Links of Interest



1. Intro


When you click a link that says 'Links', what do you expect. Exactly.

If you already browsed through most of our site you probably already have some idea of what kind of links to expect. We will definitely start out with, but not limit ourselves to links for coders and designers. To make a change with all the technical stuff we will however start off with Art, with a capital 'A'.


Yes, designers, we know, this is also in your realm. But when we talk specifically 'design', we mean tools and ideas for web and interactive multimedia design, or examples of particularly nice design (in our humble opinion).


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2. Now for something completely...


Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Fundación Juan March, Cuenca, Spain


As the name implies, this is mainly about abstract art from the likes of Millares, Tàpies, Sempere, Torner, Rueda, Zóbel, Saura... Housed in a late-fifteenth-century medieval building, this is a museum that has a marvellous location and a web site which carries virtual tours. Designers may be interested in the art work to pick some ideas for textures and patterns... And if you go, also check out the museum underneath the cathedral: it has a painting from 'El Griego'.



Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Fundación Juan March, Cuenca, Spain

Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain


This one doesn't really require an introduction. It is well known, and its extensive collection has something to everyone's taste.



Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France


After you have seen the Louvre (or before, for that matter) you may want to submerge yourself in parisien history in this one.



Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France

Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom


Of course you want to see Tate when you are in London. But for something a bit smaller and very interesting give this one a chance to impress.



Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom



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3. For the designers amongst you


Smashing Magazine


This site always shows links to some of the most interesting designs one can think of in web design.



Smashing Magazine



Veerle's Blog


Looking for design info and ideas. This is a good place to start from.



Veerle's Blog

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4. For the coders amongst you


W3


For everything that is non propriety and standardized this is the place to find references and tutorials. HTML, CSS, ... and much more, it is all here and up to date.



W3


PHP


PHP is standardized and runs the logic behind the forms to connect to databases on many web sites. Powerful way of dynamically controlling your web site through functions thus avoiding a lot of repeat code. Also essential for passing session variables from page to page.



PHP

jQuery


This is what makes JavaScript powerful and easy to use. Nice results without the pain.



jQuery

Pure MVC


Frameworks - it's all you see and hear at the conferences. Some are 3D frameworks, some are wrappers around other functions to make our life easier. But the ones we are really interested in are the MVC frameworks. MVC stands for Model - View - Control. Which means these try to keep as much as possible the content data, the layout and the control logic separate. It is why we have CSS files, PHP files and JS files separate from our HTML files. MVC kind of pushes this idea a bit further along. Ruby on Rails is a good example, so is the PHP Zend Framwork. The one we present here is called PureMVC.



PureMVC

PaperVision3D


When it comes to 3D it is not the only kid on the block, but it is one that has been around for a few years now and is quite widely used. Also look into Unity3D and even HTML5/CSS3 for alternatives.



PaperVision 3D

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5. For the freeloaders amongst you


Geany


For if you want to edit some scripting code, without being bugged down by a full blown 'do-it-all-for-you' package that eats up resources. Available for both Windows and Linux. Great colour coding and end tag generation.



Geany


Eclipse


A heavy hitter supported by IBM and available for Windows and Linux. Complete development platform, with several projects supporting all kinds of different languages. Thecore is Java, but C/C++, Web Development Tools for HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript can all be made part of it. Not to forget tools for version control and tools for development for Adobe AIR and for the Android platform. Look at loading Aptana Studio in Eclipse for access to Adobe AIR, Android and RADRails development.



Eclipse

NetBeans


What IBM is to eclipse, sun is to NetBeans. Another constantly evolving complete development platform for way more than just Java.



NetBeans

MySQL


Any idea how many web sites have a MySQL database backend? Sun, now Oracle, stands behind this one. The European Union made sure that Oracle could only take over Sun provided that MySQL would not be jeopardized.



MySQL

Linux Distributions


Linux is the Unix look-a-like brainchild from Linux Torvalds. Linux is the operating system kernel. The distributions are built around it. Here are some of the most popular distributions:



Ubuntu


Fedora


openSUSE

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