Resources

Here you'll find some useful resources regarding computing. These are the ones I'm using.

E-Learning

E-learning

On-Line schools

• Code School
  https://www.codeschool.com/
  Very good for Web development, Ruby and some other languages
  
  
• Microsoft Virtual Academy
  http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/
  A lot of incredible tutorials and how-to. A great place to start in .Net world.

Programming tests and skills assesment

• Codility
  https://codility.com/programmers/
  Excellent way to test your skills and improve them!

Conferences		Technologies tutorials and summary		White books
Parleys: http://parleys.com/ Université du SI (French): http://www.universite-du-si.com/		Vogella: http://www.vogella.com/ MyKong: http://www.mkyong.com/ Refcardz: http://refcardz.dzone.com/ DigitalOcean Community: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/		IT hound: http://www.ithound.com/

Development

Android

• Google Android developers: http://developer.android.com/index.html

AngularJS

Official info

• AngularJS official website: https://angularjs.org/
• References websites build with AngularJS: https://builtwith.angularjs.org/

E-Learning

• EggHead: https://egghead.io/
• AngularJS Thinkster: https://thinkster.io/

Tools

Database

• SQL to Java: https://af-dbaccess.googlecode.com/hg/etc/sql-converter-form/sql-converter-form.html

Hexa

• Hexadecimal to decimal: http://www.statman.info/conversions/hexadecimal.html

JavaScript

• JavaScript escape: http://www.htmlescape.net/stringescape_tool.html

Mock-up

• Balsamiq mock-ups: http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/

Monitoring

• JMX Monitoring: http://hawt.io/

Regular Expressions

• Analyze and test: https://www.debuggex.com/
• 10 common regEx: http://www.mkyong.com/regular-expressions/10-java-regular-expression-examples-you-should-know/

Statistics

• Languages statistics: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

UML

• UML online graph: http://yuml.me/

Set of utilities ExtendClass

There are a lot of useful utilities on ExtendClass platform (thanks to @Cyril Bois for the notice):

RegEx / XPath testers

• RegEx online tester: https://extendsclass.com/regex-tester.html
• XPath online tester: https://extendsclass.com/xpath-tester.html

Clients API

• REST client test: https://extendsclass.com/rest-client-online.html
• SOAP client test: https://extendsclass.com/soap-client-online.html

Text formatter

• XML: https://extendsclass.com/xml-formatter-online.html
• JSON: https://extendsclass.com/json-validator.html
• SQL: (https://extendsclass.com/sql-formatter.html

Validator

• JSON validation from given schema: https://extendsclass.com/json-schema-validator.html
• Online and graphical SQLLite editor: https://extendsclass.com/sqlite-browser.html

and many others! Don't hesitate to check it out! ExtendClass

Java

JEE

• Oracle JEE SDK: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/downloads/index.html

JPA

• Java persistence wiki: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence
• JPA API Reference: http://www.objectdb.com/api/java/jpa

JSF

• PrimeFaces: http://primefaces.org/
• PrimeFaces showcase: http://www.primefaces.org/showcase/

JavaScript

OnLine resources

• Mozilla Developer Network || https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
• JS string methods reference: http://www.impressivewebs.com/javascript-string-methods-reference/

Library

• ChartJS: http://www.chartjs.org/

Ebook

• Eloquent JavaScript (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) - to build an application step by step using JS

Web

Design

• Design tips and methodology: Onextrapixel
• Free Responsive Site Templates: Templated.co

Icons

• Find Icons: http://findicons.com/
• Icones pro: http://icones.pro/
• Icon finder: https://www.iconfinder.com/
• My site > my way: http://icons.mysitemyway.com/

Photos

• Stockvault: http://www.stockvault.net/ photographers community

Colors

• Adobe colors CC: https://color.adobe.com/
• Check my colors: http://www.checkmycolours.com/
• Web colors rotate: http://web.colorotate.org/
• HTML color picker: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp

Fonts

• DaFont: http://www.dafont.com/fr/
• Programming fonts: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/

Tag clouds

• Tagul: http://tagul.com/

Statistics

• Global Internet statistics - W3 counter: http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
• Screen resolution statistics - W3 schools: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

Bootstrap

• Twitter bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com/

Remote control

Windows SSH clients

• MobaXterm: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
• mRemoteNG: http://www.mremoteng.org/

Linux

• PAC SSH manager: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacmanager/
• NoMachine - Free Remote Desktop For Everybody: https://www.nomachine.com/

All plaftforms

• Alternative to remote desktop: http://www.splashtop.com/

Microsoft

Even though I'm a Java developer and a big fan of Linux, I must admin Microsoft has pretty good tools and technologies! Here are a bunch of useful links...

MS tools

Website	URL
One Drive	https://onedrive.live.com/
Office On-Line	https://office.live.com/
Visual Studio	http://www.visualstudio.com/
Windows App Studio	http://appstudio.windows.com

MS accounts

Website	URL
Office account	https://office.microsoft.com/MyAccount.aspx
Microsoft Live!	https://account.live.com/
Microsoft Developer Account	https://appdev.microsoft.com/StorePortals/en-US/Account/Profile/Review
Visual Studio account	https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/Profile/View

MS resources

E-Learning

Website	URL
Microsoft Virtual Academy	http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/
Channel 9 (Microsoft tutorial)	http://channel9.msdn.com/

Dev. resources

Website	URL
Windows Dev Center	http://dev.windows.com/en-us
MicroSoft Developer Network	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/
MicroSoft Developer Network - Library	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/

General resources / News

Analysts

• AIIM: http://www.aiim.org/
• Forrester: https://www.forrester.com/
• Gartner: http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp

News

English

• CNN: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/
• InfoWorld: http://www.infoworld.com/
• TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/
• ZDnet: http://www.zdnet.com/

French

• 01Net: http://www.01net.com/
• Le monde Informatique: http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/
• Madyness: http://www.maddyness.com/
• Silicon: http://www.silicon.fr/
• ZDnet (FR): http://www.zdnet.fr/

Human Resources

• European Statics
  • All: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/statistics/themes
  • Market labour: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/labour_market/earnings/database
• 10 competences cles du consultant Java|JEE: http://www.objis.com/formation-java/10-competences-cles-consultants-java-jee.html

Language

• Word Reference: http://www.wordreference.com/
• Linguee (more professional vocable): http://www.linguee.fr/

Security

Following links are only available in French

• French government alerts: http://www.certa.ssi.gouv.fr
• French RSSI community: http://www.zataz.com/

Others

Alternate search engine: https://www.qwant.com/

Websites

TODO

Books

TODO: add references, link and full biblio

Clean Code Joshua bloch' effective java

Others

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