The Web is constantly turning out new and extraordinary services many of us are unfamiliar with. During TED University at this spring's TED2007 in Monterey, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, offered an ultra-fast-moving ride through sites in many different areas, from art, design and illustration, to daily news, blogs and curiosity. Now, by popular demand, here's his list of 100 websites you should know and use 
CURIOSITY & KNOWLEDGE

reuters.com

research.philips.com

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podtropolis.com

papertoys.com

new7wonders.com

lipsum.com

thomasedison.org

beelinetv.com

useit.com

submarinechannel.com/titlesequences

visual-literacy.org

cartype.com

captology.stanford.edu

bannerblog.com_au

ge.com

curiosityshoppeonline.com

creativecommons.org

lawsofsimplicity.com

gnu.org

digg.com

GRAPHICS, MUSIC & ARTS

yugop.com

vincent-vella.com

Are you a planner, or do you like to do things by the seat of your pants? Before we go any further, you have to be honest about this.

Some folks hate to plan. They want everything to be done spontaneously. Spur of the moment. They like surprises. They long for serendipity. And that is great for many things in life, but when you are starting a major life-changing project, such as finding the ideal career, surprises are nice, but so is planning and approaching the project with a sense of order.

Before you install the roof on your house, you first need to have the house erected, and you sure better have a foundation in place.

So planning is good. Say it with me: Planning is GOOD.

Before you start the journey to your new career, you need to answer the following questions HONESTLY! This is the PLAN.

1. Do you have a goal, a dream?
   In one sentence, what is your ultimate goal for this career journey? Do you have a goal? Can you express that goal, or dream?
   If you don't have a goal, start thinking about it. Dream big. Shoot for the moon. There is no right or wrong answer. It is your dream or goal.
   This is the high-level dream, the high-level objective.
   A long, long time ago, when I was 10 years old, I was asked this by a clergyman who was trying to get me to think long term: Warren, what is your goal or dream?
   My answer was simple. I had no idea how or why or if I would be able to achieve it, but I had a dream. My dream was to be a medical missionary.
   My dreams have changed over the years. My ultimate dream or goal avocationally is still the same as it was 30 years ago: I wanted to (and still want to) be a chaplain to terminal and geriatric patients. That has not worked out because of a number of institutional changes and regulations that I found unacceptable. I have not given up on it, but I have moved on.
   So I am in IT. My goal is simple: I want to provide the best training and education I can to make IT fun and understandable to those who take my classes.
   I would also love to earn a Ph.D. and become a professor who can positively affect students entering IT.
   Is that ego? Nope. It's a dream, that's all.
   Remember that you can have more than one dream or goal. But you have to have a dream or goal.
   And you don't necessarily have to give up on your earlier goals. Happenstance might cause them to come to fruition.
   Be ready for the unexpected and be ready to change. But have a goal.

A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design

While the subject of design patterns for software development has been covered extensively, little has been written about the power of the pattern format in interface design 'A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design' remedies this situation, providing for the first time an introduction to the concepts, and application of patterns in user interface design The author shows interface designers how to use patterns to capture and structure user interface design knowledge from their projects, and how to use them to understand each other's design principles and solutions when working with clients and software developers

Antipatterns: Identification, Refactoring, and Management (Applied Software Engineering S)

AntiPatterns: Identification, Refactoring, and Management catalogs 48 bad management practices and environments common to software development, IT, and other organizations The authors cover antipatterns of management, along with environmental/cultural antipatterns and personality antipatterns/phenotypes Through the classification of these harmful practices, you will be able to correctly identify problems in your own work environment, and take action to correct them

Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET

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Design Pattern Formalization Techniques

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Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design

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Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design (2nd Edition) (Software Patterns Series)

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Head First Design Patterns

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Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code

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Object-Oriented Design and Patterns

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Patterns for e-business

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Patterns for Parallel Programming (Software Patterns Series)

The Parallel Programming Guide for Every Software Developer From grids and clusters to next-generation game consoles, parallel computing is going mainstream Innovations such as Hyper-Threading Technology, HyperTransport Technology, and multicore microprocessors from IBM, Intel, and Sun are accelerating the movement's growth Only one thing is missing: programmers with the skills to meet the soaring demand for parallel software

Patterns: Broker Interactions for Intro and Inter-Enterprise (IBM Redbooks)
Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems

Real-time programming guru Bruce Powell Douglass collects the best design patterns from this unique, and rapidly growing, area of programming, and presents them in an instructional format that teaches the reader the 'what, when, and how' of leveraging the significant power of these proven design solutions CD-ROM included User review Excellent book for pattern folk This text is being used in a company wide campaign to improve system Software quality and Time to Market

Remoting Patterns: Foundations of Enterprise, Internet and Realtime Distributed Object Middleware (Wiley Software Patterns Series)

Remoting offers developers many ways to customize the communications process, for efficiency, security, performance and power, and allows seamless integration of components running on several computers into a single application This book exposes the full power of remoting to developers working in mixed platform environments in a way that will ensure they have a deep understanding of what remoting is capable of, and how they can make it work the way they want User review OK for a patterns book Most patterns books are just plain junk; they're full of overhyped, overwritten trivialities

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Ever notice that-in spite of their pervasiveness-designing web applications is still challenging? While their benefits motivate their creation, there are no well-established guidelines for design This often results in inconsistent b

Among thousands, 10 programming languages stand out for their job marketability and wide use. If you're looking to boost your career or learn something new, start here.

Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable as long as the languages are.
Yet, there is beauty in numbers. While there may be developers who have had riches heaped on them by knowing the right programming language at the right time in the right place, most longtime coders will tell you that periodically learning a new language is an essential part of being a good and successful Web developer.
"One of my mentors once told me that a programming language is just a programming language. It doesnt matter if youre a good programmer, its the syntax that matters," Tim Huckaby, CEO of San Diego-based software engineering company CEO Interknowlogy.com, told eWEEK.
However, Huckaby said that while his company is "swimming" in work, hes having a nearly impossible time finding recruits, even on the entry level, that know specific programming languages.


"Were hiring like crazy, but were not having an easy time. Were just looking for attitude and aptitude, kids right out of school that know .Net, or even Java, because with that we can train them on .Net," said Huckaby.

"Dont get fixated on one or two languages. When I started in 1969, FORTRAN, COBOL and S/360 Assembler were the big tickets. Today, Java, C and Visual Basic are. In 10 years time, some new set of languages will be the in thing. …At last count, I knew/have learned over 24 different languages in over 30 years," Wayne Duqaine, director of Software Development at Grandview Systems, of Sebastopol, Calif., told eWEEK.
By picking the brains of Web developers and IT recruiters, eWEEK selected 10 programming languages that are a bonus for developers to add to their resumes. Even better, theyre great jumping-off points, with loads of job opportunities for younger recruits.
1. PHP

What it is: An open-source, interpretive, server-side, cross-platform, HTML scripting language, especially well-suited for Web development as it can be embedded into HTML pages.

Why you should learn it: Its particularly widely used. "High-speed scripting with caching, augmented with compiled code plug-ins (such as can be done with Perl and PHP) is where the future is. Building Web apps from scratch using C or COBOL is going the way of the dinosaur," said Duquaine.

Job availabilities: 1,152*

2. C#

What it is: A general-purpose, compiled, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as part of its .NET initiative, it evolved from C and C++

Why you should learn it: Its an essential part of the .Net framework. "Learning C#, which is just Java with a different name plate, is critical if you heavily use Microsoft," said Duquaine.

Job availabilities: 5,111

3. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

What it is: Though technically not a programming language, AJAX uses XHTML or HTML, JavaScript and XML to create interactive Web applications.

Why you should learn it: Ever since Google Maps put AJAX, well, on the map, the requests for AJAX-knowledgeable pros went through the roof. "The demand for AJAX knowledge is huge because its so damned hard to learn," said Huckaby. Of note, Microsoft announced recently plans to release a tool named Atlas that will make AJAX easier to implement. "If Microsofts Atlas tool is successful, it would bring the extreme complexity and annoyance of AJAX to the average worker," said Huckaby.

Job availabilities : 1,106

4. JavaScript

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Professional Enterprise .NET (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Unique guide to records management methodologies for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 There may be books available on how to develop solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, but this is the first book to provide step-by-step guidance for designing and building records management solutions on the SharePoint platform You'll learn the five core services of any records management system-confidentiality, information integrity, high availability, adherence to policy, and audit ability-then explore the tools and techniques needed to implement them in SharePoint The book helps you understand official records in the context of day-to-day collaboration and regulatory compliance; you'll also learn how to design extensible Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) components with records management as the central focus

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Ivor Horton\'s Beginning Visual C++ 2010 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

The leading author of programming tutorials for beginners introduces you to Visual C++ 2010 Ivor Horton is the preeminent author of introductory programming language tutorials; previous editions of his Beginning Visual C++ have sold nearly 100,000 copies This book is a comprehensive introduction to both the Standard C++ language and to Visual C++ 2010; no previous programming experience is required All aspects of the 2010 release are covered, including changes to the language and the C++ standard,, Microsoft Visual C++ is one of the most popular C++ development environments and compilers, used by hundreds of thousands of developers Ivor Horton's approach to programming tutorials has achieved a huge following; this book gives beginning programmers a comprehensive introduction to both Standard C++ and Visual C++ 2010 Covers all the language changes in Visual C++ 2010, library additions, new MFC features, changes in the Visual Studio development environment, and more Also includes a brief introduction to programming for multicore processors in native C++ and C++/CLR processors Nearly 100,000 copies of this book have been sold in previous editions Beginners seeking a complete education in Visual C++ will find everything they need in Ivor Horton'sBeginning Visual C++ 2010

What is a Design Pattern?


Design Pattern is a re-usable, high quality solution to a given requirement, task or recurring problem. Further, it does not comprise of a complete solution that may be instantly converted to a code component, rather it provides a framework for how to solve a problem.


In 1994, the release of the book Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software made design patterns popular.


Because design patterns consist of proven reusable architectural concepts, they are reliable and they speed up software development process.


Design Patterns are in a continious phase of evolution, which means that they keep on getting better & better as they are tested against time, reliability and subjected to continious improvements. Further, design patterns have evolved towards targeting specific domains. For example, windows-based banking applications are usually based on singleton patterns, e-commerce web applications are based on the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern.




Design Patterns are categorized into 3 types:
Creational Patterns
Structural Patterns
Behavioral Patterns


What are Creational Design Patterns?


The Creational Design Patterns focus on how objects are created and utilized in an application. They tackle the aspects of when and how objects are created, keeping in mind whats the best way these objects should be created.


Listed below are some of the commonly known Creational Design Patterns:

•  Abstract Factory Pattern
•  Factory Pattern
•  Builder Pattern
•  Lazy Pattern
• Prototype Pattern
• Singleton Pattern

Whats the difference between Abstract Factory Pattern and Factory Pattern?


In an abstract factory design, a framework is provided for creating sub-components that inherit from a common component. In .NET, this is achieved by creating classes that implement a common interface or a set of interfaces, where the interface comprises of the generic method declarations that are passed on to the sub-components. TNote that not just interfaces, but even abstract classes can provide the platform of creating an application based on the abstract factory pattern.
Example, say a class called CentralGovernmentRules is the abstract factory class, comprised of methods like ShouldHavePolice() and ShouldHaveCourts(). There may be several sub-classes like State1Rules, State2Rules etc. created that inheriting the class CentralGovernmentRules, and thus deriving its methods as well.


Note that the term "Factory" refers to the location in the code where the code is created.


A Factory Pattern is again an Object creation pattern. Here objects are created without knowing the class of the object. Sounds strange? Well, actually this means that the object is created by a method of the class, and not by the class's constructor. So basically the Factory Pattern is used wherever sub classes are given the priviledge of instantiating a method that can create an object.


Describe the Builder Design Pattern


In a builder design pattern, an object creation process is separated from the object design construct. This is useful becuase the same method that deals with construction of the object, can be used to construct different design constructs.


What is the Lazy Design Pattern?


The approach of the Lazy Design Pattern is not to create objects until a specific requirement matches, and when it matches, object creation is triggered. A simple example of this pattern is a Job Portal application. Say you register yourself in that site thus filling up the registration table, only when the registration table is filled, the other objects are created and invoked, that prompt you to fill in other details too, which will be saved in other tables.

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