Here are some links I find useful, or just frequent a lot. In no particular order…
- http://www.phpbb.com/
- phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. Based on the powerful PHP server language and supports MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers.
- http://area51.phpbb.com/
- Home to development of phpBB Group products including phpBB and phpBB Portal. Here you will find notes on development, transcripts of recent developer meetings, guides on coding styles and APIs, et cetera.
- http://www.w3.org/
- The World Wide Web Consortium develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
- http://validator.w3.org/
- The World Wide Web Consortium’s MarkUp Validation Service; a free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
- http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
- The World Wide Web Consortium’s CSS Validation Service to compliment it’s MarkUp Validation Service
- http://www.mozilla.org/
- Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. They coordinate the development and testing of the browser by providing discussion forums, software engineering tools, releases and bug tracking.
- http://www.php.net/
- PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into (X)HTML.
- http://www.apache.org/
- The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The most well known project being the Apache HTTP Server Project.
- http://www.csszengarden.com/
- Dave Shea’s sister site giving a live demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.
- http://gallery.theopalgroup.com/selectoracle/
- English & Spanish translations of CSS2 and CSS3 selectors. Helping further the cause of understanding standards!
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/
- “Biting the hands that feed IT”. A curious mix of Information Technology and Tabloid journalism. Also affectionately known as “El Reg” or “Vulture Central”.
- http://www.theinquirer.net/
- Ran by ex-Register Mike Magee. Rumour central, but he has got things ratherly spookily right in the past…
- http://www.2cpu.com/
- The one stop source for everything SMP because two are better than one! Loads of well written reviews and articles, it doesn’t get much better than this.
- http://www.realworldtech.com/
- Real World Technologies is an independent professional organization dedicated to providing articles and whitepapers from knowledgable researchers and professionals for the purpose of improving the fundamental understanding of computer related technology for engineers, scientists and enthusiasts.
- http://www.tech-report.com/
- A source for the latest on personal computing technology and culture, with running news commentary as it happens, regular opinion columns, frank reviews, and in-depth tech articles on the hottest new PC hardware.
- http://www.aceshardware.com/
- Ace’s Hardware is one of the best computing technology sites on the Internet. Though new articles are relatively infrequent, when there are, they are extremely indepth and informative.
- http://www.xbitlabs.com/
- Offers regularly updated news wire alongside with detailed reviews of the newest products and provide in-depth info on many acute topics dealing with PC hardware trends and technologies.
- http://www.mikeshardware.co.uk/
- Michael Warner keeps us up to date with hardware and software roadmaps. There is also a “System Recommendations” guide from a UK perspective.
- http://xxx.lanl.gov/
- Hardcore Academia. An arXiv mirror at the Los Alamos National Laboratory providing an e-print service in the fields of Physics, Mathematics, Non-Linear Science, Computer Science, and Quantitative Biology.
- http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
- NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day” Archive.
- http://www.wikipedia.org/
- Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by the various readers. The project was started on January 15, 2001 and is a WikiWiki, meaning that anyone, you included, can edit any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every Wikipedia article except for a few protected pages.
