Mark Volkmann's Bookmarks

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Books
Cars
Chess
Dogs
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
Education
Entertainment
Family
File Sharing
Finance
Humor
Language Translation
Macintosh
Maps
Medical
Music
OCI
Personal Web Sites
Programming
Reference
Sports
Science
Slide Rules
Weather

Books - top
- AbeBooks
- AddALL - book search and price comparison
- Amazon
- Bartleby - great books online
- Bookpool
- BookServer
- Free Online Books
- MySimon
- Nerd Books
- Overstock
- Pragmatic Bookshelf

Cars - top
- Kelley Blue Book
- Tire Rack
- True Cost of Ownership

Chess - top
- Jeremy's highest ranking
- U.S. Chess Federation

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias - top
- Dictionary.com
- Merriam-Webster
- Urban Dictionary
- Wikipedia

Dogs - top
- Andauer Whippets - owner of Rudy's father, Dominick
- Dresslers Dog Supplies
- Harmony Whippets - where we got Rudy

Education - top
- Missouri 529 College Savings Plan (MOST)
- MIT Open Courseware
- MIT video lectures
- St. Charles Community College
- UC Berkeley lectures
- University of Missouri at Columbia
- University of Missouri at St. Louis

Entertainment - top
- 43 Things
- AMC Theatres
- Criminal Searches
- Internet Movie Database
- Life in the Office - "The Office" inside info., sound clips, quotes and more
- Sauce Restaurant Guide
- The Bitterest Pill
- The Office - NBC T.V. show
- This American Life
- Wehernberg Theatres

Family - top
- Richard von Volkmann-Leander

File Sharing - top
- RapidShare

Finance - top
- Bank of America
- Charles Schwab
- Discover
- Scottrade

Humor - top
- Angry Alien - 30-second versions of popular movies acted by bunnies
- Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Don't Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford
- Housewife Scam
- Missile Guidance
- PowerPoint Suicide
- The Onion

Language Translation - top
- Babel Fish
- Google Language Tools

Macintosh - top
- .Mac Welcome
- Apple Feedback
- Apple Home
- Cocoa vi Input Manager - patches the Cocoa Text System to add a vi-like command mode
- iRed Lite - software for Apple Remotes - can control PowerPoint
- Quicksilver
  - Get To Know
  - Video Extravaganza
- VersionTracker

Maps - top
- Google Earth
- Google Maps
- MapQuest

Medical - top
- Calories Burned Estimator
- Mayo Clinic
- St. Louis Pollen and Mold
- WebMD

Music - top
- Deezer - listen to full songs for free
- Last.fm
- Pandora

OCI - top
- Book Library
- CAIT
- CAIT Attendance Policy
- Class Schedules
- Employee Directory
- Employee Handbook
- Home
- Internal/Private
- Java Lunch Schedule
- JBoss Support
- JNB
  - Articles
  - Author Guide
  - Schedule
- Mailing Lists
- Project Open
- Request Tracker (RT)
- Software Development Process - (SDP) a local link
- Strategy Wiki
- System Admin. Requests - sends email to Chuck Renner and Bill Bird
- WebMail
- Website Statistics - username/password in Address Book
- Wiki - new
- Wiki - old

Personal Web Sites - top
- MySpace
- Volkmann
- Volkmann .Mac
- Whalen

Programming - top
- Adobe
  - ActionScript 3
    - Language Reference
  - AIR
    - Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
    - main site
  - Flex 3
  - MXML
    - Language Reference
  - WebKit
    - main site
- AJaX
- Benchmarks
  - Computer Language Benchmarks Game
- Blogs
  - Alex Miller
  - Bob Lee
  - Brian Gilstrap
  - Charles Nutter - JRuby
  - Dale Wilson
  - Eric Burke
  - Joel Spolsky
  - Kyle Cordes
  - Mike Easter
  - Steve Jacobs
  - Tim Bray
  - Weiqi Gao
- Character Sets
  - ASCII
  - Unicode
- Compilers
  - How difficult is it to write a compiler?
- CSS
  - CSS Reference
  - CSS Repertoire
- Databases
  - MySQL
  - OODBs flawed - post from Austin Ziegler on ruby-talk
  - SQLite
    - intro. video
    - main site
- Editors and IDEs
  - Eclipse
  - Eclipse Plug-ins
  - IDEA
    - IdeaVIM - Vim plugin for IDEA
    - JetBrains
  - Vim
    - home
    - lots of themes!
    - macVim
    - Seven Habits of Effective text editing 2.0 - Google Talk video with Bram Moolenaar
    - The Cult of vi
    - Vim-Ruby info. at RubyGarden
- Functional Programming
  - SICP in Other Languages
- HTML
  - Browser-safe Colors
  - Color Blendy - select a color on left and right, then press buttons in middle to select a third, compatible color
  - Color Scheme Designer
  - HTML 4.01 Specification
- HTTP
  - Geocode Information - from LimeWire
  - Status Codes
- Icons
  - Icon King
- koders - search through lots of source code on the web
- Languages
  - C
  - C#
    - How Do I in C#?
  - C++
    - cplusplus.com
    - Dinkum Compleat Libraries Reference
  - Clojure
    - main site
    - Programming Clojure book
  - Groovy
    - API doc
    - Home
    - My JNB
  - Haskell
  - Java
    - Ant
      - Manual
    - API documentation
      - Hibernate
      - iBATIS
      - Java
      - JUnit
      - Log4J
      - NetBeans Platform
      - SoyLatte - X11-based port of Java 6 for Mac OS X on Intel processors
      - Spring
    - Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
      - AspectJ
        
        home
        
        Java 5 reflection and annotation API
        
        runtime API
        
        weaver API
    - Conventions
      - Sun Code Conventions for Java
      - Sun How to Write Javadoc
    - Database Access
      - Abator - code generator for iBATIS
      - Groovy Object Relational Mapping - (GORM)
      - Hibernate
      - iBATIS
      - Java Persistence API - (JPA)
      - JDBC
    - EJB
      - JBoss TrailBlazer - teaches how to use EJB 3.0 with JBoss 4
    - Example code - supplement to the "Java Developers Almanac"
    - Gateway Java User Group
    - Home
    - J2EE Servers
      - Apache Tomcat
        
        Configuring and Using Apache Tomcat
        
        home
      - JBoss
    - Java for Mac OS X
      - Features
      - Finding Your Way Around
    - Logging
      - Log4J
    - Maven
      - Guides
      - Home
      - User Guide
    - No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums
    - Portlets
      - Introduction to JSR 168 from Sun
    - Spring Framework
      - home page
      - Spring DAOs with iBATIS
    - St. Louis Java User Group
    - St. Louis JUG Yahoo! Group
    - Swing
      - Beans Binding - JSR-295
      - EventBus
      - Filthy Rich Clients
      - FoxTrot - for using threads with Swing
      - Glazed Lists
      - GNU gettext - translates strings for internationalization
      - JGoodies
      - modzswing - Mozilla web browser for use in Swing
      - Swing Applications Framework - JSR-296
      - Swing Applications Framework javadoc - JSR-296
      - SwingLabs
      - SwingX - extensions to Swing; part of the SwingLabs project
      - SwingX javadoc
    - Testing
      - Cactus
      - EasyMock - tool for generating mock object code
      - HttpUnit
      - JUnit
      - Mock Objects - IBM article
  - JavaFX Script
  - JavaScript
    - Douglas Crawford articles
    - Libraries
  - JRuby
    - Blogs
    - JRuby Home
    - JRuby Wiki
    - Nabble Forums - search of JRuby dev and user mailing list archives
  - Lisp & variants (Clojure has its own topic)
  - Ruby
    - ActiveRecord
      - ActiveRecord - O/R mapping framework
      - Composite Keys ActiveRecord Plug-in
    - Camping
    - Google style and usage guide
    - Hackety Hack - Why the Lucky Stiff tool for learning Ruby
    - Home
    - Mongrel - web server
    - One-Click Installer (OCI) - Windows Ruby installer
    - Pickaxe book - 1st edition
    - Ruby-Doc
    - Ruby Kitchen Sink - search engine for Ruby-related content
    - Shoes - GUI toolkit from WhyTheLuckyStiff
    - St. Louis Ruby User Group Google Group
    - St. Louis Ruby User Group Wiki
    - Try Ruby - an interactive tutorial
    - Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby
    - XRuby - a Ruby to Java bytecode compiler
    - ZenTest - suite of testing tools
  - Scala
    - Programming Scala - O'Reilly book by Dean Wampler
  - Scheme
  - Smalltalk
    - Design Principles Behind Smalltalk
    - free online books
    - learning
    - Smalltalk.org
    - Squeak
    - Squeak by Example open-source book
    - Squeak Smalltalk grammar
    - The World of Smalltalk - a collection of Smalltalk-related information
    - versions/implementations
- Miscellaneous
  - PeopleData - people search
  - Scalable computer programming languages
- Parser Generators
  - ANTLR
    - documentation
    - home page
- Processes
  - If they come, how will they build it? - stresses the importance of documentation for new developers on a project
  - SEI/CMMI
  - XP
    - St. Louis XP User Group
- UML
  - gliffy
  - Violet
- UNIX
- Version Control
  - ClearCase
  - CVS
  - Git
    - Home
    - Pro Git book
  - Subversion
    - Home
- Web App. Frameworks
  - Echo2
  - Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
    - Home
  - Java Server Faces (JSF)
  - Lively Kernel from Sun Labs
    - home page
  - Spring Web MVC
  - Struts
  - Struts 2
  - Tapestry
  - Wicket
- Web Services
  - Andre Tost: My top 10 Web service issues
  - REST
    - JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
    - My JNB article - from November 2004
- XML
  - JAXP
  - JDOM
  - oXygen XML editor
  - RELAX NG
    - 10 Reasons To Use Relax NG
  - Saxon
  - Schematron
    - news from Rick Jelliffe on 2/19/07
  - WAX - Writing API for XML
  - Xalan
  - Xerces
  - Xerces APIs

Reference - top
- Wikipedia

Science - top
- How Stuff Works

Slide Rules - top
- Greg's Slide Rules

Sports - top
- ESPN
- Running
  - Anybody Can Do It Speech
  - ESPN Track and Field News Wire
  - Feed The Warrior - Lance Armstrong TV commercial for Dick's
  - Marathons
  - Nova Marathon Challenge
  - Running Calculator
  - Running Is Life - video from Brooks
  - St. Louis Track Club
  - St. Louis Ultrarunners Group (SLUG)
  - Stores
  - Stretching

Weather - top
- AccuWeather Saint Charles Hour by Hour Forecast
- The Weather Channel