2011 1

HTML 4 & 5: The complete Reference

HTML 4 & 5: The Complete Reference is an iPhone / iPad app that does exactly what it says: a reference for HTML 4 and 5. It has a list of all tags, clearly demarcated as HTML4, HTML5 or both. The application is fairly easy to scroll through to find the tag or attribute you want. Clicking on a tag, you get: a brief description of what it’s for what attributes are valid – the good part is you can see clearly which attributes are specific to the element, and which ones are common (like class, id, etc.). You can also see the possible values for the attribute, which helps. and an example of how the tag is used. The examples are quite simplistic, and there’s only one per tag, but it does have a rendered version of the code, which helps. You can also scroll through the list of attributes and see which tags they’re valid for. ...

2006 2

The OReilly Code Quiz

The O’Reilly Code Quiz shows a snippet of code and asks you to guess which book it could be from (given a choice of 4). It’s addictive.

O Reilly Code Search

Code search within O’Reilly books.

2005 1

Tech books for free

Tech books for free from O’Reilly. Speaking of which, it looks like you can read whole books on Google Print.

2004 1

Gmail is not bad

O’Reilly on why Gmail is not bad.

2002 2

Essential Blogging

Essential Blogging: a book on weblogging. Quite good. Technie note: This RSS thing looks interesting. Daypop has started offering RSS output. Need to see how I can use it.

Build an antenna

Something else I’d like to do: build an antenna (or any wireless device, for that matter).