Key & Compass: Programming and Web Markup

👉 Site Index

• Interactive Fiction: Overview. My Games. Sites. People. Events. Companies.
• Personal: About me, David Welbourn. Stuff I've made. Where I am on the web.
• Programming and Web Markup: General. Images. Perl. Web Markup. Uncategorized.
• Miscellanea: Games. Humour. Literature. Local to Kitchener-Waterloo. Reference. Webcomics.

(Note that these are all very rough notes, added haphazardly so I don't lose the info entirely.)

⌨️ General

• Character Sets/Unicode – Graphemica, Letter Database, Shapecatcher, Unicode Character Finder, Unicode character table.
• Colours – Color Blender for getting colour sets that work together.
• Data Formats – JSON, mySQL, YAML.
• Languages – Perl, Python.
• Style – Interface Hall of Shame (and Fame).
• Terminology – Filename Extensions, TLDs.
• Time – YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD timezone descriptor

🖼️ Images

• TinEye: Reverse Image Search.

🐪 Perl

• Perl (CPAN, perldoc)
• perl -MCPAN -e shell
  install CMS::MediaWiki
• LWP is short for libwww-perl, a set of modules to help perl interface with the web; eg: LWP::UserAgent.
• Check meetup.com and pm.org to find local Perl User Groups.
• perlbrew lets you install and make multiple perls in home directory.
• cpanm is a lightweight cpan client.
• Research String::Util "trim" (and what other functions it offers). Search cpan.org/perldoc?String::Util

🕸️ Web Markup

• Named Entities
• Basics/Beginning – Bare Bones, HTML Help (colours), Index DOT, SitePoint, W3C: HTML Elements, W3C: Learn, W3Fools, W3Schools, WebPlatform.org, Dive Into HTML5.
• CSS – CSS Tricks.
  • cursor:help to get an arrowhead-cum-question-mark cursor.
  • Don't forget about CSS's :before and :after
• Scripting – javascript.internet.com, JavaScript at W3Schools, Matt's Script Archive (home of FormMail).
• Style & Accessibility – Dive Into Accessibility, Gov.UK: Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility, W3C Style Guide, Who Is Hosting This?: Website Accessibility.
• Testing – CSS Validator, HTML Validator, Link Checker, VisCheck.
• W3C – CSS1, CSS2, HTML 4.01 (tags, attributes), XHTML 1.1.

🚧 Uncategorized

• W3Schools certificates cost $95 each.
• HTML sample from Wikipedia's Template:Spoiler:

  <div class="notice metadata" id="spoiler">'''[[Wikipedia:Spoiler Warning|Spoiler warning]]: ''Plot and/or ending details follow.'''''</div>

• TextCrawler manual
• VGG = VideoGameGeek
• see rackspace.com; learn about cloud hosting, etc.
• Seltani is a multiplayer hypertext thing by Zarf.
• Careers at Joel on Software.
• Treehouse (training, web design, coding, etc.)
• howjsay tells you how words are pronounced using audio clips.
• code.org
• Check out JSMESS at archive.org
• Generating a wiki backup using a Python script.
• Procedural Generation:
  • Improv by Bruno Dias: Download at GitHub, Documentation, Tutorial.