Technical Sites Directory
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Development & Web Authoring
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CPlusPlus.com
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CPlusPlus.com:
Resource - Information - Library Reference -
Documentation - Tutorials - Articles - Source Code
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HTMLhelp.org
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The Web Design Group (WDG)
was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific,
non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are
accessible to all users worldwide. Tutorials, reference, & examples
found here.
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HTML Writers Guild
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The HTML Writers Guild (HWG)
is a leading training organization for the Web design community,
with over 150,000 members in more than 160 countries world-wide.
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W3Schools.com
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W3Schools
W3Schools is a web developers site, with tutorials and references
on web development languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP,
SQL, W3.CSS, and Bootstrap, covering most aspects of web programming.
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PHP Scripting
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PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language
that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded
into HTML.
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MySQL Database
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MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Linux,
Windows, OS/X, HP-UX, AIX, and Netware. It's used in more than 11
million installations ranging from large to specialized embedded
applications on every continent in the world. (Yes, even Antarctica!)
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MongoDB Database
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MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable,
high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. Written in C++.
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Open Source Software
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Linux
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Linux
is a free Unix-type operating system originally created
by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world.
Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for
Linux is freely available to everyone.
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GNU Project
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The GNU Project
was launched in 1984 to develop a complete
Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system.
Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel called
Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred
to as Linux, they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.
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Free Software Foundation
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF)
, established in 1985,
is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy,
modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes
the development and use of free software, particularly the GNU
operating system, used widely in its GNU/Linux variant.
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OpenOffice
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OpenOffice
is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite
and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office
suites including Microsoft Office, the product is
free to download, use, and distribute.
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Glade Interface Designer
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Glade
is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development
of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop
environment, released under the GNU GPL License.
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Internet Standards
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ICANN
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
coordinates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions,
which are key technical services critical to the continued operations of the
Internet's underlying address book, the Domain Name System (DNS).
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IANA
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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root,
IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.
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WWW Consortium
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WWW Consortium (W3C)
is the main international standards organization
for the World Wide Web (W3). Member organizations maintain
full-time staff for the development of standards.
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Internet Society
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Internet Society (ISOC)
is an international organization that
promotes Internet use and access. It states that its mission is:
to assure the open development, evolution and use of the
Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
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Internet Traffic
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Internet Traffic Report (ITR)
monitors the flow of data around the world
displaying data graphically and numerically.
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ARIN
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American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Canada,
the United States, and some islands in the Caribbean and
North Atlantic ocean.
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Network Solutions
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Network Solutions, LLC is a technology company handling
domain name registration. As of 2006, Network Solutions managed
more than 7.6 million domain names.
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Technical Standards
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ISO
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International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
is an international standard-setting body
producing world-wide industrial and commercial standards.
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ANSI
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American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of
standards in the United States coordinating them
with international standards.
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IETF
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
is an open, all-volunteer standards organization that develops and
promotes Internet standards, TCP/IP in particular,
cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC.
Find RFC documents here.
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IEEE
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
[pronounced as eye-triple-e] is an international non-profit,
professional organization for the advancement of technology related
to electricity with the most members of any technical
professional organization in the world.
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