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Friday, July 27, 2007

To Leech: Torrent Trackers


PRV - private tracker
PUB - public tracker
A - All types of contents
G - Mostly games
P - Mostly porn

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To Read: Python Documentation

Let's say you want to learn the wonderful Python language. Or else, you want to revive your memory. It's useful to have a bunch of quality references for that porpuse:

Tutorials:
http://docs.python.org/tut/ - A complete tutorial by Guido Van Rossum
Crash Course - Crash Course by Stephen Saville and Andrew Lusk (slide based) based on Van Rossum's tutorial (UNIX oriented). Good to learn, great to remember.
Dive Into Python - from novice to pro this book is probably the most complete resource of information about Python by Mark Pilgrim.
A Quick Painless Tutorial On The Python language - A tutorial by Norman Matloff
http://www.upriss.org.uk/python/PythonCourse.html - a Python course by example.
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Python/CatalogPython.htm - a catalog of python examples by categories which is very well organized, complete. It also includes screenshots of the output of examples with its source code.

Other:

http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/python - fast course into main python concepts
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ - How to think like a computer scientist is another introductory material displayed by topic.
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython - Thinking in Python: a book on more advanced concepts like unit testing, Template Method, Iterators, Factories, Function Objects, Table-Driven Code, Callbacks, Multiple Dispatching, Pattern Refactoring and others. It uses examples and a description useful for Java coders.

References:

Python - Official website of Python
Python Reference Manual
Python Library Reference
http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html - Introductory Material in Python. Beyond the less technical introductions take a look at the "Quick References".

Special topics:
Tutorial on Iterators and Generators
Python for Fun - Python for fun is a collection of very interesting python programs on games, interation with other programming languages (ProLog, Lisp), GUI development (Tkinter, WXpython), SQL and more by Chris Meyers.
http://www.learningpython.com/tutorial-index/ - a blog of one man's journey into Python. This post includes a nice tutorial index for python development with GTK and PyGame. Unfortunately, no wxpython...
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_1.html - Charming Python: An introduction to XML tools on Python. (check also http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ for more on text processing in Python)

More - in http://freecomputerbooks.com/ (search for "python")

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Monday, April 30, 2007

To Watch and Learn: Screencasts Online!

http://screencastsonline.com -
this is a weekly video podcast of computer based video tutorials. The video tutorials cover many different topics from week to week but predominantly cover mac related subjects together with the latest web based services, so there are plenty of shows for both mac and windows users.

The video tutorials are in the form of "screencasts" which are basically a video of a screen capture demonstrating a particular application or service, with a spoken commentary explaining what is happening on screen.

Since these are also "podcasts" it means that you can not only use your computer to watch them but also a video iPod!


http://showmedo.com - This is a collection of video tutorials made by kind peers for you to learn new skills. The main subject on these screencasts is open source tools and anyone can submit its videos sharing theirknowledge. An interesting feature of this website is the "video requests" option where people can submit ideas for new videos and vote them to test its interest by the community.


http://www.bestechvideos.com/ - Another website with the same style that also includes videos about Conferences and Companies. This one also features a nice search engine and definitely diserves a visit.

There are many other good website like these appearing and growing. Those are just 3 very good examples of it. Other good places to seek are:
http://www.youtube.com
http://video.google.com
http://video.yahoo.com

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A Ler

http://caradelua.blogspot.com/ - Um blog generalista muito divertido e com muita vida e muitas referências a cinema, futebol (em particular, ao S.L.Benfica), poesia e outras formas de arte . De uma amiga e colega de faculdade este blog inclui ainda muitas curiosidades, ideias polémicas e notícias interessantes.

http://www.havidaemmarkl.com/
- Este é o site pessoal de Nuno Markl que também conta com um blog reflecte muito da sua personalidade e do seu humor.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

To Bookmark

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