The Nerdery - Links

Links to pages that I like or frequently visit.

My UDel Site: This is the original location of The Nerdery, but now it's a place for me to host professional and contact information, should a professor or prospective employer need that sort of thing.
The UD Mountain Biking Club: This is a site for—you guessed it—The UD Mountain Biking Club. I'm pretty proud of the site design here, but no one really uses the site at all. Sad day!

Lance Lavelle: Lance is a wannabe Canadian with a neat site that's almost never updated. Great fun, nonetheless.
Megan Lavelle: Lance's younger sister, the Seaford Whore. She has a fun site chock full of flame wars and local whore biographies.
Shaun Gallagher: Shaun likes to ask me for advice on web design and coding, then go and do the exact opposite. He updates his blog frequently, and occasionally I'm quoted. Whee.
Noel Dietrich: A neat little blog that's sometimes sad, sometimes happy, but always spastic.
Jane Lim: Jane is a LiveJournal junkie. But I'll forgive her for that.
Mike Picollelli: I know Mike through Lance. He also likes to make fun of stupid people, but doesn't like to update his site much. He has a comic strip, which is frequently updated and always funny.

The Onion: The best source for fake news. Ever.
The Best Page in the Universe: Some fun battles with the Intellectual Proletariat. This guy says what the rest of us only wish we had the balls to say.
Bible Babble: "Exposing the evil in Christianity since 1998". Truly a great site. Kinda brings a tear to my eye, it's so bluntly honest.
College Humor: This has been getting pretty lame over the years, but some of the submitted photos are funny. Check out the cartoons.
Something Awful: Making fun of stupid people, creating fun photoshop fakes, reviewing bad porn, demoralizing the populus. All in a day's work at Something Awful.

Photo.net: Great tutorials and community, but poor forum software. Great resource for finding just about any kind of photography information.
Rob Galbraith: Digital Photography Insights: Great site for anything related to digital photography. Rob reviews a ton of camera equipment with detailed reports. There's also a good community.
The Luminous Landscape: Great tutorials and information. Haven't explored much past that.
By Thom: I'm a Nikon whore and so is Thom, so it's a perfect match. Thom has good, critical reviews of Nikon equipment.
Digital Photography Review: Great reviews of digital photography equipment. It's usually the first site to have previews and reviews of new equipment. The community tends to be on the amateur point-and-shoot side and the forum software is pretty bad, too.
Photo Points: Great community for all kinds of remarkable photography. This is the site I use for critiques of my own photos. I've not looked through the tutorials or other information much, so I can't comment on that.
Digital Photography Challenge: Great examples of what can be done with digital photography.

ArsTechnica: The best computer and technology site out there. Good articles, great news coverage and a huge community of helpful people. Slashdot is for tools.
GoBe Software: Creators of the recently deceased BeOS, <tear>. Seriously, what a great start for an OS, such a shame. They still make GoBe Productive, a powerful desktop publishing suite.
Haiku: Formerly known as OpenBeOS, this is probably the best bet for a good recreation of BeOS.
FreeBSD: FreeBSD, the "other *nix", has been kicking Linux's ass for years. It's my top choice for an open source operating system. In fact, it's the OS that runs this server.
Linux is for Bitches: The name says it all.

World Wide Web Consortium: The organization that makes the standards for HTML, XML, CSS, etc. Code by the standards, or endure my wrath. If you're a web developer, be sure to use the validators to check your code.
W3 Schools: The best place to learn how to code to standards.
Eric Meyer's CSS Information: Eric Meyer is the master of CSS; all bow down before him.
Eric Meyer's css/edge: A great example of Eric's CSS prowess. Think CSS is bunk? Go here to find out that you're wrong.
A List Apart: A decent tutorial site on how to use standards-compliant methods for real-world applications.
Real World Style: Not an very exhaustive site, but useful information all the same.
Glish.com: Another good site for standards compliant web design.
DevShed: The tutorials are mostly useless, but the discussion forums can be helpful.
The Web Standards Project: The people who helped change the face of the web, for the better. They are the ones that convinced the browser makers to support web standards instead of proprietary coding methods. And they're still at it.
PHP: Possibly to easiest server-side scripting language ever. And not too skimpy on features, either. It's what I use, so I guess I'm biased.
PostgreSQL: The open-source RDBMS of choice for web developers and many others. I switched from MySQL a while back, and my only regret is not doing it sooner. Subqueries, views and transactions, oh my!