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- */?><div id="topNav"><ul><li><a href="#1">Programming</a>
- <ul><li><a href="#4">Delphi</a>
- </li>
- <li><a href="#14">Haskell</a>
- </li>
- <li><a href="#2">Java</a>
- </li>
- <li><a href="#3">PHP</a>
- </li>
- <li><a href="#6">XHTML and CSS</a>
- </li>
- <li><a href="#5">XML and XSL</a>
- </li>
- </ul></li><li><a href="#7">Linux</a>
- <ul><li><a href="#8">Fedora</a>
- </li>
- </ul></li><li><a href="#9">Entertainment</a>
- <ul><li><a href="#10">Comics</a>
- </li>
- <li><a href="#11">Games</a>
- <ul><li><a href="#13">Darkfall</a>
- </li>
- <li><a href="#12">The Legend of Zelda</a>
- </li>
- </ul></li>
- </ul></li></ul></div><div id="linksbody"><div class="depth1"><a name="1"></a><h2>Programming</h2>
- Various links concerning different scripting and programming languages, along with useful tools.<ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/">Dia</a><span class="linkDescription">A nice tool to make diagrams with. Especially good when combined with Dia2Code (http://dia2code.sourceforge.net/).</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://dia2code.sourceforge.net/">Dia2Code</a><span class="linkDescription">A useful tool to convert Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) UML diagram to bare bone code.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://nehe.gamedev.net/">NeHe Productions</a><span class="linkDescription">Lots and lots of OpenGL tutorials. Most tutorials' source code can be downloaded in a verity of different programming languages including, but certainly not limited to, C++, Java (LWJGL and JOGL) and Delphi.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a><span class="linkDescription">Subversion is a version control program, it's very similar to good old CVS. Any programming project, big or small, benefits from running these kind of tools. It is generally fast to set up but will save you tons of time when something goes wrong and you have to check what you might have changed to cause the error. Not to mention that it's invaluable when programming with others on the same project.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/xmlrpc-howto/xmlrpc-howto.html">XML-RPC howto</a><span class="linkDescription">A useful site when implementing XML-RPC in a language that you're unfamiliar with. It contains code examples for most of the common languages.</span></li>
- </ul>
- <div class="depth2"><a name="4"></a><h3>Delphi</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/index.html">Delphi Basics</a><span class="linkDescription">Contains all the basic information about the most commonly used things in Delphi. It's a great place for beginners and a good reference when you forget something.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.delphipages.com/threads/">Delphi Pages</a><span class="linkDescription">Contains a good forum where you are bound to find the answer to a lot of questions by just looking through the archive.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.infojet.cz/program/delphi/tips/">Delphi Tips</a><span class="linkDescription">Some different tips about things that you might have use for one day.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://glscene.sourceforge.net/index.php">GLScene</a><span class="linkDescription">OpenGL for Delphi, great if you want to create games or any other program using 3D graphics.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.madshi.net/">Madshi Tools</a><span class="linkDescription">A collection of some excellent tools, mainly for hooking into other programs.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.greatis.com/delphicb/tips/lib/tips.html">Tips & Tricks</a><span class="linkDescription">A lot of tips and tricks that are nice to know of.</span></li>
- </ul>
- </div><div class="depth2"><a name="14"></a><h3>Haskell</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/~afie/haskell/tourofprelude.html">A Tour of the Haskell Prelude</a><span class="linkDescription">Contains explanations, definitions and examples of all functions defined in the prelude. Very handy if one is not that familiar with the language.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.haskell.org/">The Haskell Home Page</a><span class="linkDescription">The official Haskell page. The page contains a lot of useful links and resources for Haskell.</span></li>
- </ul>
- </div><div class="depth2"><a name="2"></a><h3>Java</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/index.html">API specification for J2SE 1.5 (5.0)</a><span class="linkDescription">The official API specification, with a lot of documentation. It's the most essential site I know of when programming in Java.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/">Apache Ant</a><span class="linkDescription">Much like CVS/SVN I consider this a must for every project, big or small. Ant is a simple XML based script language that saves a lot of time. I generally use it to compile my programs, bundle class files into a JAR file, then into ZIP files with their readmes and then regenerate the javadoc and make a source distribution, all with one click.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/index.html">Apache XML-RPC</a><span class="linkDescription">The best Java implementation of XML-RPC that I know of.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.centerkey.com/java/browser/">Bare Bones Browser Launch for Java</a><span class="linkDescription">It is a really handy piece of code that opens the native browser on many different platforms.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse</a><span class="linkDescription">In my opinion the best Java IDE today. Especially as I can use the same program for other languages too.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.javacoding.net/articles/technical/java-mysql.html">How to use MySQL in Java</a><span class="linkDescription">Being able to use a database like MySQL is always good, especially when making servers in Java.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html">J2SE 5.0 New Features</a><span class="linkDescription">A good place if you are about to make the jump from 1.4.2 to 1.5 (or 5.0 if you want to make marketing happy). Contains in depth descriptions of all changes and provides examples of most useful new things.</span></li>
- <li><a href="https://jogl.dev.java.net/">JOGL - OpenGL for Java</a><span class="linkDescription">A vast library for using OpenGL in Java. Useful for making hardware accelerated 2D and 3D games.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/">Java Tutorials</a><span class="linkDescription">A place with a lot of nice tutorials about the basic things that one might want to do with Java. Plenty of code examples and in depth coverage.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://grexengine.com/sections/externalgames/articles-content.html">Making games in Java</a><span class="linkDescription">A good place to start if one is interested in making games using Java. The site contains useful tutorials about accelerated graphics and network programming.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php">PircBot - Java IRC Bot Framework</a><span class="linkDescription">An easy to use framework for creating IRC bots when needed.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/">Processing XML with Java</a><span class="linkDescription">A lot of in depth information about XML and Java. It also includes info about XML-RPC, SOAP, XSL and other useful things. A very good site in my opinion.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://javaalmanac.com/">The Java Developers Almanac 1.4</a><span class="linkDescription">Lots and lots of code examples of all kinds of operations. If you're unsure about what support there is in Java for a specific operation then searching there is a good start.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.rolemaker.dk/nonRoleMaker/javalauncher/marner_java_launcher.htm">The Marner Java Launcher</a><span class="linkDescription">A simple launcher that allows one to use exe files to launch Java programs in Windows (to make programs appear more familiar to Windows users). The launcher can also be used to pass arguments to the JVM when needed.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.cokeandcode.com/info/webstart-howto.html">WebStart Walthrough</a><span class="linkDescription">A small but good walkthrough to distributing programs using Sun's WebStart.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://jpcap.sourceforge.net/">jpcap - a network packet capture library</a><span class="linkDescription">A good library for capturing and analyzing network packets with Java. </span></li>
- </ul>
- </div><div class="depth2"><a name="3"></a><h3>PHP</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">Apache HTTP Server</a><span class="linkDescription">The best server software I know of, and it's open-source.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://forums.devshed.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5">Dev Shed Forums</a><span class="linkDescription">A good place to find answers. Chances are that someone has asked the exact same question before so please use the search functionality before posting the question.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/">MySQL Reference Manual</a><span class="linkDescription">It's common to use MySQL when working with PHP, so here is the reference manual. It contain ample amounts of documentation for every operation.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/">PHP Manual</a><span class="linkDescription">By far the best resource I know for PHP. It contains information about everything in PHP, including the overwhelming amount of functions.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://phpeclipse.de/">PHPeclipse</a><span class="linkDescription">A decent PHP plugin for eclipse. There's still some way to go but I'm sure it will only get better and better.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Using-XMLRPC-with-PHP/">Using XML-RPC with PHP</a><span class="linkDescription">A good article with the basics about setting up an XML-RPC client and server using PHP.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/programming/php/index.html">Webmonkey PHP tutorials</a><span class="linkDescription">Contains some decent articles for the beginner.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.phpbb.com/">phpBB</a><span class="linkDescription">An highly customizable open source bulletin board package. It's free and it's really good, very nice when one wants a forum without having to worry about funding or ads.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.phpdoc.org/">phpDocumentor</a><span class="linkDescription">A utility for creating documentation for PHP pages. This is the program that I use when generating documentation. The syntax for the documentation blocks is very similar to javadoc, one just has to learn a few new tags.</span></li>
- </ul>
- </div><div class="depth2"><a name="6"></a><h3>XHTML and CSS</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.alistapart.com/">A List Aparat</a><span class="linkDescription">Contains a lot of really good articles about webdesign, often related to XHTML and CSS.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp">CSS2 Reference</a><span class="linkDescription">The place to go when in doubt about a CSS property.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.htmldog.com/guides/">HTML Dog Guides</a><span class="linkDescription">Guides that covers a lot of the basics of XHTML and CSS along with good practices. It's a good place to start when learning either language.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/">W3C Recommendations - XHTML</a><span class="linkDescription">Just about everything you ever wanted to know about XHTML.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_reference.asp">XHTML Reference</a><span class="linkDescription">A good resource when you can't quite remember what attributes a certain tag takes.</span></li>
- </ul>
- </div><div class="depth2"><a name="5"></a><h3>XML and XSL</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/">W3C Recommendations - XML</a><span class="linkDescription">Just about everything you ever wanted to know about XML.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt">W3C Recommendations - XSL</a><span class="linkDescription">Just about everything you ever wanted to know about XSL.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp">W3Schools - XML Tutorial</a><span class="linkDescription">A good tutorial on XML.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/">W3Schools - XSLT Tutorial</a><span class="linkDescription">A good tutorial on XSLT.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/index.html">XSL-List</a><span class="linkDescription">Contains a lot of discussions about XSL. If you have a question then the answer might be found here.</span></li>
- </ul>
- </div></div><div class="depth1"><a name="7"></a><h2>Linux</h2>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/html/lnag.html">Linux Newbie Administrator Guide</a><span class="linkDescription">Do you want to switch to Linux but are not really sure that you can handle it? If so then read this guide and hopefully you will feel a bit more confident afterwards.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.winehq.org/">Wine</a><span class="linkDescription">A way to emulate Windows applications in your Linux enviorment.</span></li>
- </ul>
- <div class="depth2"><a name="8"></a><h3>Fedora</h3>
- The Fedora Project is the free descendant of Red Hat Linux. Comprised entirely of open source software.<ul>
- <li><a href="http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html">Fedora Core 4 Installation Notes</a><span class="linkDescription">Excellent installation notes for Fedora Core 4. </span></li>
- <li><a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/">Fedora Project</a><span class="linkDescription">A descendant of Red Hat Linux. The project's goal is to create a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software.</span></li>
- </ul>
- </div></div><div class="depth1"><a name="9"></a><h2>Entertainment</h2>
- Something to do when tired of programming.<div class="depth2"><a name="10"></a><h3>Comics</h3>
- Some excellent webcomics that are updated at varius intervals.<ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.missmab.com/">Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures</a><span class="linkDescription">This comic has very good art and storyline. Almost every update makes me smile, which is a lot more than I can say about most comics. Updated three times a week.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript">The Order of the Stick</a><span class="linkDescription">A very funny comic, especially if you have ever played Dungeons & Dragons. Updates three times a week.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://69.57.151.222/index.html">WTF Comics</a><span class="linkDescription">A comic based on the game Everquest. I'm not sure how funny it is if you have never played Everquest. It's quite amazing to watch the improvements in the art from the first comic. Updated sporadically.</span></li>
- </ul>
- </div><div class="depth2"><a name="11"></a><h3>Games</h3>
- I don't play a lot of games these days, so this section might be a bit thin.<div class="depth3"><a name="13"></a><h4>Darkfall</h4>
- A promising MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) that looks capable of bringing back the free world that I enjoyed in the old Ultima Online.<ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.dfcrafters.com/">Darkfall Crafters</a><span class="linkDescription">Will hopefully contain a lot of information about crafting when the game launches.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.darkfallonline.com/">Darkfall Online</a><span class="linkDescription">The official website. Contains a lot of lore and an active forum.</span></li>
- </ul>
- </div><div class="depth3"><a name="12"></a><h4>The Legend of Zelda</h4>
- One of the few games that I look forward to playing every time a sequel is announced. A perfect mix of puzzles, story and relaxation.<ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.zeldalegends.net/">Zelda Legends</a><span class="linkDescription">Everything one might want to know about the games, gathered in one place.</span></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.zelda.com/universe/">Zelda Universe</a><span class="linkDescription">The official site, contains the information that one might expect.</span></li>
- </ul>
- </div></div></div></div>