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Contents

• The World Wide Web
  • Standards and Official Recommendations
  • Helpful Guidelines and Tools
• Medicine and Healthcare
  • Health Informatics
• Writing and the English Language
• Computer Programming
  • Extreme Programming
  • General Software Development
  • Python
  • Java
  • Visual Basic
  • Other Programming Languages
• Open Source Development
  • General
  • Medical Open Source
• Articles

The World Wide Web

Standards and Official Recommendations

• The Internet Society (ISOC)
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  • HyperText Markup Language (HTML validation to Specification)
  • Style Sheets (about CSS validation) (about XSL)
  • Extensible Markup Language (XML)
  • XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0
  • Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification ( Intro)
  • Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Guidelines 1.0 and Techniques
• Center for Applied Special Technologies expanding opportunities for all people
  • Bobby: a web-based tool that analyzes web pages for accessibility.
• XML.com information and services for the XML community
  • Annotated XML Specification by Tim Bray
  • XML validation service
• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
  • The XML Cover Pages

Helpful Guideliness and Tools

• HTML Help by the Web Design Group promoting the creation of creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide
• The HTML Writer's Guild
• Web Developer's Virtual Library Web design tutorials, articles and discussions
• Publishing on the World Wide Web by Scott Nesbitt
• Web Style Guide Yale University Press
• Web Page Purifier, Delorie Software
• bignosebird.com (ascii chart)
• Visibone 216 color-palate
• Web Monkey The Web Developer's Resource (Quick Ref)
• Developer Shed -- The open source web development site
• EarthWeb -- The IT Industry Portal
• HostMatters Hosting Matters
  • Hosting Matters Community Forum

Medicine and Healthcare

Health Informatics

• OpenGalen -- Making the impossible very difficult
• UMLS -- Unified Medical Language System (NLM)
• Health Level Seven
  • Reference Information Model
  • Version 3 Meta-Model
• Center for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education (CHIME)
  • Clinical Information Management and Systems
  • The Good European Health Record (GEHR)
• Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance (JHITA)
  • American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  • American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
  • Center for Healthcare Information Management (CHIM)
  • College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
  • Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• Medical Records Institute (MRI)
• Computer-based Patient Record Institute (CPRI)

Writing and the English Language

• Wordsmyth -- The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus (Resources)
• WordNet -- A Lexical Database for English (look up word)
• Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries
• The DICT Development Group
• dictionary.com
• Guide to Grammar and Writing by Charles Darling, Capital Community-Technical College
• The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Bartleby Library -- Great Books Online
  • The American Heritage Dictionary of the English LanguageThird Edition
  • The King's English by H. W. Fowler (1908)
  • The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (1918)

Computer Programming

General software development

• Cetus Links -- Thousands of Links on Objects and Components
• Patterns -- a culture to support sound design
• Source Forge -- Breaking down the barriers to open source development
• Dr. Dobb's Journal -- Software tools for the profession programmer
• Software Development Online -- A magazine for corporate developers and technical managers
• Isys Information Architects
  • Interface Hall of Fame
  • Interface Hall of Shame
• IEEE Computer Society (SEWeb)

Python

• The Source for Python
  • Tutorial
  • Documentation
• Python 2.0 -- Quick Reference
• wxPython -- cross-platform GUI for Python (online documentation)
• wxDesigner -- dialog editor and RAD tool
• PythonWin -- Windows GUI for Python ( architecture)
• Jython -- Python written in Java
• Pippy -- Python for the PalmOS
• pydoc.py -- documentation generator for Python
• Starship Python -- hosted by Digital Creations, publishers of Zope.
• Vaults of Parnassus -- Python resources
• ActiveState ASPN -- ActivePython and Visual Python
• Python on DMOZ
• Python on Google
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist -- Downey and Elkner
• Dive into Python
• Introduction to Tkinter
• Mailing Lists
  • Tutor -- mailing list for beginners
  • Python-List -- comp.lang.python
  • wxPython-users
  • XML-Sig
  • the list of lists

Java

• The Source for Java^[TM] Technology
  • Java 2 SDK version 1.3
  • Java 2 Runtime Environment
  • Documentation (v1.2.2 - API) (v1.3 - API)
  • Javadoc Tool
  • HotJava browser
• The Java Tutorial
• Java Developer Connection
  • Fundamentals of Swing
  • Part II ( MVC - Complex Design)
  • Books
    • Swing ( Tables)
    • Core Java: Collections
  • XML API's for Databases
• XML and Java

Visual Basic

• Visual Basic Home Page
• Visual Basic for Applications
• microsoft.net -- Microsoft's vision for creating next-generation Internet software
• Windows 95 / 98 / NT / Me / 2000 / XP
• Office 2000
• Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) and Dr. GUI's Gentle Introduction
• Microsoft Foundation Class Library -- MFC

Other programming languages

• Smalltalk -- The Pure Object Environment and Programming Language
• Ruby -- pure object-oriented scripting language
• Eiffel -- a programming philosophy
• Forth -- extensible language and an interactive program development methodology
• Scheme -- statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of Lisp
• Logo -- a philosophy of education
• Language Guide -- University of Michigan-Dearborn College of Enginering and Computer Science
  • Python | Java | Smalltalk | Eiffel | Visual Basic | C++ |
  • Forth | Scheme | Lisp | Logo | Prolog | Perl |

Open Source

General

• Open Source Development Network -- Central entry point to:
  • NewsForge | SourceForge | Slashcode | Slashdot | linux.com
  • QuestionExchange | Freshmeat | themes.org | Open Magazine
• Open Source Development Lab
• Cosource -- Cooperative market for free software
• Concurrent Versions System -- the open standard for version control
• Open Source Education Foundation
• O'Reilly Open Source
• Open Source Developers Journal
• Open Source Writer's Group
• Linux online
• Linux Documentation Project
• Linux International
• Open Source Initiative -- promoting the Open Source definition
• the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation
• free-soft.org
• Stromian Technologies -- The Open Source Software Licensing Page

Medical Open Source

• LinuxMedNews -- Revolutionizing medical education and practice
• Open Source Healthcare Resources
• The Spirit Project
• Link page by Yves Paindaveine
• OpenGalen -- Making the impossible very difficult

Articles

• Is Design Dead? Extreme programming (XP) strives for simple code but simplicity is still a complicated thing to find.
• Fast, Free Prototyping in Python Though Visual Basic has unbeatable GUI and COM capabilities, Python is an open-source tool with surprising utility for corporate development.
• Python Programming in the JVM Increase your productivity by putting Python in your toolbox
• Embracing Change with eXtreme Programming

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