How to Learn a New Programming Language Fast!

Smart Programmer - Programming , Productivity Improvement Tips, Tricks: 15 Exercises for Learning a new Programming Language

API lookup service

Here’s a great new reference for various code platforms like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XSL, XPath, XML Schema, MySQL, PHP, Ant, Java, Perl, and DITA. gotAPI aggregates references accross the net to provide you with a very comprehensive list of elements and syntax.

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Super Lightweight Javascript Effects Library

Moo.fx is a collection of JavaScript behaviors that you can employ while designing layouts and page elements. Use the effects to give a “sliding open” effect to frames and text boxes, among other things. Check out how the page slides open when you visit their site.

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Can’t figure out how to refine that algorithm? Try LSD!

It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used

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Easy way to get Into CSS

All the examples on this site have been reduced to only their essential code, and you will find the source displayed on each page to hopefully make it quick and easy to understand the inner workings of the CSS.

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Me, You

This is from my journal:

See, if you get past the fear of it, then through looking at it you can trip yourself out. This is why religions exist, because somebody got to this point of pondering and they wondered what is it that dies and then everything tripped out. Probably they just tried to stare at something. They probably started by holding something very tightly in their mind - trying to see the dying aspect. The changing aspect. This is all beyond death though - this is sort of playing with death - with the concept of it - and of life, and of what it is that is living and dying - this self that we are.

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Slashdot | Google, Jabber, and Jingle

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Libjingle is a set of components provided by Google that let your programs interoperate with Google Talk’s peer-to-peer and voice calling capabilities.

Ajax in Action Book Review

I don’t know much about this yet, but it seems to be a growing buzz word in the software development community. I may check this book out:
Slashdot | Ajax in Action