Links
This page [like all the others] is a work in progress. Im sure these links are not interesting to anyone, this page is kind of my online list of favorites.
The links are sorted into general categories; click on a category to view the links.
Technology
Slashdot - news for nerds [www.slashdot.org]
News for nerds.
Netcraft [http://news.netcraft.com/]
Netcraft has information on any domain name - what OS it is running, netblock owner...
ss64.com [www.ss64.com]
"A guide to Oracle, Windows, Linux and OS X commands." Great Win NT command
guide, i havent really used it for Unix / Linux yet.
Tom's Hardware Guide [www.tomshardware.com]
Reviews, articles on computer hardware.
Think Geek [www.thinkgeek.com]
Cool site for buying nerd stuff.
Tech Republic [www.techrepublic.com]
Technology articles on harware, software, trends, etc.
Price Watch [www.pricewatch.com]
If you are shopping for computer hardware, start here. Price watch will give you a good idea of what
you will want to pay for a computer part. Price watch lists and compares prices for computer parts from
many online vendors.
New Egg [www.newegg.com]
New Egg is where i buy all of my computer hardware.
Web Development
Free Tech Books [www.tcfb.com/freetechbooks]
"Your guide to free online computer books, lecture notes, documentations and references."
Open source web design [oswd.org]
A List Apart - web design magazine [www.alistapart.com]
'articles on web design, development, architecture, creativity, and content'
Blue Robot [www.bluerobot.com]
info on clean & basic css layout, open source - pure css layout examples
Real World Style [http://realworldstyle.com/]
'css layouts, tips, tricks and techniques'
Web style guide [www.webstyleguide.com]
CSS / edge [www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/]
'A collection of CSS-driven design demos created by Eric Meyer'
CSS Vault [http://cssvault.com/]
"The Web's CSS site."
Little Boxes [http://www.thenoodleincident.com]
'Example CSS layouts with stylesheet code - one of the places i start when designing a site.
CNet's Builder.com [builder.com/]
CNet's site geared towards web developers. Good articles / examples / ideas.
Netscape DevEdge [devedge.netscape.com]
Netscape's site geared towards web developers. Good content / code / toutorials.
Listamatic [css.maxdesign.com]
stylesheet examples and tutorials for floats, lists
ColorMatch Remix. [http://color.twysted.net]
this is the best color scheme chooser i have seen anywhere.
Color scheme chooser. [http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html]
Web-Graphics [http://web-graphics.com]
This site has links to tons of great standards based web devlopment sites.
NameCheap [http://namecheap.com]
My Domain Registrar - I have been using them because they are cheap and offer full controll over DNS.
Mod Host [http://modhost.com]
My hosting service.
Ideas
[Sites ive stolen ideas, code, layout and design from.]
Waferbaby [www.waferbaby.com]
Waferbaby is some developer's personal web community, i completely ripped off his layout. I didnt steal his code, but i spent an entire
saturday working on my stylesheets to make my site look like his.
hello design [www.hellodesign.com]
hello design's site is where i got the idea for the universitytower.com homepage layout.
madlon [www.madlon.com]
some developer's site - this guy has a simple layout that i will probably steal ideas from in the future.
just watch the sky [www.justwatchthesky.com]
everytime i start to like the way my site looks...
Rafal Wielgus [www.rafalwielgus.com]
some snowborders's site - i got the idea for my logo from this site.
Education / Research
XPlana [www.xplana.com]
XPlana has tons of articles on technology and education, white papers...
MIT Open Courseware [ocw.mit.edu/ocwweb]
MIT Open Courseware is "a free, open, publication of MIT Course Materials." Notes, online courses, etc from MIT.
Webopedia [www.webopedia.com]
Webopedia is a dictionary of technology terms and acronyms.
Project Gutenberg [http://www.gutenberg.net/]
more than 10.000 eBooks, mostly older literary works that are in the public domain
ibiblio [www.ibiblio.org]
ibiblio is a free online library - there are searchable copies of books on most any topic including full text copies of many tech books.
Texas A&M Computer Science Dept. [www.cs.tamu.edu]
Software
Source Forge [www.sourceforge.net]
Open source / shareware software and software projects.
AnalogX [www.analogx.com]
This guy has a bunch of really great small applications.
Outdoors
Backpacker Magazine [www.backpacker.com]
My favorite outdoors magazine about my favorite hobby.
Texas Parks and Wildlife [www.tpwd.state.tx.us]
Any information you could ever need about Texas State Parks
The Backpacker.com [www.thebackpacker.com]
Info on backpacking gear, destinations and trails in every state.
Campmor [www.campmor.com]
This is my favorite retailer for backpacking and camping gear.
www.nike.com
www.rei.com
www.northface.com
Friends
Brian Tarpley's web site [www.geocities.com/briantarpley]
My brother's old website.
Cody Green's web site [www.codygreen.com]
Cody Green's new site has a great layout
Adam Mikeal's personal web site [http://adam.andemyte.com]
Adam is the Web Analyst for the Computer Science Department I am constantly learning
from Adam and I am sure I have stolen an idea or two from his sites.
Bryan Seay's online community and personal site.[www.bryanseay.com]
Bryan Seay is another Co-worker at the Computer Science Department
Adrian Laney's personal site.[www.adrianlaney.com]
Adrian: Co-worker at CS
im probably going to steal some ideas from the layout of
his blog.
Christina's Blog. [www.xanga.com/mujerdivina]
Cristina is always in one cool location or another. She has more photos: [http://members5.clubphoto.com/cris932029/]
Andrew's Blog. [www.andrewcobos.com]
Andrew is my cousin. He is somewhere in Iraq right now.
Misc
Homestar Runner [www.homestarrunner.com]
Strong Bad Emails are a great way to waste time.
Internet archive [www.archive.org]
"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
I dont know how to classify this site - but it is definitely useful. It has periodic "snap shots" of almost any site on the internet.
