The 3 (or 4) Character Traits it takes to Create a Successful Startup
Want to know the second most comon question from startup entrepreneurs? (The first, of course, is “Where can I get money?”) It’s “What traits do successful entrepreneurs share?”
Read More →5 Ways to Bootstrap Your Startup
The conflicting (frequently unsolicited) advice startup entrepreneurs too often hear is enough to make you tune it all out. Either you’re told that you need to go big and
Read More →Code School Now Offering HTML5/CSS3 Interactive Course
Code School, the collection of online participatory course we covered previously, has a new course called Functional HTML5 & CSS3. The course consists of videos introducing concepts, followed by online tests to prove you’ve learned the material. You c…
Read More →Sencha Touch Charts Bring Data Visualization to Mobile Web
Sencha Touch Charts are a new offering from mobile app framework and tools provider Sencha. Recently launched into beta, these charts lets mobile developers build HTML5 Web applications for data visualization and exploration.
Mobile users can then mani…
Free Mini Book: Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners is a recent free mini e-book by by Addy Osmani. In addition to covering a several useful JavaScript design patterns, Osmani covers what design patterns are, what makes a good pattern, the structure of…
Read More →Stanford’s JavaScript-based Computer Science 101 Materials Available Online for Free
The website for Stanford University’s Computer Science 101 contains lecture notes and interactive JavaScript exercises, and is available for free to the public. The exercises can be completed within the browser.
The technology used to create the in-b…
Read More →5 Free E-Books on Haskell
There’s been a lot of love lately for Clojure (which Heroku now supports), Scala (used at Twitter among other places) and Erlang (used by Facebook among other places). But if you’re interested in functional programming, don’t forget about Haskell.
Spo…
Picking the Right Web Server
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has written a wonderful article for newbies and experience pros alike for the sponsored site Software Quality Connection with the above title.He has lots of great suggestions and the article is well worth a quick read.
Sponsor…
10+ Free Resources for Learning Clojure
Clojure is a dialect of the LISP programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It’s becoming increasingly popular as a modern functional programming language. This week O’Reilly Radar blogger Stuart Sierra called it “the hot new language…
Read More →Learn Python the Hard Way 2nd Edition Released
Learn Python the Hard Way, a free e-book for beginning programmers by Zed Shaw has been updated to the 2nd edition. It’s available for free in HTML format. PDF or ePub editions cost $1, paperbacks cost $15.99 and a hardcover is available for $60.
The…
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