All web developers have bookmarks which they constantly reference. Is there any one URL that should be more popular among web developers?
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http://www.google.com , but then this goes for Every profession too :)
I dont think there is anything I havnt found by doing a google search.
mattlant
2008-09-19 15:24:23
Why do you need to bookmark that. Isn't that what the search bar is for?
Kibbee
2008-09-19 15:29:43
Ctrl + E works better than bookmarking...
vitule
2008-09-19 16:00:18
the Q was: Is there any one URL that should be more popular among web developers? besides i have never gotten used to using the browsers built in search. Something i will need to change :)
mattlant
2008-09-19 17:58:54
Also I would consider google set as my homepage as the 'primary' bookmark :)
mattlant
2008-09-19 18:00:45
CTRL-E, thats a nice little tip. I guess i will be using the integrated search a little bit more now. Thanks :)
mattlant
2008-09-19 18:03:00
wtf, what happend to ctrl-k?
Haoest
2008-09-20 08:59:33
I use Firefox in Windows and Ubuntu I think ctrl-k works in both, but ctrl-e only in Windows. Thanks for the tip!
Liam
2008-09-24 11:46:47
For the last 10 years or so I've set Google as the homepage on any browser and machine I've used more than a moment, so no need to bookmark it. :) (I often prefer Ctrl-T + Alt-Home to Ctrl-K, too.)
Jonik
2009-05-08 16:29:44
Chrome address bar search works wonders... just wait a few milliseconds after typing whatever and it will show the first hits in the dropdown.. uber-usable imo, no clicking required until the right page is loaded
Oskar Duveborn
2009-09-22 13:18:50
That is where you will find the full, official specifications for HTML, CSS, XML, XHTML and other important web standards.
Liam
2008-09-24 11:43:43
You know, there are developers out there who don't have to produce any HTML or XML... Not all developers do web-development. ;-)
JesperE
2009-01-12 10:01:27
Perhaps that's why the question says "What single URL should every *WEB* developer have bookmarked?" ;)
James Burgess
2009-01-12 10:29:48
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SlackerOverflow. That, and Google. But I don't need a bookmark for either.
Will
2008-09-19 15:24:32
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http://www.alistapart.com/ for everything related to professional web interfaces.
Al
2008-09-19 15:28:20
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I use W3Schools as a real handy, easy to use reference for CSS and basic DOM stuff (as well as XPath)
Chris Marasti-Georg
2008-09-19 15:28:56
I am not a 'web developer' but I work on HTML templates for an app and I use W3Schools as well.
Arthur Thomas
2008-09-19 15:39:01
Daily WTF is worth it just for Error'd alone. Reading it in the office does run the risk of strange looks when you start laughing though.
Jonathan Webb
2008-09-19 19:49:05
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Aside from Google (which is very important; it's where I always start), w3schools.com actually came in very handy for a couple years. I learned a lot about CSS, HTML, and other topics such as XSLT.
duma
2008-09-19 15:30:11
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I've actually found the Mozilla Dev Page to be an incredibly useful resource for anything web-related: standards, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, XML, etc.
Magsol
2008-09-19 15:31:14
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http://www.sourceforge.net !!!
This is absolutely one of the largest collections of code known to the human race. You can peruse the code randomly at your leisure and see the good, the bad, and the down right ugly. It's all there.
stephenbayer
2008-09-19 15:33:37
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It really depends on what you mean by web developer. At my company "developer" means programmer. We're an all php shop, so I'd argue for php.net.
But we also have "production" people who work on standard xhtml, css, sometimes javascript, and for those folks, php.net makes no sense. I started in that position, but that was 10 years ago, and back then the answer was easily webmonkey, which was recently re-launched.
livingtech
2008-09-19 15:37:23
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For our german-speaking readers: http://www.galileocomputing.de/openbook
A very good resource of free online books for various languages and topics.
Florian
2008-09-19 15:44:21
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http://api.rubyonrails.org/ of course. Although admittedly I use Google to search it ;-)
Dan Harper - Leopard CRM
2008-09-19 15:51:01
If you need to step away from the code, get up and take a walk... You will almost always stay longer than you need on site like YouTube.
Hapkido
2008-11-13 06:58:23
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For a tech reference site, it really it depends on what you do:
Server-side Developer: http://www.codeproject.com or http://www.asp.net or http://www.php.net
Client-side Developer: http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page (jQuery docs)
Designer: http://delicious.com/popular/webdesign (to keep up with latest trends)
HTML layout: http://www.w3schools.com for dead-simple css references (and examples, and live previewing)
But EVERYBODY can use a good 'task list' -- so I personally think everybody should have 'Remember the Milk' bookmarked. ;-)
Dan Esparza
2008-09-19 16:17:15
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Shorcut and index of many resource for developers, included many sites here mencioned.
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I mostly find myself using resources of W3.org via Google and Web Developer extension. Besides all of the information about standards and recommendations, I think one of the most useful parts of W3.org are The W3C Markup Validation Service and several other tools they provide.
Daniel Schildt
2008-09-19 17:10:07
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Particletree - great web magazine on development, usability, and design the people who make Wufoo.
Alex King
2008-09-19 17:53:01
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All developers (web or otherwise) should be following the SANS Internet Storm Center. It's a fairly up-to-the-minute look at active security threats, as well as an on-going tutorial on security topics.
Ben Dunlap
2008-09-19 17:55:23
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If you're a Microsoft-centric developer, msdn.microsoft.com. Just be prepared to dig a bit ...
John Rudy
2008-09-19 17:57:31
Generally Google does a better job of finding stuff in MSDN than MSDN does. And never permalink anything in MSDN, they seem to change all their URLs every six months, just to keep you on your toes!
Benjol
2008-09-20 18:56:07
Agreed on both points. MSDN is a perfect example of what scares Microsoft about Google.
harpo
2008-10-24 15:29:13
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searchdotnet.com. Site uses google custom search, but only searches selected development sites. Great for finding programming info on things that generate way to many other options in straight google. Try 'RSS' in google and you get tons of useless non programming stuff. Try this site and you get relevant programming topics.
avanwieren
2008-09-19 18:48:04
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Http://devguru.com - Quick concise references for ADO, JavaScript, VBScript, XHTML, ASP, JetSQL, WML, XML DOM, CSS2, PHP, WMLScript, XSLT, HTML, T-SQL, and WSH
Wayne
2008-09-19 18:55:48
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Ruby Home Page just to check out what code they currently have for "Ruby is..."
ragu.pattabi
2008-09-19 19:08:51
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SitePoint Reference contains very in depth HTML and CSS guides, and a javascript one is in the works.
Mr Shark
2008-09-19 19:25:07
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My personal Favorite: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/
Great for Drop down menus and layouts... Helped me move from tables to css and XHTML.
Patcouch22
2008-09-19 20:38:52
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Every german web developer knows Selfhtml.org. Too sad it isn't available in english. It is by far the best HTML/CSS reference I know.
vog
2008-09-19 21:22:32
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http://www.ss64.com It has references for Windows, Linux, Oracle, SQL Server, and more.
Grant Johnson
2008-09-19 21:38:31
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google - to find stuff
www.joelofsoftware.com - to read stuff (not much lately though)
- www.codinghorror.com - to read stuff
- stackoverflow - to ask stuff
- immike.net - to learn stuff about regular expressions (please learn them)
- lifehacker.com - to hack your life instead of my PC!
WACM161
2008-09-19 22:23:57
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Number one is google, by far...
but one of my other top sites that I have open all the time would be safari.oreilly.com - it's a pay service, but if your employer would be so kind as to fund it, I find it invaluable when the need for a coherent, published source is needed. Some topics are just too hard to scrounge around for answers sometimes.
agartzke
2008-09-20 00:49:41
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As an ASP.Net developer I really like the code samples at 4GuysFromRolla.com. They have great tutorials if you want to learn ASP.Net, or check them out to get a good collection of sample code.
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Great javascript/DOM resource http://javascriptkit.com/domref/index.shtml
sledgebox
2008-09-20 03:28:46
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nlaq
2008-09-20 03:40:43
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Not ONE response has mentioned http://validator.w3.org/
Shameful.
apathetic
2008-09-20 03:49:55
Of course, they just release that study that claimed only ~2.5% of web sites are actually valid, so it may not be that vital. :-)
crystalattice
2008-10-24 15:30:28
Also available as the HTML Validator extension, to check markup as you browse.
Liam
2009-09-22 14:52:06
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I have Firefox configured to open the mobile version of Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader/i) in my sidebar with all the blogs/RSS feeds I've tagged as being development related, giving me a nice clean list of posts alongside whatever I'm working on.
This is by far my biggest learning resource as there's always something new or different being discussed and I literally pick up something new every day. It's not so useful as an instant reference for what I'm working on, but I have the Google search box in the menu bar for that!
Luke Bennett
2008-09-24 08:44:26
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bookmark google? surely easily found along with many others quoted. i'd propose a shift in organisation, either through using history of FF3 or chrome, possibly combined with a tagging account such as ddelicious.
dove
2008-10-24 15:17:13
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www.google.com To not ask annoying questions that have been asked before
Dmitri Farkov
2009-09-22 13:15:07
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www.delicious.com Keeps me updated with newest news in the sector
Dmitri Farkov
2009-09-22 13:16:00
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http://www.WhoIsTheCutest.com/
Because web developers are, by nature, insecure beings.
Brad Tutterow
2009-09-22 13:17:33
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It would have to be http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102785/what-single-url-should-every-web-developer-have-bookmarked
It's a really useful list of web development resources.
Skilldrick
2010-02-11 11:49:26