
- Unofficial Ruby Usage Guidelines: A pretty good overview of common sense ruby formatting and use. Good for Ruby n00bs like me ;)
- The sad story of PNG gamma correction: A look inside why PNGs render differently accross browsers and how to alleviate the problem, well, for the most part
- SQL DB Primer: Behind the scenes of a working db
- Spider Simulator: Simulates a Search Engine Spider crawling your site
- Web Design Practices: Articles and such on Web Design
- Web Design Cheat Sheets: More cheat sheets than you can shake a stick at.
- W3C RDF Validator: Just what the name says
- RSS 1.0 Spec: The RSS 1.0 Specification page
- Round Two: Firefox extentions to drool over
- Web Design References: More CSS links than you can shake a stick at.
- reWork: reWork: A regular expression workbench
- Voice Over: The Mac OS finally has a screenreader
- Screen Grab Confab Vol. III: Cameron Moll does it again
- Simulate CSS Constants with PHP: A neat article on using PHP and CSS together
- Sitemaps: An XML Schema to describe your site structure to search engines. Created by Google, adopted by Yahoo & Microsoft.
- SlayerOffice Color Picker: Another color palette helper
- Sim Daltonism: A nice little program that shows the effects of different kinds of color blindness
- SEO Chat: More than you needed to know about Search Engine Optimization
- Search Engine Ranking Factors: A listing and ranking of items that factor in to how pages and sites get ranked by search engines
- SeaShore: A Cocoa based Image Editor for OS X that uses the GIMP file format.
- Web Designers Checklist: Oodles of info on browser support for modern CSS & HTML features.
- Multiple CSS Backgrounds: Decaffeinated.org shows us multiple backgrounds in Safari 1.3+
- Holy CSS Zeldman: More WebDev links than you can shake a stick at
- HTML Dog CSS 2.1 Reference: CSS Library
- Hudzilla PHP Basics: Good basic PHP knowledge
- Creative Bits: Good overall creative talk
- CSS / EDGE - More from Eric Meyer: CSS / EDGE
- CSS Validator for BBEdit and TextWrangler: John Gruber brings us a welcome script to check CSS syntax in two of our favorite programs
- Having Layout: how the has layout setting in IE can effect display and behavior
- Compress your CSS: Compress your CSS with a little PHP Voodoo
- Integrity: A website link checker to help make sure your website is running smoothly.
- JavaScript Lint: Test your JavaScripts for common mistakes before even running the script itself. Uses the Firefox JS engine.
- JavaScript Reference: A decent javascript reference.
- JavaSript Bootcamp Tutorial: Amy Hoy posted her source code and slides from a JavaScript Bootcamp.
- Introduction to Data Modeling: Database Design Info
- Color Combos: A handy site for the aid in developing color combinations
- Internet Bodies Guide: A guide to the largest Internet bodies
- Eric Meyer - what doesn't he know?: MeyerWeb
- CSS Zen Garden: CSS Zen Garden
- Google pays homage to OS X Dock: Google X uses a dock effect
- Dojo Javascript Toolkit: Dojo is an Open Source Javascript Toolkit.
- Developing Dashboard Widgets: An overview from Apple
- FrontPage CSS Discuss: FrontPage CSS Discuss CSS Reference page
- Don't Click It: Forget what you know about interfaces
- Flow Charts: Flow chart design basics
- Email Standards Project: Working to help improve standards support for HTML Email
- Firefoxy: Replace those icky Firefox form widgets
- Designing: A javascript bookmarklet that provides useful tools directly within the browser window
- Git -> SVN Crash Course: A few helpful things for SVN users working with GIT.
- Google Maps Revealed: Under the hood of Google Maps
- Google Maps vs. Microsoft Virtual Earth: A side by side comparison of the two mapping technologies
- Customize Google: Use Firefox and Greasemonkey to customize Google
- Google Maps: Google Maps - Map different
- Google adds wildcards: Google adds wildcards to its searching
- Degradeable PNG Transparency: A fix for using Javascript with PNGs for IE
- Dean Edwards: IE7: Some Internet Explorer Hacks
- jQuery.jStore: Persistent storage engine written with JavaScript/jQuery. I was thinking about doing something myself, but after seeing how large this library is I'm glad that I can just use this ;)
- Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess: Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess
- CocoaMySQL for MySQL 4.1: CocoaMySQL for MySQL 4.1+
- A Guide to CSS Support in Email: Campaign Monitor posts a very informative article about CSS compatability in web based and application based email clients.
- MySQL Workbench: A program designed by MySQL AB as a visual MySQL database designer. Create the table structure and criteria then export your database creation script. Love it.
- Another Web Dev List: Bobby Van Der Slui's big link list
- NYPL Style Guide: The world famous NYPL Style Guide
- Aqua Data Studio: Full database management and visual query building in one slick application
- NYPHP GD online Resource: NYPHP GD Tutorial - don't leave without bookmarking it
- AJAX Info: Javascript XMLHTTPRequest and XML resource site
- Nomadic Functions: A collection of useful javascripts meant for public use
- Accessible JavaScript: Make it friendly
- No Float Inline Lists: Stu Nichols shows us how to make a horizontal list without floats
- Nifty Corners: Round those corners with no images
- A Tribute to CSS Selectors: CSS Selectors intro
- Acid2 Test: Test your browser's support of modern standards
- Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla: How to make Internet Explorer-specific Web applications work in Mozilla-based browsers
- Koders: Search engine for code...
- Cheat Sheets: I Love Jack Daniels offers cheat sheets for download.
- ListTutorial: ListTutorial
- Carrington Theme: A WordPress theme framework that aids in rapid and flexible theme development.
- Cetus Links: Cetus Links: OOP related link archive
- Chris Shiflett: Chris Shiflett talks about php security
- Little Boxes CSS Layout Guide: Little Boxes - aren't they cute?
- O'Reilly Code Search: Search through every line of code that O'Reilly books have published
- 456 Berea Street - Web Design Blog: 456 Berea Street
- JRX: A real time Javascript RegEx editor
- Browser Speed Comparisons: A nice comparison of Internet Browser rendering speeds
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