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Inside look at Google. Interesting insights into the life of an engineer. #
Painless Software Schedules. Practical methods for estimating and executing programming deadlines. #
Bypass Authentication on Authenticated Wireless Networks. #
Answers to Technical Interview Questions. #
Mastering recursive programming. #
Beyond Relational Databases. #
Enterprise Ruby On Rails. The beginnings of the book are posted online. #
How To Crack Wireless Networks, Part 1. And Part Deux. #
Sets in Javascript. This is an interesting syntactical trick in Javascript using the in operator. #
How to develop a stable, pre-forking HTTP daemon in Perl. #
How a Bookmaker and a Whiz Kid Took On an Extortionist — and Won. This is a well-written and fascinating article. #
Oberkampf. Flickr Tools for local custom galleries. #
Generic Form Validation Routine. Using accessible Javascript. #
Developing Dashboard Widgets. #
Javascript Effects. This will be a useful resource. #
Lickr. A great implementation of GreaseMonkey that extends the annotation features of Flickr. #
Create Sparklines with Photoshop. Sparklines are small, word-like graphics from Edward Tufte. #
Drag-and-drop Sortable Lists with JavaScript and CSS. #
Adding breakpoints in Javascript. This has potential. It definitely beats alert(). #
PyMusique. The fair interface to the Itunes Music Store. #
Installing Ruby, Rails, and FastCGI on OSX. #
Drag & Drop Javascript DHTML Library. #
A HOWTO on Optimizing PHP with tips and methodologies. #
Ajax Working Examples. XMLHTTPRequest in action in the real world. #
SAJAX. A XMLHTTPRequest (Ajax) Toolkit for PHP #
Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse. #
Four days on Rails A useful tutorial on this web development platform that bridges the ever-existing programming gap between ignorance and experience. #
Many-to-Many. Why modern tagging a la delicious is a good thing. #
Rolling with Ruby on Rails. Mojavi is the closest thing to Rails for PHP. #
MySQL Gotchas. A useful resource with many things I was not aware of. I mean, of which I was not aware. #
DOMCollapser. Javascript library that automates "collapsing" elements of an HTML document. #
jslint: The JavaScript Verifier. Check Javascript code for anomalies and (potential) weaknesses. #
Google Suggest Javascript, Reloaded. Re-formatted for your viewing pleasure. #
XMLHttpRequest for The Masses. #
Adam Bosworth's KISS. Keep it Simple, Stupid. A great essay on the importance of simplicity in software design. #
OSX file access in real-time. I had never heard of fs_usage before today. For example, sudo fs_usage -e -f filesystem | grep -v CACHE_HIT | grep -v grep | grep -v Terminal | grep open displays all files being opened on the filesystem. #
Create an OS X disk image from the CLI. A useful series of steps using the hdiutil utility. #
Paparazzi. Resolution-independent screenshot capture. #
New functions available in PHP5. #
Numerical Recipes in C. I am a total hack compared to the sophisticated code to be found here. Well worth reading. #
Seven habits of highly effective Vimming. Well worth the read, although I have some issues with the guy's haircut. #
Vim Quick Reference. Whether or not you want to (I do), you need to understand how to use vi quickly and efficiently if you do anything nixey. #
Programming epigrams. My favorites: "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons." "It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one." "Everything should be built top-down, except the first time." #
Clipboard Sharing. This is a neat idea. #
A useful image gallery tool. Ryan pored over most of the utilities out there. This is the one he chose. #
Basecamp Source. The framework (in Ruby) behind the Basecamp web application. #
History of Unix and C. This is a very interesting read. #
Latin Perl. Some people have way too much time on their hands. #
Ruby Documentation. Well-written documentation on this intriguing language. #
Threading messages. Well-tested algorithm for grouping messages in parent-child relationships. #
Become a great programmer by... learning assembly language. Yeah, right. #