i'm not this clever yet (to play with later)

FacebookTwitter

Getting Real

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php Here are the 16 chapters and 91 essays that make up the book. Introduction chapter 1 What is Getting Real? A smaller, faster, better way to build software About 37signals Our small team creates simple, focused software Caveats, disclaimers, and other preemptive strikes Responses to some complaints we hear
http://www.lateralcode.com/text-replacement-with-cufon/ By Patrick Lin For a very long time, the web was filled with very plain fonts. Unpleased with this lack of variety, a group of developers invented sIFR , which used Javascript and Flash to replace boring text with lively fonts. But sIFR had a problem: not everyone liked or used Flash.

Text replacement with Cufón

Stanford University is now expanding computer science courses available online, for free, for any students who wish to join. It all began a few weeks ago with an introductory course on artificial intelligence (AI) taught by the award-winning professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig . Now, two new courses are available; the first, an Introduction to Databases taught by Professor Jennifer Widom ; the second, Machine Learning with Professor Andrew Ng . Over 100,000 students have signed up since the courses were announced. Prospective students need only know one programming language well enough to complete the assignments.

Stanford Offers Online Computer Science Courses Free to All

http://www.geekosystem.com/free-stanford-courses/
Useful Online Tools

Free Books

A lot of people keep asking about a good list of programming books. Hence, we are building this list to save your time and to spread the knowledge. Some of these books will definitely help us to evolve our coding skills and thought processes for developing better solutions. We will do our best to keep updating this list, hope you find this list useful, here we go. http://qink.net/page/The-Ultimate-List-of-Freely-Available-Programming-Books.aspx
Online Generators for Web Designers can be a great way to save time in your web design projects. High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Online generator are those tools that help us to create those popular “XHTML valid” CSS banners, micro buttons or css website templates in seconds. In such cases online generators can be of great help which do the necessary job and some tools don’t have to be downloaded also. We all know that backgrounds play a crucial role in a design.

40 Online Generators for Web Designers Should Bookmark

http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/03/40-online-generators-for-web-designers-should-bookmark.html

15 sites web developers and designers should know

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/15-sites-web-developers-and-designers-should-know ColorCombos When designing a website, one of the firsts (and most important) steps of the process is to choose a color scheme. Color Combos allow you to browse thousand of different colors combinations for getting inspired for your upcomming design. Color schemes can be browsed by colors. Visit colorcombos.com
http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

Debugging is the cornerstone of being a programmer. The first meaning of the verb to debug is to remove errors, but the meaning that really matters is to see into the execution of a program by examining it . A programmer that cannot debug effectively is blind. Idealists that think design, or analysis, or complexity theory, or whatnot, are more fundamental are not working programmers.
http://www.aagneyam.com/blog/?p=466

70 Things Every Computer Geek Should Know. | Arrow Webzine

The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field.

Get Started!

http://www.guidetoprogramming.com/joomla153/beginning-programming-tutorials/11-get-started administrator Beginning Programming Tutorials C++ is a very common programming language, and a good language to start learning basic concepts with. I'm not going to say that it is the best language for a new programmer to try to master. If you asked 10 different programmers that question, you'd likely get 5 different answers. Usually, people reccomend whatever they find most useful.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/thebeebs/archive/2010/11/10/how-to-create-an-awesome-scrolling-navigation-using-jquery.aspx?WT.mc_id=soc-f-gb-loc-tar-Q4

thebeebs | How to Create an Awesome Scrolling Navigation using jQuery

I was looking over the .net award nominees this week and stumbled across the flipboard.com website. I loved the scrolling navigation so much I just had to open up visual studio and try and recreate it myself. Demo View Demo