Technical Resources
It's Been a Long, Strange Trip
New Hope for the Clueless
- You may have noticed that pressing the "help" button sometimes only summons up more confusion. While it can be difficult to obtain specific information from "help", you can hardly go wrong taking the tutorials often offered on the "help" menu, preferably as soon as you get the wrapper off the package. Sometimes these tutorials are obscurely labeled, so try each item on the menu.
- A direct line into the Jungian Universal Unconcious would reveal all wisdom. The next best thing is Internet access. Consult the
Frequently Asked Questions
in all matters..
- What Does That Stand For?
Acronym Server
- Here's a little
(or a lot of)
information about all those .#%!
extension codes.
- Arcane secrets revealed! The inner meanings of your browser's
error codes .
- There's not a lot of material here, but at least you won't get a busy signal for days on end.
Packard Bell
... Now We're Getting Somewhere
- Baby steps in
Object Orientation
may be taken here. If you'd like something familiar to hold on to, Micro Focus has
Object Cobol.
- Basic has come up in the world --addressable statements, file I/O, case logic -- almost like a real language. Old assembler programmers can take up "C", but Visual Basic is what most people start writing graphical programs in. There's more material for learning it than for any other language, and more places to go for help. Start with the
Visual Basic Home Page
- Reviews and Downloads of All Those Mysterious "Helper" Applications -- Viewers, Editors, Utilities, and Much More on
Stroud's CWSApps List
- H(yper)T(ext)M(ark-up)L(anguage) is what homepages are written in. It's what you should be writing documentation in, too. The hardest of the Iron-Agers thought documentation was for sissies, but that was before they had budget responsibility for maintenance.
Nuthin' But Links
to HTML resources has good original material, too. ( See especially the "Do's and Don't's".)
- Someone who got in on the ground floor of
graphics and multi-media
applications tells all.
- Before you start pasting goodies into your website, learn a little about
Copyright Law .
- A reprimanded child friend of mine complained, "It's hard to be good all the time". For those times, sneak into Materva's Hideout.
What makes this the quintessential hacker site is that its proprietor has not only great links, but also a major attitude.
- If this stuff is starting to make sense to you, you may be ready for the
Nerd's Revolution@ry Front. (The NRF's proprietor, Steve Webb, gave me the model code for my navigation bar.)
- Exceeded your limits? Pay a visit to the Bandwidth Conservation Society .
The Road Ahead Goes On Forever
- The San Jose Mercury bills itself as the hometown paper of Silicon Valley. This is a Sunday feature they ran on local construction plans for
Information Superhighway 101.
- Back in the '60s, reality for was people who couldn't handle drugs. This is why we say, "If you remember the '60s, you weren't really there". Now we have
Virtual Reality.
- Not everyone thinks you can support teeming millions of users wanting instant response and access to massive databases off a UNIX box. " Multi-platform support!", they cry. "You need one of
Big Blue's 390s!
- Do you know what your date edit routines are doing? Explore the horrors of the
Year 2000.
... and There's More!
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