Links

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Programming Links

General

• Interface Hall of Shame. How not to design graphical user interfaces. With lots of examples, and special sections devoted to particularly miserable designs.
• Unmaintainable Code How to write unmaintainable code, and create employment opportunities for maintance programmers. With lots of examples and tips, but also with enlightening backgrounders.
• IOCCC. International Obfuscated C Coding Contest. Why cowboy coders just love C.
• Flame Warriors. Depicting newsgroup personalities.
• Deja.com. Usenet newsgroups (now hosted by Google).
• MSDN library on the web. Documentation, backgrounders, specifications, articles, books and how-tos on everything from Redmond.
• The Language List. A very long page with a list of programming languages you've never heard of.
• Data Structures and Algorithms. Link says it all.
• The Jargon Lexicon. IT-Jargon and buzzwords explained, with a few rants.
• The Angry Coder. Speaking out on various IT-related topics.
• Joel on Software. Joel Spolsky's site on painless software management.
• Open Source Initiative. So what?
• The Art of Unix Programming Eric S. Raymond on programming on Unix

Web Logs

• Raymond Chen. Not actually a .NET blog.
• Joel On Software Joel Spolsky's blog on software development.
• Eric Lippert Fabulous Adventures in Coding
• Stan Lippman C++/CLI and related

Microsoft .NET

• The .NET Framework Runtime. Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributables, various versions.
• The .NET Framework Class Library. Microsoft .NET Framework Class Library documentation.
• GotDotNet. Microsoft .NET quick start. A practical introduction into the CLR, the .NET framework, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, and more.
• VB.NET for the VB6 Developer (unavailable). Bob Butler's intro to VB.NET, mainly focussing on migration issues.
• C# Corner Code, samples, articles on C# and VB.NET.
• C#.org. More on C#.

Visual Basic.Classic

• Bruce McKinney's Hardcore Visual Basic. Bruce McKinneys Hardcore Visual Basic - Visual Basic with an attitude - full text on the web.
• VB Developers Ressource Centre. A vast ressource for information on how to use the Windows API in VB - detailed, commented code compiling to instructive samples.
• Common Controls Replacement Project. Quality replacements for the Common Controls library.

Web Authoring

• SelfHTML. Everything a web author needs (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Perl, project management, web background info) - a must download (in German).
• The Web Design Group. Help and reference on HTML and Cascading Stylesheets.
• World Wide Web Consortium (w3.org). The internet's standards body for HTML, XML, the DOM, style sheets, and so on.
• mezzoblue. A weblog on web design.

Other Links

• Amnesty International Human Rights.
• Dictionary.com. Terms, terms, terms.
• German/English dictionary. Translates both ways.
• Cocktails. Recipes for more than 8000 cocktails (in German).
• SatireWire. Satire, newspaper style.
• BBSpot. Geek Humour.
• The Dilbert Zone. Office Humor.
• Paperball. Lets you research German newspapers.
• Politik Digital. German politics on the web - statistics, polls, elections, parties.
• David D. Friedman. David D. Friedman's site on law, economics, and libertarianism.
• I, Cringely. Robert X. Cringely's comments on technology, politics, and the like.
• Dispatches from the Frozen North. A weblog from Minnesota.
• Localhost. Your local host.