A collection of quick references to serve as study guides, learning aids, patterns, reminders, or whatever other description may apply. Use them freely and as often as you need to help solve problems and resolve uncertainty.
Keep in mind, as you refer to these or other resources you may seek or discover on your own, understanding is more important than memorization. That's why even experienced developers depend on references.
PHP Language
- PHP Operators
- Arithmetic, Assignment, Comparison, Logical
- PHP Function List
- At last! The elusive URL to the hyperlinked list of PHP functions. So far, the PHP provides 3,220 built-in functions.
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
- W3C XML Technical Reports
- World Wide Web Consortium'ss (W3C) XML activity.
Project Development
- Web Application Requirements
- A simple yet very practical tool to help capture and organize requirements for a web application. Based on the six questions; who, what, why, when, where, how
- Application Interface Specification Matrix
- A handy tool to organize application specifications (details) based on an Interface-centric approach. Identify and name the interface (e.g. screen), then list the expected user events, data presented, data needed for input, client functions, and server processes.
- Software Test Plan
- A template for a very formal test plan (MS Word format). Although you'sre not required to produce a plan this detailed, the template provides useful insight. Adapted from the IEEE Standard for Software Test Documentation
General Coding, Programming, etc...
- ASCII Character Code Chart
- Classic, basic set of character encodings we encounter each day. Character code values given in decimal, hexadecimal, and octal.
- Unicode Character Code Charts
- Useful visual aid to cross reference characters and their hexadecimal equivalents.
- Base 64 Character Coding [Web Service]
- Encode plain text strings as Base 64 encoded text. Decode Base 64 encoded text to plain text. Use this simple, REST-based web service to study the encoding scheme used for MIME encoding.
- Hash String Encoding [Web Service]
- Generate one-way hash encoded strings from plain text. Avaliable hash encodings: MD5.
- Hexadecimal Character Coding [Web Service]
- Encode plain text strings as hexadecimal encoded character strings. Decode hexadecimal encoded characters to plain text. This handy service provides a simple means to study the coding scheme commonly used in computing to represent program data.
- URL Character Coding [Web Service]
- Encode plain text as URL encoded text. Decode URL encoded text to plain text. Use this simple, REST-based web service to study URL Character Coding. Service presentation defaults to a graphical user interface.
- Apache HTTP Server Documentation [Version 1.3] | [Version 2.0]
- Learn how http servers function by browsing the Apache server documentation. Review the Apache module index to see the core features of the world'ss most popular http server. Get a closer look by exploring the Apache Directive Index and learn in detail how configurations define server policies.
- CSS Property Index
- Well organized index of style properties defined by the cascading style sheet language. The author provides succinct definitions and clear examples.
Dummy Text, Data, etc...
- Lorem Ipsum
- Dummy text traditionally used by printers and typesetters as a visual aid during layout design.