Categories

This is a list of links I've gathered from my internet adventures. I've tried to order them in terms of relevance to spineFORGE endeavours as much as possible. This list will continue to grow over time. I have not yet nearly finished adding all my bookmarks!

IDE

The Immersive Digital Environment is an interactive virtual reality in which you can participate on multiple levels. It is all the digital devices and software that you interact with everyday. You already live in an immersive digital environment.

3D Graphics

Vision is one of our most important senses. A primary link to the outside world. 3D computer graphics allow us to present a world of our own imaginings.

Internet

The internet is a huge digital entity supported by a massive telecommunications framework. It supports millions of users and user agents, distributed computing, and is a powerful social and political force. It is the substrate upon which the immersive digital environment is being created.

Semantic Web

The concept of an internet that carries meaning - where data is discoverable and ontology standards maintain interoperability and a lot more.

Geoweb

The convergence of the geospatial world of latitude and longitude, and the abstract internet of URLs.

GIS

Geographical Information Systems. Powerful technologies that power government, science, the military, and soon, your life.

Wiki

Games

Digital entertainment. The virtual reality that did not fail.

Technology Progress

Us humans are enterprising beings...

Computing Hardware

Software Development

Building software - making something out of nothing. Shaping thought and patterns into tools.

Algorithms and Data-Structures

Mathematics

Regular Expressions

A syntax for describing pattern queries

Databases

Store stuff, relate it to other stuff.

AI

Digital minds.

Open Source

Like the tool? See how it works.

C/C++

C and C++ are statically-typed, compiled languages with reputations for being fast, but dangerous. These languages are dominant in system and library development where performance is critical. C is a minimal procedural language, while C++ is it's object-oriented big brother.

Python

Unicode

If you want to join the global village - this is what your code needs to support

HTTP

The basic transport protocol for web pages or web applications.

HTML

The language of the web - the hypertext markup language.

XML

The eXtensible Markup Language. The basis for many internet technologies.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets allow you to define styles for web documents, based on style classes.

DOM

The document object model is a W3C standard for interfacing with XML documents. This metaphor is being extended to other technologies as well. It allows developers to use familiar ways of accessing document parts and attributes.

CGI

The common gateway interface is used to allow queries to web-servers that can manipulate server-data or return a dynamic web-page

Javascript

Also called ECMAscript, the standard scripting language for the internet. Mostly used as a DOM (Document object model) manipulator.

PHP

Server-side processing language for hypertext documents.

AJAX

People are realising they can use the server and the browser to build true client/server applications without the page reload metaphor of HTML.

SVG

RDF

A building block of the Semantic web - describe stuff and how it relates to other stuff.

RSS

Win32

Windows development links

UNIX/Linux

Plan9

An interesting operating system based on UNIX, but with a much more consistant philosophy

Java

Mozilla

THE browser.

Apache

Webserver Administration

How to setup and maintain your own web server

Web Design

These links provide overviews, tutorials, articles and opinions about web design today. Web design is the practive of using web technologies such as HTML and CSS to build innovative, attractive websites and web applications.

Website Navigation

Flash

LISP

LISP is one of the oldest computer languages - and also one of the most powerful. I've not used it at all - but it makes an interesting research topic.

wxWidgets/wxWindows

Business

  • Winternals have a good reputation for providing quality system administration tools for windows

Society

Privacy

Rights

Art

Flying/Aviation

Trains

  • Spoorsim A South African who has built a rail simulator!

Nature

Our planet, our universe, ourselves, our prey, and our predators.

Weather

The ultimate dependancy.

Food

Software developers do not generally live healthy life-styles - heres my start to changing that:

Space

Places

Cape Town

The city where spineFORGE is currently located.



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