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Programming Quotes Some cool, not so cool, old and not so old quotes on programming
Good Guitar Pro resource Lots of free guitar pro files
Printliminator Quickly Make Any Page Print Nicely (jquery trick)
Worldpay Refunds adn remote admin via simple post requests
Confirmed! Google ignores meta tag keywords
favourite shots
Lower Largo beach
September 14, 2008
Looking East up the beach
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World of Warcraft
Stuff to do with my favourite computer game ever!
Signature Maker Generates those cool sigs you see some people use in forums
http://sigs.guildlaunch.net/
3D Armoury Warcraft Armoury in 3D - very well done
http://www.3darmory.com
Gemfinder Interactive Gemfinder that allows you to stack search filters.
http://wowgems.jponrails.com/
The New York Times Goes To China, Finds Farmers Of Gold This is a very nicely written article, really gets you into the gold farming lifestyle for the Chinese laborors who persue it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/magazine/17lootfarmers-t.html?ex=1182744000&en=4cbca201ab03268b&ei=5070&emc=eta1
You Should Be Dancin, Yeah! A clever video superimposing many of the WoW avatars dancing in the same shot as their real-life inspiration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=066_q4DIeqk
Miscellaneous
Stuff that doesn't really fit anywhere else (at the moment)
Good Guitar Pro resource Lots of free guitar pro files
http://www.guitarprosongs.com/
Galaxy Zoo If you like astronomy and stars etc you'll like this site: help to classify galaxies
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
Cool Artwork Here you'll find prints by up and coming "modern artists" which you buy. Some very nice work. Bargains to be had too (if you know your stuff)
http://www.picturesonwalls.com
Friends and aquaintances
Websites and homepage of friends. As you can see there ain't many of them ;-)
Stephanies homepage I guess she won't be wanting her mum to read this.
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MID=367137231&MemberId=752201981
Martins (aka zuqif) homepage Martin Robertsons homepage. This guy is a one off, hopefully that'll be reflected in his new site.
http://www.theqif.net/
Jordan Gecko On of my erstwhile workmates fancies himself as a high flying broker (or some such)
http://lean-investor.blogspot.com/
My interviewer from MottMac Check out the links to download his self penned music. Some of it is very prog rock.
http://www.digestif.co.uk/
Blair Millens homepage Blair is quite simply one of the most passionate Web Designers I know. Check out his page for some real design style!
http://doepud.tk
Security
Some call it security, some call it hacking. Whatever it's called I find it an interesting way to blow a couple of hours.
Google as a hackers tool Famous for his use of Google to hack badly implemented web servers. It's so easy, anybody can do it!
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com
Wanted dead or alive Microsoft offer reward to catch virus writers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7887577.stm
Introductory article on hacking Surpisingly this comes from the good old boys at IBM
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/security/library/s-crack/?dwzone=security
w00t! zomg! Microsoft's guide to "leetspeak".
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/leetspeak.mspx
Computers and IT
General IT and computer related content. Not specifically to with Software Development
Blazingly fast Flash Hard-drives Forget your old magnetic hard drives - flash drives are the wave of the future
http://www.sandisk.com/Oem/Default.aspx?CatID=1478
From Android to iPhone Make your Android enabled phone work like and iPhone at the click of an app
http://www.gphoneres.com/html/gphone-software/200902/18-178.html
UNetbootin Amazing utility which will create bootable images on flash drives from Linux ISOs
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Playlists on Nokia 6230i How to set up playlists on the Nokia 6230i to tracks from MMC
http://www.mobymemory.com/Content/creating.playlists.in.nokia.6230.to.play.songs.from.MMC.41.html
AI Pathfinding Article comparing waypoint graphs to navigation meshes for NPC movement in games
http://www.ai-blog.net/archives/000152.html
A genius in your own lifetime! Amaze your friends and workmates with automatically generated Computing Science papers (they'll never know)
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
Rysnc and Amazon S3 Automate backups to Amazon S3 using rsync
http://blog.eberly.org/2008/10/27/how-i-automated-my-backups-to-amazon-s3-using-rsync/
The Bileblog The thoughts and musings of an exceptionally foul mouthed (and funny) java programmer
http://www.jroller.com/page/fate
Magic Desk Seems the humble C64 beat Apple and MS to the familiar desktop environment
http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/adverts_commodore/magic_desk_compute_may84.jpg
How google works (kinda) An nice, interesting, easy to read blog article on how google works
http://blog.topix.net/archives/000016.html
Firefox 3 Location Bar Tweaks Twaeks and tips for the new Firefox 3 Location bar (Im still not sure if I like it)
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/9-tweaks-for-firefox-3s-location-bar/
Wubi Install Ubuntu as a Windoze app. Works just like a dual boot
http://wubi-installer.org/
WinZip alternative A fast, unobtrusive, alternative to Winzip. No nag messages etc.
http://www.zipgenius.it/
Revenge of the Developer A developer seems to have had enough of a user!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477454
AjaxTerm Ajax powered Web Based console
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AjaxTerm
More Power An academic paper on how google works - slightly heavy going but worth a read.
http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html
MoveOnBoot Cool little Windoze utility which queues files for deletion on boot. Handy for files which are permanently 'in use'.
www.softwarepatch.com/software/moveonboot.html
Football
Soccer related madness, tom-foolery and general nonsense (some of it might be serious too!)
Larsson at the Neu Camp The King of Kings in Barcelona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkxMrXzcelU
What do you expect from a pig..... ....but a grunt. The huns react to their Old Firm drubbing in time honoured fashion.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4457202.stm
The jungle If only Parkhead was like this
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1519658938197468600&q=orlando+pirates
Graham Spiers stuffs it to Murray It's no wonder old Tin Legs doesn't like the Herald very much. A Celtic minded journalist? Never!
http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/51101.html
Typical Huns This time the huns get it in the neck from UEFA after their fans caused trouble - what a surprise.
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/Keytopics/kind=512/newsId=402870.html
More hun bashing Now the Herald is stuffing it to them
http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/57832.html
What do you expect from a pig.... ....but a grunt. I like the bit where he malkies the doctor.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/57801.html
Photography
Favourite photographers, galleries and technique pages
Picnik Nice online image editor
http://www.picnik.com/
A Walk Through Durham Township One of the most inspirational photography websites/photoblogs I've found. I love the colours and tones in the images.
http://www.durhamtownship.com/
Charlie Waite This guy did the 'Seeing Scotland' photography program. Some of his work, which is mostly landscape, is stunning.
http://www.charliewaite.com/
Polarising Filters A nice, easy to read, article on polarizing filters. Some very good example images too.
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/filter/polarizer.html
Photoshop Tilt Shift How to get the Tilt Shift effect using photoshop
http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/03/27/photoshop-tilt-shift/
Lightbox View your photos in a pseudo flash style gallery (pure js)
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
Wild Wild Web
Curiosities that could only ever have been spawned by the net
Montage-a-google Create cool montages automatically using googles image search
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/
IPv4 Exhaustion Counter Omg we're running out of ipv4 addresses and this site tells you how fast
http://inetcore.com/project/ipv4ec/index_en.html
Study Ball It?s the ideal gadget for students who have trouble concentrating. This prison-style ball and chain with built-in timer will help you study.
http://www.curiosite.com/scripts/product/enproduct.php?idproducto=19126738
Einstein the parrot An amazingly smart bird and very funny too
http://www.koreus.com/media/smart-bird.html
Groovy timelapse of Panama Canal One week on the Panama Canal compressed into eleven minutes
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9040875966564826702
Ban Comic Sans Is it only young girls that use this "font" - I dunno but I know I hate it, especially in pink.
http://bancomicsans.com/
Cure for hiccups At last somebody has found a cure for hiccups! Dunno if I'd try it though..
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2299306&dopt=Abstract
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay The classic lumberjack sketch from Mony Python
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3721923663768138601&q=Monty+Python
Exploding toilet A grim tale of flying faeces
http://www.wcnc.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=52578&catId=69
Gansta Name Generator So, you want a gangsta name, huh, sucka? Type in your current boring-ass name and be re-dubbed
http://gangstaname.com/index.php
Craig David the Celtic fan Seems nobody likes poor old Rangers these days
http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=6411792621&
Masturbate for peace And you just thought it was bad for your eyesight.....
http://www.masturbateforpeace.com/
Online ejaculation "pole" And the stroke average is......
http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/shootout/index.cfm
Cool PC case Mods You think your PC is cool with yer crappy blue neon lights? Think again.
http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top-10-weirdest-case-mods/
Burn baby, burn A TMX Elmo does a Nikki Lauda impression!
http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro/article.html?in_article_id=31354&in_page_id=6
Google Mars Hot on the heels of Google Earth and Google Moon we now have Google Mars! How handy.
http://www.google.com/mars/
Musical orgasmatron iPod vibrator promises 'party in your pants'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/23/ipod_accessory/
PirateBay on trial (again) Pirate bay being taken to court by Sony et al again
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7892073.stm
Condoms for Dogs What I like about this the best is that they are "meat scented"
http://www.dogcondoms.com/
BBC pulls plug on Dalek lesbian romp flick Personally I don't see what the all the fuss is about
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/28/dalek_film/
Leeroy Jenkins The best laid plans....go sadly wrong in this World of Warcraft clip
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9070591500024177274&q=jenkins
Tub Girl Without doubt one of the grossest things I have ever seen
http://www.consumptionjunction.com/content/detail.asp?ID=52447
Whistle Blowers Wiki A site set up to encourage anonymous leaks of controversial government secrets (can't see it lasting too long)
http://www.wikileaks.org
Much much cheapness Need to get textbooks at over half-price off? Our friends in India make this possible
http://www.books-n-all.com/
Google maps of the moon If you zoom in close enough you'll be in for a surprise
http://moon.google.com
Think once, think twice, think bike Classic public information films from the seventies. These were the stuff of my childhood and I still remember them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4690164.stm
Development
Software Development, Technical Articles, Documentation and Resources
Ajax taglibs A bunch of very useful Ajax tabligs for use on your JSP
http://ajaxtags.sourceforge.net/
Virtual Vista For those moments when you really must have it
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en
Oracle XML DB Forum This forum provides you with an opportunity to discuss issues related to XML DB
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=34&start=0
Java/CORBA tutorial This short course will teach you how to use CORBA as found in the Java 2 platform
http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/corba/corba.html
Get JBoss to serve external dirs Wiki entry from JBoss detailing how to get the built-in Tomcat to serve external directories
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExternalDirectories
Firebug I can't believe I only found this yesterday. This has to be one of the top 3 Firefox plugin: A proper Javascript debugger!
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1843
Programming Quotes Some cool, not so cool, old and not so old quotes on programming
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes
Paging Oracle Results Sets Ask Tom article on paging Oracle Result sets using rownum
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:76812348057
ie-tab Firefox addon that allows you to open a tab using the IE rendering engine.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Flexible XML Framework for Java What else could it be but dom4j. Turns using Java and XML from a chore into something less than a chore
http://www.dom4j.org/
Java FileUpload A guy in work said to me that "jakarta commons has a component for everything". He was right.
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/fileupload/
Crontab quick reference Another page I return to again and again. Unix crontab for scheduling tasks.
http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm
Confirmed! Google ignores meta tag keywords
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html
Maven Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool, I like to think of it as Ant++
http://maven.apache.org/
Mocks aren't Stubs Article by Martin Fowler about testing. With particular emphasis on mocks and stubs
http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html#RegularTests
Unison file-synchronization Cool SSH based file-synchronization tool for Windoze and Unix. Works locally or over a network
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Worldpay Refunds adn remote admin via simple post requests
http://www.rbsworldpay.com/support/bg/reference/faqs/remote_postauth_and_refunds.html
Measureit Cool Firefox add-on that lets you draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/539
Set date and time on Linux I always forget the formatting....so some examples....
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/udate.htm#03
JBoss startup script Article on getting JBoss to start as a Linux service (from Wiki)
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=StartJBossOnBootWithLinux
J2SE 5.0 API Specifications The latest docs for J2SE. I've only really put this here cos I keep losing them
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/
EclEmma Eclipse Code Coverage Tool
http://www.eclemma.org/
Printliminator Quickly Make Any Page Print Nicely (jquery trick)
http://css-tricks.com/print-better-with-the-printliminator/
The mythical man month "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Libs from Yahoo. Some cracking free Javascript/DHTML from Yahoo - cheers
http://com1.devnet.scd.yahoo.com/yui/
CSS Forms Being the CSS novice that I am I found this article on CSS managed forms very useful.
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/InForm/
Using jQuery Validation with an Ajax Submitted jQuery UI Dialog Using jQuery Validation with an Ajax Submitted jQuery UI Dialog
http://www.meppum.com/2009/may/15/using-jquery-validation-ajax-submitted-jquery-ui-d/
Xammp Apache, mySQL, PHP, Perl etc all in nice one install (I'm sure I used to know this!)
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Help I cant find my tables! mySQL on Windoze and Linux have differing ideas on table names...
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/name-case-sensitivity.html
Decorating HttpServletRequest How to apply the decorator/wrapper pattern. Specifically to HttpServletRequest objects.
http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/05/decorators.html
jqGrid A (better?) alternative to Flexigrid
http://trirand.com/jqgrid/jqgrid.html
Best XPath overview ever I know we've all seen it but I keep coming back to this XPath reference
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html
Jester Jester is used to test your JUnit tests - interesting
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jester/
XML Schema XML Schema Part 0: Primer is a non-normative document intended to provide an easily readable description of the XML Schema facilities, and is oriented towards quickly understanding how to create schemas using the XML Schema language.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/
XML: elements or attributes? The oldest question asked by adopters of XML is when to use elements and when to use attributes in XML design......
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-eleatt.html
Joda Time Joda-Time provides a quality replacement for the Java date and time classes.
http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/
Oracle and XML (Make XML Native and Relative) 10/10 article by Oracle on how to use their XML DB suite
http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/03-jan/o13xml.html
Good entry level JSTL article The guys at IBM do it once again with a good entry level article on JSTL
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jstl0211.html
Identity Transforms Can you believe I'd never used this XSLT transform technique until this week?
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/identity.html
XML Command line utility A nifty command line util that lets you do a bunch of stuff with XML, XSLT and XPATH etc. Much like awk, sed etc.
http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
Codepress CodePress is web-based source code editor with syntax highlighting written in JavaScript that colors text in real time while it's being typed in the browser.
http://codepress.sourceforge.net/
Alternative to Jarhoo A free and open alternative to Jarhoo
http://www.findjar.com
Thin J2EE wrapper A Java API to start/stop/configure Java Containers and deploy modules into them. Also has Ant task, Maven plugins etc
http://cargo.codehaus.org/
