Blogs

The Lone Cyclist!
"With my life a smoking ash-heap, I left Australia in July 2004 resolved to ride until I found a reason to live again - the lost divine spark."
Interesting travel - cycling - in - South - East - Asia - adventure - laughter - and - tears - dropout intelligently - mental weblog by Mr. Felix and Mr. Pumpy.

Konsumkinder
Everything you always wanted to know about Austria but were afraid to ask.  (German)

Hans On Tour
Travelling the world. (German)

Hausmasta
Featuring "The Superfun Kick-Ass Movie Guessing" (German)

Haboglabobloggin': p3k.org (Piefke 3000)
Your daily dose of everything.

Art

Nick-K @ Flickr
Dark Photoshopped Art

Thomas Metz Photography
The title says it all!

Web Design and Development

SelfHTML
The Best Online Resource/Documentation for HTML; also covers CSS, Javascript, etc... (German)

CSS Zen Garden
Best inspiration to create CSS based web design. Tons of eye candy.

PHP
Easy-to-use yet powerful free programming language mainly for web development.

Ruby on Rails
Free web-application framework based on the powerful object-oriented free programming language Ruby. 

MySQL
Powerful, fast and reliable open-source database server.

Apache httpd
Most commonly used open-source web server with excellent modules. 

Lighttpd
A "light" yet powerful alternative to the Apache httpd web server. 

XCache
PHP opcode cacher for better server performance by the Lighttpd creators, currently running on the server of this website.

Silverstripe
Open-source web application framework and content management system (CMS) using PHP and MySQL. Silverstripe powers this website since December 2007. If you are looking for a CMS try the Silverstripe demo administration system.

Utter Ramblings
Great File repository for Web Servers and Virtual Private Servers (VPS) running on RHEL or CentOS.

Entropy.ch
Great resource of software if you happen to develop on a Mac.

Eclipse
Open-source development platform. Originally for Java development, but you can easily extend it, e.g. PHPEclipse and RadRails. Good for all your web design and development needs and more (assuming you like clean code and don't use WYSIWYG either).

Ubuntu / Beryl
Great and free Linux distribution that rocks together with the Beryl window manager. A serious desktop alternative to Windows or Mac with tons of free and very powerful software available.

Firefox
The browser you can't live without if you develop web sites. I recommend the following add-ons:

  • ColorZilla
  • Copy Plain Text
  • CSS Viewer
  • Download Statusbar
  • Execute JS
  • Gmail Manager
  • Google Calendar Notifier
  • Google Notebook
  • HackBar
  • HtmlValidator
  • IE Tab (on Windows)
  • MeasureIt
  • Quick Locale Switcher
  • Regular Expressions Tester
  • Save As Image
  • Server Spy
  • SlimSearch
  • SubmitToTab
  • TimeStamp Converter
  • View Source Chart
  • Web Developer (this is a must)
  • Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool

Google Apps
Possibility to transfer your domain specific email addresses to a (free) Google Mail system. If you are not afraid that Google will one day eat your soul then you might consider to sacrifice your pride for a really good webmail system with POP/IMAP capability, an excellent spam filter and with up to 100 users per domain name for free with heaps of space available for each user. It is also possible to receive alias emails and emails from different domains into one user account and reply with different email addresses from one account (e.g. if you administer mail@mydomain.com, info@mydomain.com, contact@mydomain.com, etc...). On top of that every user account has a Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Talk, and a number of other in my opinion less important stuff that you may want to disable. To use Google Apps you need to be able to change DNS MX entries for your domain and DNS CNAME entries if you want nicer webmail URLs such as mail.mydomain.com.