How to Take Your First Coding Project from Start to Finish
I've used various versions of Windows for years, Linux in various flavours for another few years, and OS X for about 2-3 years total. I'm now a convert to OS X (though proudly not part of the cult of Mac — I enjoy the OS, I don't want Jobs' offspring) for general desktop use, switching to Windows for gaming. I find app quality is generally significantly higher on OS X than Windows (and certainly Linux). Do note the word "generally" — some of this stuff is cross-platform and in some cases Windows offers something better! The UNIX core and bash are very important to me. User experience also plays a large part. Then there are the extras, like the *virtual* immunity to malware. Unfortunately, like many things in fierce competition, most people seem to pick a side when they should instead be looking at the options and evaluating whatever it is that suits them best.
The Datomic Information Model
Datomic is a new database designed as a composition of simple services. It strives to strike a balance between the capabilities of the traditional RDBMS and the elastic scalability of the new generation of redundant distributed storage systems. Motivations Datomic seeks to accomplish the following goals: Provide for a sound information model, eschewing update-in-place Leverage redundant, scalable storage systems Provide ACID transactions and consistency Enable declarative data programming in applications Datomic considers a database to be an information system, where information is a set of facts, and facts are things that have happened. Traditional databases (and many new ones!) It's interesting to consider why keeping active history is even in question. A database is a database in large part due to the leverage it provides over the data. Structure and Representation Every database has a fundamental unit at the bottom of its model, e.g. a relation, row or document. Schemas :person/name Query
CSS buttons
You know that there are a lot of impressive and awesome things out there that were made using CSS, we all know that, but sometimes they’re hard to find, so today we’re bringing you some of the best buttons we’ve found, they all were made using CSS, here you’ll be able to see a demo for those beauties, as well as the HTML and CSS code. Free Buttons There are many awesome designers and web developers out there, but few of them are eager to share their work for free, so first of all, let us thank the people who made the work that we’re bringing you today, and let us start by reviewing what they did. Space CaCSS By Simurai Simple fading By Bartos Lazarski Fading google button box By Bartos Lazarski Blue buttons By Jared Tomeck Animated download glass button By Kushagra Agarwal Dark buttons By John Shammas Glassy buttons By John Shammas Another CSS3D button By François Robichet Push-able buttons By Johnie Hjelm (improved by Csscreations ) Add to cart buttons By Bartos Lazarski BonBon buttons By Simurai
HTML 101
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the lingua franca of the Web – a simple document syntax in which all of the web's 63 billion pages are written. HTML is not a programming language per se', but a markup language – a way of marking up plain text documents so that Web browsers know which parts of a page are paragraphs, which parts are bold or italic, which parts are tables, etc. Even if a web site is driven by a complicated database-backed content management system, it still must return simple HTML (and media files) to the end user's web browser for display. Thus, it's valuable to know some HTML even if your day job involves working with a content management system – knowing HTML will help you do more within the constraints of your system, and will help you fix things that are broken. Don't be intimidated – it's simple to learn basic HTML, and you can pick it up as you go, building up your skills to eventually include more advanced formatting and styling with Cascading Style Sheets.
The Car Repairs You Can (Seriously) Do Yourself, Despite Your Abilities
Replacing belts is not something you just swap, at least on newer cars. On only cars, like early 80s or older, it was feasible. With cars from that era there was often a lot of room within the engine bay. On anything from the 90s on the bay is so cramped that you're going to have to do a lot of dismantling to get at belts. And if you're looking at swapping the timing belt then on some cars you might even have to lift the engine. The first thing anyone considering to work on their car should do is buy a service manual. Brakes are relatively easy to do, but it's obviously a critical component on the car and there are things you need to keep in mind.
svgweb - Scalable Vector Graphics for Web Browsers using Flash
Overview SVG Web is a JavaScript library which provides SVG support on many browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Using the library plus native SVG support you can instantly target ~95% of the existing installed web base. Once dropped in you get partial support for SVG 1.1, SVG Animation (SMIL), Fonts, Video and Audio, DOM and style scripting through JavaScript, and more in a small library. This project is currently in Beta stage development. It should also be noted that while Google has contributed to this project, Google is not providing support for this project. One Minute Intro Demos More demos can be seen with the demo viewer; keep in mind that not all of the demos in the demo viewer work. Getting Started A Quick Start guide is available to get going fast. Also, if you are using SVG Web in your own project please add yourself to the ProjectsUsingSVGWeb page! Videos What's New February 3rd, 2011: New Release! A new SVG Web release is out, code named Lurker Above.
The CSS Gallery List - Submission Made Easy
Learn Web Design: 50+ of the Best Online Educational Resources to Learn to Build Web Sites
Tutorials & Guides Free or Low Cost Keep your hard-earned dollars in your pocket Text-Based Good for those who like to learn via reading and see text code examples Shay Howe's Guides to HTML & CSS Shay Howe bundles HTML and CSS into one learning block that is beginner-friendly and well organized. Those who have the basics can continue with his advanced guide, which expands the concepts previously learned and specifically aims to help designers broaden and shore up their HTML, CSS and jQuery skills. HTML 101 at Berkeley Knight Digital Media Center While this resource is provided by a very credible source, its intended audience is not hardcore developers but career journalists and communication professionals. Web Development for Beginners from WebPlatform Web Development for Beginners is a survey of the essential skills necessary for a web developer to be able to execute code efficiently and effectively, even with little to no skill. The HTML & CSS Book from Wiley Books Online Courses Codecademy
