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General IT Information

Hardware

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Software

Linux

• Useful Linux Command Line Stuff
• Linux Training Academy

Linux Distros

• Tails Privacy centric bistro that protects against surveillance and censorship
• ProxMox
• Linux Mint
• Kali

Windows

• Useful Windows Command Line Stuff

Mac

• Useful Mac Command Line Stuff

Cloud Ops

• H2 run Java apps in EC3 - Running a Java app on an AWS EC2 Linux server with S3 Storage access - a step by step guide.

IT Links

• CodeRunner A lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE for macOS. (PAID)
• Smoothwall Open Source Firewall
• Min IO a high-performance, S3 compatible object store.
• Geoff Chappell Software Analyst
• LifeWire Tech News
• MicroK8 Ubuntu Kubernetes
• IT - Tools Handy tools for Developers - Conversions, barcodes, huge numbers of useful things

Networking

Networking Links

• Networking Basics (What you really need to know)
• Networking - Physical Layer
• Networking - OSI Model
• Networking - Application Layer

Network Protocols

• Border Gateway Protocol (Wikipedia)

Network Services

Information about network based services with a focus on technologies useful to makers

• NTP Network Time Protocol
• File Sharing Incl FTP, SMB, AFP, NFS TFTP etc.
• SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
• Logging
• Email Incl. SMTP, POP, IMAP
• Streaming
• Web http, https
• SSH Secure Shell
• MQTT MQ Telemetry Transport (prev. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport)
• TCP Sockets Basic TCP data transfer

Utilities and Software Tools

• MX ToolBox Network and DNS tools
• What is my IP address
• DNS Checker.org Various network test tools including IP address WhoIs.
• DNS Benchmark tool Tests DNS speed from a long list of public servers
• HomeBrew CLI software Packet Manager/Installer for Mac & Linux
• Alternative to Tool for finding alternative software packages.

Coding

• Roadmap Roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help guide developers in picking up a path and guide their learnings.
• Learn Programming - Sites that have information useful to people learning to program
• Regular Expression (RegEx)

Programming and Development

Web Dev

• WP Hacks
• xCloner Wordpress Backups
• Content Robot
• Wix
• W3Schools
• CSS Play
• web.dev

HTML5/CSS

• Semantic
• Bootstrap
• Foundation
• Get UI kit
• 960 grid system
• Skeleton
• Less
• Yaml
• Helium
• Metro
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Lime
• MontageJS
• CreateJS

Javascript

• jQuery
• Prototype
• Yahoo UI library
• Backbone
• Underscore
• Dojo
• AngularJS
• EmberJS

Ruby

• Ruby on rails
• Sinatra
• Ramaze
• Halcyon
• Padrino

Python

• Django
• Gears
• Web2Py
• Cherry
• Flask
• Tutorials Tonight Python tutorials for beginners (ultimate guide)

PHP

• Zend
• Symphony
• Cake
• Codeigniter
• Laravel
• PhalconPHP
• Silex
• Slim
• Yii
• FuelPHP

Perl

• Catalyst
• Gantry
• Mojolicious
• Perl dancer

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET

Java

• Spring
• Vaadin
• GWT
• Hibernate
• Play

Server side Javascript

• NodeJS
• Meteor

NoSQL databases

• MongoDB
• CouchDB
• OrientDB
• Redis
• Hyperdex
• Clusterpoint

Relational databases

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• sqLite