If you don't like starting at the beginning, try starting with the example code and programs. Also, check your progress through the course. Table of Contents Forward 1: Python Calculator 2: What is a Computer Language? 3: Conditional Statements 4: Loops 5: Introduction to Graphics 6: Back to Looping 7: Introduction to Lists 8: Random Numbers 9: Introduction to Animation 10: Functions 11: Excel Macro Demonstration 12: Controllers and Graphics 13: Bitmapped Graphics and Sound 14: Introduction to Classes 15: Introduction to Sprites 16: Libraries and Modules 17: Searching 18: Array-Backed Grids 19: Sorting 20: Exceptions 21: Recursion 22: Formating Example code and programs

The Google+ Badge allows you to connect your website to your Google+ page or your personal profile on Google+. Adding the badge to your website helps you connect with friends, fans, and customers. Since Google+ pages and profiles are different, we offer two slightly different versions of the badge: one for each case. Badges that link to Google+ profiles allow people to easily find you on Google+ and add you to a circle directly from your website. Badges that link to Google+ pages include these features and add some additional functionality. They help Google consolidate +1's from your website and your Google+ page, and make your website eligible for Google+ Direct Connect.

Android phones/tablets/media players are so cheap at dx.com that maybe it is time to start using them as user interfaces to our projects. I mean, glue one to your project and have touch screen UI with graphics display.. :-)

Die Seite The Hacker Shelf ist eine wahre Fundgrube. Denn dort gibt es tonnenweise freie Literatur rund um die Themen Programmierung und Informatik nach verschiedenen Tags geordnet. Neben vielen Quellen zu Hochsprachen wie Python, kann man dort auch ausführliche Literatur zu eher technischen Themen wie der Assemblerprogrammierung finden.

Developers' pages Welcome to the digitalSTROM server software developers' pages. The dSS software was first published at Linux day 2009 as a pre-release. The 0.7.5 version was released at the dSS Developer Day on 15 January 2010. The software is released under GNU General Public License 3 (GPLv3). There is also a closed source license available for digitalSTROM alliance members. A contributors agreement defines the terms under which bugfixes and modifications can be submitted. Subscribe to the dss-announce mailing list to stay up-to-date with news on digitalSTROM open source topics. Developers can subscribe to dss-developer to exchange ideas.

Failure to create some form of predictability will result in chaos. Failure to create some sort of well-maintained Barbaric chaos inside the company guarantees that a fast-moving, ambitious, risk-taking and ruthless someone else - someone outside the company will invade, because they know what you forgot: hacking is important.

Today we’re happy to announce that this runtime has graduated from Experimental status and is a fully supported feature of App Engine. To get started, download the latest App Engine SDK for Python and check out the Getting Started Guide. We think the Python 2.7 runtime for App Engine is a great step forward for our developers.

Was mir an seiner These latürnich schwer zupass kommt, ist die Tatsache, dass sie mich in meiner Überzeugung unterstützt, dass wir, wenn wir ein "demokratisches" Netz haben wollen, in dem die Produktionswerkzeuge in den Händen möglichst vieler liegen, wir nicht anders können, als die Technologie so einfach wie möglich zu gestalten. Und umgekehrt sollten wir bei denen die komplexe Technologien fordern und fördern, vorsichtig sein, ob sie nicht einen Zentralismus im Netz befördern oder gar aktiv zentralistische Ziele verfolgen.

The Android 3.1 platform (also backported to Android 2.3.4) introduces Android Open Accessory support, which allows external USB hardware (an Android USB accessory) to interact with an Android-powered device in a special "accessory" mode. When an Android-powered powered device is in accessory mode, the connected accessory acts as the USB host (powers the bus and enumerates devices) and the Android-powered device acts as the device. Android USB accessories are specifically designed to attach to Android-powered devices and adhere to a simple protocol (Android accessory protocol) that allows them to detect Android-powered devices that support accessory mode

Because post queries are usually sorted in reverse chronological order, next_posts_link() usually points to older entries (toward the end of the set) and previous_posts_link() usually points to newer entries (toward the beginning of the set).

"I think Qt has a lot to offer people who want to develop applications for (and on) Ubuntu, particularly now. It already powers popular cross-platform applications like VLC, not to mention the entire Kubuntu distribution," he concludes, "It has strong commercial backing as well as a large developer community. No single solution will meet all developers' needs, of course, and Ubuntu supports multiple toolkits and frameworks for this reason, but Qt seems like a great tool to have in our toolbox for the road ahead."

Usability work is problematic in open source software development on many levels. There is often no documentation or explicit research of user goals to drive design, no user experience vision to direct development, no usability testing, and typically no resources allocated for usability work. No usability practitioners are usually employed, and doing usability work is hard due to the community value system being focused on concrete results. An attitude of “code is cheap” leads to a tendency to skip user research, design and validation before implementation. However, developers in open source communities do get feedback from actual users. Also, software development work is iterative, as recommended in user-centered design, so there is some foundation to base usability efforts on.

There are times when you come across a feature in a blog, and you just start thinking to yourself: How can I get this in my WordPress blog/site as well. Everybody have experienced this feeling. Sometimes you know you want it, and don’t know where to look for, or even what to look for. In this article we will be sharing some of the most wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks that you will definitely find useful.

The mission: Fill in all the missing cracks left in Google’s (lack of) documentation, and provide easy tutorials on how you can set up your own wave server.

We have detailed protocol information and wish to add more above and beyond what the official Wave documentation says. We will have instructions on every type of wave server there is, how to federate, and how to set up certificates.

some resources on the subject of Evolutionary Architecture and Emergent Design (which is closely related to refactoring, restructuring and reengineering).

I remain convinced that intimacy and common purpose are more in line with the culture of the internet than mega-malls like Facebook, where funders are more interested in achieving a ridiculous $15bn valuation for the company than in changing peoples' lives for the better.

piwik is an open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak… and so much more. piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics. piwik is different from the competition because: 1. the features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own plugins! 2. you own your data. Piwik being installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv) 3. (NOW AVAILABLE!!!) the user interface is fully customizable, you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display, create the reports you want

Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.

The reality of many projects is that staff members are working from multiple locations and from multiple time zones. Whether this necessarily must lead to the “high-ceremony” project management practices that are anathema to Agile practitioners is a good question.

Dion on new standards that "the industry is trying to bring structure and order to the rapidly growing and frequently unruly world of Web mashups"

indeed, little has changed

does aardvark work again with FF? We'll see .. this list is cool by any measure

Lighthouse is the perfect project management tool that puts simple issue tracking and bug tracking directly at your fingertips. It is perfect for development teams (or teams of any kind) and even has subversion integration.

cool

"try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any CMS system here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.

hmmm, das sieht gut aus ...

many constituents that may revolve around the web strategy

addresses a broad approach to social media beyond the web marketing team and connects the dots between customer support and product marketing

blogged about this on frogpond

Introduction to Customizing Default Pages

This list is slightly slanted towards design and customization

Dion takes a tour of the latest and greatest in terms of mashup platforms with eye for whether or not they are enterprise-ready. Most are not but the potential seems to be there.

an overview to get started with Gears without wading through dozens of pages of documentation yourself

social software as platform ... emergent ad-hoc self-service mashup creation

IBM developerWorks: Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site. Diese 13-teilige Serie zeigt anhand einer fiktiven Organisation, wie man mit Open Source Tools eine Website für kollaboratives Arbeiten entwickeln kan