General Hacker Stuff

O'Reilly Network Weblogs - A great collection of essays and pointers from the authors and editors at O'Reilly Publications.  Updated frequently, I check in several times a day.

ConTEXT - A very nice freeware programming text editor for Windows

UltimateZip - A good freeware archiving utility for Windows.

Course-Related Links

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - An organization of industry, government and academic representatives who determine the coding standards for the World Wide Web.  Everything you always wanted to know about HTML and related technologies flows from here.

Open Source Web Design - According to the description on the home page, this is "a community of designers and site owners freely sharing designs as well as design information."

Web Monkey - Plenty of references, tutorials and How-Tos at this colorful site.

W3Schools.com - The best things in life are free!  Tons of tutorials, examples, guides, you name it about you-know-what.

Beginning JavaScript Tutorials - Just what the sign says...

Tim Berners-Lee home page - The father of the World Wide Web himself.  Yes, he's still around and still working hard.

Dreamweaver Home - Tutorials, documentation and demos

CBT Dreamweaver Tutorials - More tutorials, this time from an outfit called CBT.  (For best results, you'll need Quicktime 5 or higher which is a free download for both Mac and Windows.)

DMX Zone - For hard-core Dreamweaver users.

Getting Started with Flash - The official Macromedia site.

Flash Tutorials  - More from CBT.  Like the previous CBT link, Quicktime is needed to fully experience these online tutorials.

The Web Standards Project - An independent organization of Web developers who are trying to convince Web site designers, browser developers and other folks to adhere to published Web standards.  (It may sound dull, but it's a good site.)

Information Architecture Tutorial - brought to you from the good folks at WebMonkey

Mozilla 1.x Demos - Links to several impressive demonstrations of what you can do with a Web browser that adheres to open, published standards.

Java Boutique - A busy page with lots of free Java applets and applications you can use.

Web Development DevCenter - A nice site from O'Reilly Publishing. This is where you can learn about going beyond simple HTML. Some of the articles and tutorials are a little 'tech-y' but if you're using tools like Flash, JavaScript and GoLive, you might want to give them a look-see.

JavaScript World - The companion site for our text "JavaScript For The World Wide Web". You can download all of the scripts used in the textbook here. (2.8 MB Zip file)

Organizations/Projects

General Resources

CPUniverse - If you were thinking of going into contracting or consulting, this is a great site. Affiliated with Contract Professional magazine (not a free subscription but well worth the cost) this site has tips on the hottest skill areas, what it's like to work indifferent parts of the country and even how to negotiate a contract and handle your tax situation. There's even a free weekly e-mail newsletter.

SoftPro Books - This is an excellent source for computer and networking books. You can order online or go to one of their local stores. (They have one at Yosemite and Arapahoe in Englewood and another in Boulder.) You can usually get 10-20% off the list price and if you join their 'frequent shoppers' club (it's free) you can get additional savings. 

GoCertify - A nice site that has information on just about every technical certification you can get -- who offers it, what you need to get it, where you can get training and where/how you can take the test.

BrainBench - Another certification site, but this one does their own online certification exams in a wide variety of technical subjects.

Yahoo! Briefcase - 30 megabytes of free online storage.  Floppies are awkward and obsolete! (Requires free Yahoo! account)

Google Images - A good site just got better.  Search for images from all over the Internet.

Online References

Google - THE best search engine out there for the technically inclined. 

Just for Fun

User Friendly - Yet another comic strip that looks at the funny side of computing.

Computer Stupidities - This site collects actual dialogues between real users and real tech support folk. The range of misunderstandings and confusion is frequently hilarious.

Peter's Evil Overlord List - Thinking about a career as an Evil Overlord? Think you have what it takes to be the next Darth Vader? Check out this site for a collection of SuperVillain Do's and Don'ts including 'My ventilation shafts will be too small to crawl through'.

The Voice Actor Page - Want to know who does the voice of Larry 3000 on Time Squad?  Find the answer to this and many more questions about the men and women who do the talking for your favorite cartoon characters.  Search alphabetically by show title or actor name.  (By the way, Larry is voiced by none other than Mark Hamill.) 

Villian Supplies - Planning an evil scheme to take over the world, but need parts for your death ray?  This hilarious site has entries for everything from henchman to hidden volcano lairs.

Stupid Plot Tricks - Expanding on the Evil Overlord lists, this contains lists of rules for henchman, good guys/gals, bad guys/gals and even sidekicks.  Very funny read.

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics - This site examines many popular movies to see if the action is in line with real physical laws.  An interesting, entertaining and even educational read.

The Invisible Library - Dedicated to books that don't exist but should.
 

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