Webmonkey for web development

Webmonkey is a free resource for tutorials, definitions, code, CSS, HTML, and more web development help.

Free Web Templates

You don’t have to do it yourself to get a good looking web site. Free templates are available online.

• Free Web Templates
• Free Website Templates

Dynamic Drive DHTML & JavaScript

Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library is a source of “free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site”.

Calendars, forms, image effects, mouseovers, scrollers… lots more.

Brixoft SourceEdit for web page editing plus

Need a freeware web page editor that handles lots of programming languages too?

SourceEdit from Brixoft “is an editor especially made for developers but can of course be used as a regular text editor as well. It natively supports the following languages: ASP, PHP, Java, C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, Pascal, Perl, Cold Fusion, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML. Source Edit quickly and seamlessly colors all code written in any of these languages.”

Some features:

“supports recording of keyboard macros that can be saved as a keyboard shortcut (for example Ctrl+1) and to the toolbar. Source Edit can also repeat any command any number of times automatically.”

“an IntelliSense like code completion feature.”

“Quick and easy color mixer for web developers.”

“highly customizable. You can change or set keyboard shortcut to all commands available. You can change how code is colorized. You can also set the “file mapping”. By file mapping you associate different file types to different languages. So when you open or save a file with a *.cpp extention, for example, Source Edit will immediately use the C/C++ color coding. You are also able to change what files are shown in the Open and Save As dialog boxes.”

thefreecountry.com: Free Programmers/Webmasters/Security Resources

thefreecountry.com has a “collection of free programming resources, free webmasters’ resources, free security resources and free utilities.”

thefreecountry.com has: free programming language compilers, source code, tools and utilities, documentation, emulators and virtual machines.

They have free and cheap web hosting links, free PHP/Perl/CGI and other scripts, remote script hosting (for when you need to run a script but it’s not allowed on your website’s system), tutorials, and other webmaster resources.

Free security, privacy and anonymizers and resources for surfing.  Free utilities of a variety of software.

Sort of “you want it, we got it” on this site.

AutoIt to automate your functions

AutoIt is a way to write your own simple programs to automate Windows tasks, such as doing backups or a defrag at a certain time, or running certain programs in a specified order.

AutoIt is freeware.

Build your own widgets

Yourminis has a build-it-yourself service for creating widgets to go on your web page, blog, etc.  If you’re not feeling all that creative, you can check their gallery for possibilities provided by others.

Cheat Sheet: PHP

[last updated 2009.7.17]

“Added Bytes” has a number of handy cheat sheets for programmers.

Cheat Sheet: MySQL (and Jack Daniels?)

“I Love Jack Daniels” has a number of handy cheat sheets for programmers. There is no apparent requirement to share the same taste in drinks just to use the cheat sheet, however.

MySQL Cheat Sheet
Posted in Cheat Sheets, May 24, 2005

“A quick reference guide for MySQL, including functions (both in MySQL and PHP), data types, and sample queries. Available in PDF and PNG formats.”

Cheat Sheet for SQL Server

“I Love Jack Daniels” has a number of handy cheat sheets for programmers.  There is no apparent requirement to share the same taste in drinks just to use the cheat sheet, however.

SQL Server Cheat Sheet

Posted in Cheat Sheets, July 20, 2007

“Microsoft’s SQL Server is a powerful database server that integrates well with other Microsoft technologies like ASP and .NET, and includes some of the best database management tools available. This A4 reference lists the various functions available in SQL Server, and demonstrates the creation of stored procedures, triggers and functions.”

PerlExpress makes it easier

PerlExpress is an unique and powerful integrated development environment (IDE) under Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003, includes multiple tools for writing and debugging your perl programs. Perl Express is intended both for the experienced and professional Perl developers and for the beginners.  Open source freeware!

General Features

•	Multiple scripts for editing, running and debugging
•	Full server simulation
•	Completely integrated debugging with breakpoints, stepping, displaying variable values, etc.
•	Queries may be created from internal Web browser or Query editor
•	Test MySQL, MS Access… scripts for Windows
•	Interactive I/O
•	Multiple input files
•	Allows you to set environment variables used for running and debugging script
•	Customizable code editor with syntax highlighting, unlimited text size, printing, line numbering, bookmarks, column selection, powerful search and replace engine, multilevel undo/redo operations, margin and gutter, etc.
•	Highlighting of matching braces
•	Windows/Unix/Mac line endings support
•	OfficeXP-styled menus and toolbars
•	HTML, RTF export
•	Live preview of the scripts in the internal web browser
•	Directory Window
•	Code Library
•	Operation with the projects
•	Code Templates
•	Help on functions
•	Perl printer, pod viewer, table of characters and HTML symbols, and others

Recommended by the Librarian in Black.

Does Cousin It use AutoIt?

Remember Cousin It from the old Addams Family shows or movies?  Did he use a computer?  Oh, wait — we never saw his hands… so he had to use something hands-off, didn’t he?

Maybe he could use AutoIt, the “freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying “runtimes” required!”

AutoIt is intended to create your own programs to perform Windows tasks with little programs that simulate someone using the mouse and/or keyboard.

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