Thanks for visiting this list of my favorite links. Below you will find a series of links, grouped by common theme, that I visit frequently and find particularly useful for their purpose. Enjoy!
General Web Sites to Know
- Google - a giant web presence, hosting a search engine, mail service, video service, mapping and driving directions, a few mathematical and scientific functions, desktop software, and many specialized categorical searches.
- del.icio.us - an online bookmark storage place that also allows you to share your links publicly and note how many other users "tagged" that page in their personal links. Called, "Social Bookmarking."
- Digg - another social bookmarking site that enables people to see the popularity of a news article, based on the number of "Diggs"
Catholic Links
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - approved references
- Daily Readings - scriptures available for the day
- Catholic.org - news, saints information, and email!
- Eternal Word Television Network - a great resource for all
- The Vatican - official documents and more
- The Catechism of the Catholic Church - what we believe as Catholics
- The Documents of the Second Vatican Council - archives of the documents of the Second Vatican Council
- The Encyclicals of Pope John Paul II - beautiful writings; must read!
- A Comprehensive Reference of Saints - for all your saint trivia
- Page about Divine Mercy - the devotion given to Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska in Poland
- Saint Peter Chanel in Hawaiian Gardens - my home parish
- Mass Times - a resource for travelers
- Totally Catholic Link Directory - the list goes on!
Education and Knowledge
- WikiPedia - the largest open source encyclopedia
- Wikiversity - a WikiMedia offshoot focusing on a classroom-based learning experience, rather than the encyclopedia approach
- eGuidance Career Center - for all college-bound students
- Dictionary.com - An online Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Eric Weisstein's Mathworld
- Antonio Santamaria's Spanish Website
- WikiPedia - the largest open source encyclopedia
Hi-Tech News and Communities
- Slashdot - science and technology user-contributed news
- The Open Source Initiative monitors the Open Source software community and provides a consolidated reference of the approved OpenSource software licenses for your use as a developer.
- The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Foundation - "Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech", not as in "free ice cream".
- SourceForge.net - a huge software developing community hosting open source projects for free
- Programmers' Heaven - an entire community with forums, message boards, utility downloads, articles, tutorials, and code, all free!
- Web Developers' Virtual Library - a whole host of links to web-development-related resources
- Dynamic Drive - DHTML scripts for free: JavaScript, CSS, and more for web developers
Software
- on any operating system, in any language!
- a wonderful layer-based open source image editor
- a great open source web browser, news reader, email client, and more
- a very secure and extensible open source web browser, feed reader, and more
- a very secure and extensible open source mail client and news reader; companion to Firefox.
Linux Distributions
- Distrowatch.com - news and details on every distribution out there, including a package list and release history!
- OSNews.com - news and forum about Operating Systems, all inclusive
- Slackware Linux - the most unix-like distribution; for advanced users
- Ubuntu Linux - an easy-to-install, easy-to-use distribution
- OpenSuSE Linux - a user-friendly distribution
- Gentoo Linux - compiled operating system for super users and for novices alike!
- FreeBSD - a derivative of the BSD unix-based operating system developed at the University of California at Berkeley
Specific Programming Languages
- World-Wide-Web Consortium - these guys have all of the specs for most web-based applications, including HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, and many more
- The Apache Project - the world's most-used web server. (and that's not all...)
- PHP - a very popular server-side scripting language, used in cgi scripting, among other things.
- CPAN - the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, containing docs and specs for the Program Extraction and Reporting Language (Perl)
- Regular-Expressions.info - a fabulous site instructing on the basic and the technical aspects of perl-style regular expressions, especially the PCRE family.
- Java - a very popular object-oriented programming language, interpreted on each platform, so it is really platform-independent!
- CPlusPlus.com - a great resource for C/C++ coders; function list and syntax guides along with detailed and useful tutorials for all!
- Python - a great interpreted language
Hardware and Components
- Ars Technica - a site with buying guides and much information, both technical and for the average consumer, regarding hardware and PC components.
- AnandTech - reviews on PC Components across the market
This list is open to visitor contributions. Feel free to suggest a favorite of your own!