Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Ruby QuickRef

(cheatsheet, docs, documentation, ref, reference, ruby)

CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator

Nifty.

(browser, code, css, css3, development, generator, html, html5, reference, tool, webdev)

Creating UI assets for the iPhone OS — Random Non Sequitur

Great roundup of the stuff to think about as you're preparing graphics for the iPhone/iPad.

(design, iphone, reference, ui)

Fondant Coverage Chart

(baking, cakes, fondant, icing, reference)

Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses

(gardening, kansas, ks, plants, prairie, reference, wildflowers)

Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code!

Incredibly useful roundup of atomic syscalls (on POSIX, at least). I knew about link and open(O_CREAT | O_EXCL), but not the fcntl and mmap tricks which looks like they'd be really useful.

(concurrency, reference, unix)

Home | Citizen Media Law Project

Free (CC-licensed) legal advice for citizen media creators.

(business, journalism, law, media, reference)

Global is the new private

Comparison of JavaScript frameworks (and some library stuff like GMaps) showing the globals and monkeypatches each framework has. Don't miss the “collision matrix” which shows, at a glance, which frameworks will compete with which others.

(conflicts, frameworks, js, libraries, monkeypatching, namespace, reference)

The Money Meltdown

Really good roundup of links to info about what the fuck's going on.

(2008, business, economics, finance, money, moneymeltdown, reference)

Django cheat sheet (Mercurytide)

Really purty one-page cheat-sheet, updated for Django 1.0.

(cheatsheet, django, python, reference)

The Strange Zen Of JavaScript: Function reference vs. function call

I sometimes think the difference between a good and a bad programmer is an understanding of first-class functions.

(calling, functions, javascript, reference)

Leisure and Business Travel Packing List - Travel Light with One Bag!

(airline, guide, howto, luggage, packing, reference, tips, travel)

ProgrammingLanguageTheoryTextsOnline < Techno < TWiki

If I thought I could actually make it through an entire textbook on a computer screen this would be amazing.

(books, pmscs, programming, reference, theory)

Index of /mercurial/ref/v1.0

A couple of quite nice Mercurial quick-reference cards.

(cheatsheet, hg, mercurial, reference)

Handbook of Applied Cryptography

Recommended by Bruce Schneir and available online for free.

(book, cryptography, encryption, pdf, pmscs, reference, security)

Travel: Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

A useful tool for finding out what's *really* going on when that flight's delayed.

(airline, data, flight, reference)

code.sixapart.com/svn/perlbal/trunk/doc

Yes, there are docs for perlbal; you just need to know where to look. Also see the example configs (up a level and over).

(for:holovaty, perlbal, reference)

About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

Complete guide to about:config. This is the best that I've found.

(config, firefox, mozilla, reference)

Welcome to SeatGuru! Your Guide to Airplane Seats and In-flight Amenities

Finally bookmarking this because I always forget the URL. It's a fantastic tool to help you figure out where to sit on those long flights.

(airline, airlines, airplane, flights, reference, seating, tools, travel)

Free Quicksilver user guide ebook - Lifehacker

(mac, osx, pdf, quicksilver, reference)

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials

Um, wow.

(algorithms, data, datamining, programming, reference, research, science, tutorial)

gotAPI.com - quick developer reference for CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, AJAX, SQL and more

Hey, pretty nifty.

(api, programming, reference)

List of fictional expletives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yippe-kay-yay, Mr. Falcon!

(expletives, funny, language, lists, reference)

Retrosheet

Comprehensive baseball stats through 1984, free for nearly any use.

(baseball, data, history, reference, sports, stats)

NOAA - National Weather Service - Experimental XML data feeds - Current Conditions

I can never find this when I want it.

(data, reference, weather, xml)

The Nagios Book

(book, linux, nagios, reference, sysadmin)

Indexed Repository of RFC Documents [RFC-Ref]

(internet, programming, reference, rfc, standards, webdev)

The Annotated XML Specification

Besides being *very* interesting, this is probably a great example of how to do annotated reference manuals.

(annotation, manual, reference, xml)

Gollum, the Wikipedia Browser

It's Wikipedia, but fast!

(cool, reference, tools, wiki, wikipedia)

The Oxford Shakespeare - Yahoo! Reference

The complete works of Shakespeare with a clean interface and a nice search engine. Thanks, Yahoo!

(literature, reference, shakespeare)