Microsoft’s Technet site is a huge documentation repository for all things Microsoft. The library on Technet offers technical documentation for Microsoft products and technologies. Sometimes you may want to save documents to your local computer system, for instance to access the documents when no Internet connection is available or to include documents in learning materials. [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Why won’t my software do what I want it to?
I get a lot of troubleshooting emails from people asking how to do X or why Z won’t work on their PCs. One of the common ones I get though is asking why you simply can’t do something on your computer that you were able to a few years ago. One of the common misconceptions [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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xjed: Text editor with Jedi Powers
Okay, so the title is a bit misleading. Using xjed will not make you a Jedi Knight, but it will help you in your quest to become a Jedi-level programmer. Right? Wrong. xjed is a text editor that was designed with programmers in mind. It’s an X11 version of the Jed editor which offers numerous [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Regular Expression Coach
Regular expression can be used to identify strings of text. They are written in a formal language that looks hard to understand on first glance but follows strict rules. Most users associated regular expressions with programming languages and while this is surely a dominant area regular expressions are supported in text editors and other tools. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Get a Freelancer
Get a Freelancer is a website that brings together webmasters and freelancers. I have been using the service twice in the last two months and liked it that much that I thought a review would be nice to spread the word. Webmasters can post -mostly – IT related projects on Get a Freelancer and freelancers [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
Free Programming E-Books
The site programmingebooks has an interesting collection of free available e-books about programming languages. The list itself is a little bit chaotic but it contains many programming languages, like HTML, PHP, Perl, Java and C++.