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Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

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The other two were HTML, XHTML, and CSS published by Visual Blueprint and RailsSpace by Michael Hartl and Aurelius Prochazka. They felt the HTML/CSS book was so-so but it was enough to get them started. For design, they went with SpeckyBoy and Smashing Magazine.

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Technical Demo of Oblong’s g-speak Spatial Operating Environment

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From there Mary Ann gets into “Pools & Proteins&# and starts talking about the architecture and design philosophy of g-speak and how it works. Using g-speak, she shows the integration of a VT-100 app, Java app, HTML app, a native g-speak app, and a video conferencing session.

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What Was Day 1 Like?

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The first week was spent just googling "web site design", "web site architecture" and "web server" to try to get a handle on all of the acronyms we were coming across (such as CSS, HTML PHP MYSQL, ROR, JS, AJAX).

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

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Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. When I started investing in companies that were building Web apps in 1994, it was once again all HTML / source code and examples everywhere. Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ?