geek resources
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Binary/Decimal conversion:
Short binary/decimal conversion lesson
Binary/Decimal conversion
HTML/XHTML:
HTML/XHTML templates
HTML tutorial on w3schools
HTML/XHTML validator
Web colors
Link Checker
XML:
Web and XML Glossary
CSS:
The CSS Spec from W3C
CSS for web designers
Web designer, Petr Staníček's favorites
CSS validator
XRAY :: for web developers
Browser support of CSS
CSS support chart
CSSTidy
The following CSS references are courtesy of Head First Labs:
- CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
- Graphic artists create some fantastic designs for Zen Garden by only changing the CSS.
- A List Apart
- Explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.
- css/edge
- Eric A. Meyer's CSS site with a selection of examples.
- CSS Beauty
- A showcase of well-designed CSS based websites from around the world. It's a great place to find inspiration for your own designs.
- CSS Vault
- Another great site to explore for inspiration. It also has links to articles about CSS design.
- Listamatic
- Everything you ever wanted to know about how to style lists.
- Position is Everything
- If you want to try a new layout using CSS, this is a good place to start. This site has just about everything you'll need for a variety of different layouts, including the workarounds you'll need for buggy browsers.
Graphics:
Color Scheme Generator 2
Create a color scheme!
free icons | more free icons
free bullets
comparison of graphics file formats
Python:
Show Me Do
Beginner's Guide to Python
Non-programmer's Tutorial for Python
Learning to Program
Python tutorial - Guido
Python dot org /doc
How to Thinking Like a Computer Scientist
Dive into Python
Python documentation conventions
C++:
C++ resource
Java:
Show Me Do
Java glossary
Java Ranch: a friendly place for Java greenhorns!
Java™ Platform, Standard Edition 6 API Specification
Head First Java code samples
C#:
C# tutorial
Scheme:
Concrete Abstractions
: An Introduction to Computer Science | Accompanying code
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Shell Scripting:
Show Me Do
A-Z index of the Linux BASH command line
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
Getting Started with awk
Editors:
The Mug of vi
vi reference
vi tutorial and advanced features
.vimrc file
<oXygen/> XML editor | <oXygen/> XML editor documentation
DocBook and XSL/XSLT:
DocBook XSL
DocBook: The Definitive Guide
XSLT 1.0
Build DocBook XML in Eclipse