• Types of Barcodes: Choosing the right barcode: EAN, UPC, Code128, ITF-14 or Code39?
• GS1 – Barcode Types

Programming

• JavaScript
  • Netscape’s JavaScript Guide
  • Netscape’s Client-Side JavaScript 1.3 Guide
• Quick Start Guide to PEAR:DB
• PHPLib Manual
• Advanced Bash Scripting HOWTO
• Labmice: Batch File Command Reference for Windows 2000
• ASCII to HEX value Chart
• ODBC
  • SQL for ODBC
  • ODBC Error Messages
• POSIX 1003.2 Regular Expressions
• Windows Codepages List
• Database
  • General deadlock prevention guideline: 1. delete before insert, 2. lock all affected tables
  • Microsoft Jet SQL 3.0 Quick Reference
  • SQL FAQ: Joins
  • Oracle Database Naming Conventions
  • Identifying relationship
  • PHP Application Development With ADODB (part 1) (Old, before PEAR appears?)
  • Database Design and Modeling for Programmers
  • ITtoolbox Database Resources
  • Advanced Java 2 Development for Enterprise Applications (2nd Edition)
  • Object-Oriented Modeling and Design for Database Applications
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
  • Finding Objects In Relational Databases
• Extreme Programming
• Microsoft patterns & practices

Software Application

• PostgreSQL 7.2 Documentations
  • Server Runtime Configurations
  • Data types
  • Functions and Operators
  • SQL Commands
• phpDocumentor
  • Manual
• Apache HTTP Server 1.3 Documentation
• Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Documentation
  • Directive Quick Reference
• Apache mod_perl 1.0 guide
• FreeS/WAN 1.99 Documentation
• SAMBA

VBScript

General

• DevGuru VBScript Reference
  • VBScript Index
• MSDN: VBScript Language Reference
• Contents for Guy’s Scripting Ezine 36 – FSO Copy (Part 2)

Cook Book

• VBScript: Delete Old Files and Folders
• VBScript to Delete Files in a Directory Older Than X Days
• Unix Epoch Time in seconds converter in different languages

  For VBScript:
  DateDiff("s", "01/01/1970 00:00:00", Now())

• Use environment variables in VBScript
• VBScript ISO Date function
• VBScript detect network connection by pingWritten by MVP
• Error Level Checking in a VBScript

  Dim WshShell, oExec
  Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
  
  Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("InsertFullPathToYourExeInHere")
  
  Do While oExec.Status = 0
     WScript.Sleep 100
  Loop
  
  Select Case oExec.ExitCode
     Case 0
        ' do something...
  
     Case 1
        ' do something else...
  
  End Select

• YUI
  Yahoo JavaScript library

Development

General

• Open Source Software: A Case Study
  PPT presentation of a LAMP development experience
• FuseBox framework for CF and PHP

Prototyping

• Paper Prototypes: Still Our Favorite
• Using Paper Prototypes to Manage Risk

Documentation & Coding Style

• phpDocumentor – The complete documentation solution for PHP
• PHP PEAR Coding Standard
• phpCodeBeautifier
  • phpCodeBeautifier’s options

GUI Design

• Sun Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines
  • Idioms for Text Fields and Lists
• Microsoft Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers (Seems broken)
• The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs

Example

• A Dual ListBox Selection Manager

Version Control

• Mercurial
• Subversion
• CVS
• SVK
  An improved SVN, however user base maybe smaller

Reference / Specifications

• Quicken QIF File Specification
• ASCII character table reference