Helpful Links.

[Djkanna]

Okay here goes, one thread devoted to helpful links for web developers. *It's an unfinished list* Please note, whilst some are tutorials not all are, a few will be sites to prominent developers that frequently talk about techniques and tricks, others could be books that are available from Amazon and other publishers.

HTML, CSS, Javascript;

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• Mozilla Developer Network - Doc Center
  
• Google: HTML, CSS and Javascript from the ground up.
  
• Sitepoint CSS Reference
  
• W3Sc... W3fools (not specifically a resource for learning about the above, however read it!)
  
• LearnCSS Tuts+ (Free course, from Tuts+).
  
• Learn jQuery Tuts+ Please bare in mind, this is a subscription via email, you'll receive a tutorial every day, however they'll be available here when the 30 days is up.
  
• Crockford (Yes I know once again not specifically a resource for learning, however if your interested in Javascript, I cannot think of many better to follow than Mr. Crockford.)
  
• Javascript Kit
  
• Brendan Eich (Javascript tips and tricks, straight from the horses mouth.)
  
• Douglas Crockford: Javascript the Good Parts. David Flanagan: Javascript: The Definitive Guide.
  
• Eloquent Javascript
  
• Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide - Eric Meyer
  
• Andrew Burgess - Getting Good with Javascript
  
• Jeffery Way - Photoshop to HTML (It's a guide on taking your designs from Photoshop and bringing them to life, if we have a section on just PSD->HTML then this will go there, for now it's suitable to place it here.)
  
• A beginners guide to HTML & CSS.
  
• 
  
• Codecadamey
  

PHP

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• PHP Manual
  
• PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
  
• PHP Security Consortium
  
• Rasmus' Toys Page
  
• Dagfinn Reiersol (w/Marcus Baker & Chris Shiflett) - PHP In Action
  
• DevelopPHP (Okay so this is a tutorial site (on more than PHP), cannot verify how well written the tutorials are, but could be some gems in there)
  
• Chris Shiflett - Essential PHP Security
  
• Matt Zandstra - PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice
  
• Chris Shiflett - Blog
  
• 
  
• Smashing Magazine: 50 Extremely useful PHP tools (*- Spudinski)
  
• Zend: DevZone (*-Spudinski)
  
• PEAR: PHP E & A Repository (*-Spudinski)
  

ASP.NET ( & C# - *omited VB unless it's of use to this community then I will put some VB resources here too.)

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• ASP.NET from scratch (NetTuts+ session)
  
• Microsoft: ASP.NET
  
• 
  
• ASP.NET Tutorials
  
• C# Reference (Microsoft Developer Network)
  
• Matthew MacDonald - Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional
  
• Matthew MacDonald - Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008
  
• Four Guys from Rolla
  

SQL: (I'll put things relating to MySQL, SQLight etc here)

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• MySQL Developer Zone
  
• SQL as understood by SQLight
  
• SQLCourse (unknown to me, so try it out)
  
• Tizag's SQL tutorial introduction
  
• Couch DB (Home page, there's resources available there, rather than linking to each seperate)
  
• PostgreSQL Documentation
  

Worthy Mentions (Here I will put things that at the time of addition do not have a place in a section, or things that are on here on the forums or just things that are useful.)

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• Stack Overflow (Very handy resource if you have questions regarding developement, languages, techniques or problems with your code, search first it may have already been asked.)
  
• Google (Why I have to mention this is beyond me)
  
• Wikipedia (Yes I know, however Wikipedia is still a useful resource if you want to find out the origins of languages, theories etc)
  
• OWASP
  
• MIT OpenCourseWare
  
• Video Lectures
  
• Sitepoint Videos (this is here because it covers more than one subject)
  
• Lynda
  
• ShowMeDo (Great idea - handy too)
  
• CodeProject (*- Spudinski)
  
• GameDev.net (*-Spudinski)
  
• Wotsit (*- Spudinski)
  
• JS Beautifier (*- Spudinski)
  
• Binary - Dec - Hex Convertor (* - Spudinski)
  
• Object Orientated Design (* - Spudinski)
  
• Code Academy (* - The Spirit)
  

Okay please note, this is not a finished list, I'll continue to add to it, refine sections and such, this is just the start. I'll be adding resources for Ruby (and frameworks/gems) next. All resources were found by, memory,bookmarks,Google, StackOverflow,threads on here. 4: The amount of times, VB tried to screw me over whilst writing this thread. :mad:

Notice: There's a few tools within this thread now (and more to come), so I may split it out into a section on just tools (language independent).

Edited December 30, 2012 by Djkanna
Octarine's posts removed, due to no longer existing.

[a_bertrand]

Great thread, made it sticky... and promoted to article too ;)

[Ishraq]

This is going to be really useful.

[Djkanna]

Oh yes! Honorable mention :D

There is talk of converting that lot into a series of blog posts, but...

I still need to do #6? iirc which kills a couple of major bugs that are

usually missed and make an attempt at addressing the rather tricky

brute-force prevention trick.

I think a series of blog posts is a great idea (providing you're willing to continue on) as the previous 5 threads are rather helpful to have.

There was also talk of having a specific board just for those types of challenges, however I haven't followed up on it, so no idea if Nickson is still wanting to do such a thing.

Thanks Alain.

Thanks Biohazard, that's the goal.

I should probably mention, anyone feels like they've found or know of a good resource that isn't in the list, share it! I will add it to the list. :D

[Spudinski]

50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools

Zend DevZone

RTFM

CodeProject

GameDev.net

PEAR

Wotsit

OODesign

Binary-Dec-Hex Convertor

PHP Formatter

JS Beautifier

Though, I do think that pointing to specific books are inadequate.

Edited February 7, 2012 by Spudinski

[The Spirit]

This will be great thanks.

also dont see it on the list http://codeacademy.org/

[Djkanna]

50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools

Zend DevZone

RTFM

CodeProject

GameDev.net

PEAR

Wotsit

OODesign

Binary-Dec-Hex Convertor

PHP Formatter

JS Beautifier

Though, I do think that pointing to specific books are inadequate.

Why do think such a thing?

Links will be added shortly, thanks. #Edit: Links added (-the RTFM one, it's somewhat unnecessary.)

Thanks Spirit, don't have a section for courses, so I'll add it to Worthy Mentions for now. :)

Edited February 7, 2012 by Djkanna

[Cronus]

nice list dj

[Spudinski]

Why do think such a thing?

Well, books always try to cover a broad range of subjects. Which is normally impossible, so they abbreviate chapters into a summary.

I for one, much rather prefer to read a book that is specifically focused on what I need to do later, eg. Code Simplicity by Max Kanat-Alexander.

[Djkanna]

Fair enough.

Thanks Cronus.

[zefiux]

Finally something cool, what could help me learn basics.

P.S. You should add this link:

http://www.memorise.org/memory-gym

or someting like that xD

[Djkanna]

Thanks for the link Zefiux, apparently my memory sucks. :P

-Topic updated: Octarine's posts removed. & I plan on adding more at the weekend.

[rednspirited]

is there a program that allows you to virtually run a website so you can test modifications before actually changing files on your website?

Hope this is the right place to ask

[Magictallguy]

There are multiple ways to do this.
If Windows, look into XAMPP.
If Linux or Mac, look into Devilbox - a Dockerized XAMPP alternative

[rednspirited]

thanks 🙂