Finding Support

These networking tools will help you find support and assistance within the freelancing community.

1. Writers-Editors Network: This community connects writers and editors with special tools for finding inspiration, mentors, jobs and more.
2. All Freelance Work: All Freelance Work provides freelancers with articles and messages boards about creating a marketable portfolio, pursuing work-from-home assignments, starting your own business and finding gigs.
3. Freelance UK: Freelancers based in the UK use this network to learn about the business, get tax and insurance advice and meet up with other freelancers through the site’s forum.
4. Freelance Mom: Freelance Mom sponsors “a support network for women working from home.” Get tips on finding a job and marketing your business or link up with the Freelance Mom Network to promote your work and meet other moms through blogging.
5. FreelanceSwitch: This go-to website provides a wealth of resources for active freelancers. Visit the job board to search jobs, read and comment on blog posts to get great advice from the pros, or network on the site’s inclusive forum.
6. Freelance Folder: Become a part of this freelance and entrepreneur community by linking up with its blogroll or contributing blog posts of your own. You’ll also find tons of articles about dealing with clients, setting up a home office and networking.
7. Freelancers Union: Becoming a member of the Freelancers Union grants you access to insurance deals, new jobs, and plenty of community support.
8. Canadian Freelance Union: Empower yourself as an independent Canadian writer against large media corporations by joining the Canadian Freelance Union.
9. The Society of Professional Journalists: The SPJ provides all kinds of support and resources for journalists, including freelance journalists. Discussion boards, blogs, special events, mentor programs and other networking opportunities abound.
10. Media Bistro: This online community welcomes all kinds of media professionals who want to learn how to improve their craft, sign up for classes, meet other professionals or search for jobs.
11. Breaking Out of Solitary Confinement: Networking Tips for Freelancers: The Washington D.C., chapter of the Society for Technical Communication has put together this podcast that shares valuable networking tips for lonely freelancers.
12. Write From Home: This “freelance writing community for parents” shares tips for finding jobs, finding a work-life balance, and managing a career and parenting schedule while working from home.
13. National Writers Union: All kinds of writers are eligible to become members of the NWU, and payment plans are available. Members enjoy access to a job hotline, various seminars, copyright guides, grievance assistance and more.

Getting Hired

Search for jobs by visiting these sites and connecting with other professionals.

14. Guru.com: This popular site lets freelancers search for projects, post resumes, place bids on interesting projects, and get paid safely and securely.
15. Elance: Elance is “the world’s largest professional services marketplace.” Post your resume and bid on projects to meet new employers.
16. iFreelance: This professional network of freelancers and employers caters to both the job searcher and the headhunter. Create and post a project or resume to find your next gig.
17. Sologig: Find freelance, contract and consulting jobs with the help of this networking website.
18. Freelance Marketplace: UK-based freelancers can check out Freelance Marketplace online to help them search for jobs and connect with new clients, vendors and other freelancers.
19. Freelance India: India-based workers seeking part-time projects can network and post resumes on Freelance India.
20. Contracted Work: Professionals in the Web design, software, writing and graphics industries can find jobs and employers with the help of ContractedNetwork.com.
21. HireGeeks.com: This site encourages companies to “hire geeks” to obtain “freelance support from technical to tutoring.” Freelancers can get together on the forums, catch up on industry news and culture on the blog and set up a personal geek account to safely store funds.
22. Xchangeteam: This site not only connects freelancers with new jobs, it also supports a solid community of freelancers that includes an annual Freelancer of the Year Award, flexible benefits package, expert advice and more.
23. TheWorkNet: TheWorkNet is a “marketplace for skilled contractors, freelancers” and other independent workers to meet and find quality jobs.
24. GoFreelance: This “freelance work exchange” helps freelancers in many industries find work.
25. Freelance Job News: Use the job bank to search specific postings, or visit the “For Writers Only” page to find publications that are currently accepting submissions from freelancers.
26. Freelancers.net: This site helps British freelancers find jobs, but freelancers everywhere can benefit from the active forum community.

General Networking Tools

These articles and websites are designed to help independent professionals link up to find support and improve their businesses.

27. Weekend Writers Cafe: This weekly discussion group sponsored by the Grow Your Writing Business Blog brings freelance writers together for a chance to inspire each other, rant about projects and clients and learn how to improve their businesses.
28. Networking: How to Network Offline and In Person: Stop hiding behind your computer and get out in the real world! This post shares ideas for networking offline.
29. Diva Networking: This blog hosts a networking group one hour each month. Work-at-home professionals can connect, communicate, and even market their projects to amp up their business.
30. Talkfreelance: Join in the discussions on Talkfreelance’s many different posts. Over 12,000 members in the Web design, SEO, programming and hosting industries visit to network and share support.
31. Network Freelance: This British site sponsors a tight freelance, PR and marketing community, provides links and articles about industry news and allows members access to open contracts up for bidding.
32. Networking for Freelance Writers: Check out this resource for help mapping out a networking strategy that will help you meet more people, land more jobs and become a more confident, in-demand writer.
33. How to Successfully Network Online: This article gives lots of tips for freelancers who want to increase their networking presence online.
34. The Fast Track to Freelance Success Includes Networking and a Strong Portfolio: This article from Associated Content explains how and why freelancers can improve their networking skills to augment their careers.
35. LinkedIn: This popular networking tool maintains that “relationships matter.” Meet up with others in your industry to find support or search for new jobs.
36. ecademy: This online business network brings together professionals who want to further their careers by meeting new people all over the world. Join clubs, sponsor networking meetings or events and get marketing tips from other experts online.
37. Meetup: Meetup is the “world’s largest community of local Meetups, clubs and groups.” Join an existing group or search for clubs in your city to organize activities and events for freelancers like you.
38. Ryze: This free networking community assists forward-thinking professionals “make quality contacts…re-connect with friends” and find jobs.
39. Ziggs: Ziggs is a popular site “that organizes the Internet around your people, your work, and your life.” Join for free to manage a profile and control the way others view your business and “online identity,” as one user testifies.
40. hi5: Create a personal Web page on hi5 to advertise your business for free. Freelancers can network freely to share information about jobs, marketing strategies and more.

Who said the life of a freelancer is a lonely one? Now that online communities are cropping up all over the Web, freelancers can network to achieve solidarity, find jobs and market their businesses.

PHP Cheat Sheet

The PHP cheat sheet is designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a developers desk, to make life a bit easier. A description of what is on the cheat sheet follows, or if you are impatient, you can go straight to the full size PHP cheat sheet.

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Good PHP Tutorials.com

PHP tutorials for programmers of all levels.

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Clean URLs with PHP

An article on using .htaccess’ URL rewriting capabilities to create clean, easy to understand links.

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10 Things You Didn’t Know

A list of ten little known features of PHP.

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Fast PHP

An article on coding fast PHP web sites.

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PHP Manual

This site is the official PHP manual and documentation, covering all aspects of the official and current distribution of PHP.

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10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know

10 Tips for people new to PHP programming.

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Top 25 PHP template engines

Website that describes the top 25 PHP template engines.

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XAJAX PHP Class Library

Homepage for the XAjax PHP class library, made for enabling Ajax usage on PHP based sites.

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Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities

An article on avoiding the top ten security vulnerabilities in PHP websites.

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Creating a Secure PHP Login Script

how to create a secure PHP login script that will allow safe authentication. Features remember-me function to prevent session stealing.

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CakePHP

The definitive PHP framework. Ruby on Rails style development with a PHP twist. CakePHP makes development a piece of cake.

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PHP 101

Features tutorials for the beginner using PHP. Extended for PHP 5 and those who have already used PHP 4. Suitable for entry level users.

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A Tutorial on PHP Regular Expressions

A rather technical tutorial on writing regular expressions in PHP.

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MySQL connection managmen

A tutorial on MySQL connection management in PHP

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Code Igniter

Website of Code Igniter, an open source PHP framework designed to make it easier on developers to program powerful web applications.

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Upload Progress Meter

This is an Ajax upload progress meter for PHP.

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PHPBuddy

Learn PHP the easy way. Php resources and tutorials for beginners.

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PHP Freaks

Site has list of links to the material provided by this site – including site navigation and reference material.

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PEAR

Site to download reusable PHB components in the form of packages

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PHP Login System with Admin Features

This article is intended primarily for intermediate to advanced users of PHP, as it is not exactly a tutorial, but a description of the implementation of an advanced Login System. Beginners who are looking to learn about user session and cookies in PHP are advised to read the above mentioned tutorial before reading this article.

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Smarty Template Engine

The official site of the Smarty PHP template engine.

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Backup MySQL with PHP

A nice description of how to backup your database with PHP.

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Google Webservices with PHP

An article on using Google’s webservices with PHP.

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PHP Mailer

Full featured email transfer class for PHP

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PHPBuilder.com

This site offers resources for PHP programmers interested in AJAX.

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RegEx Tester

Ajax tool to test regular expressions against text.

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Secure PHP Form Mailer

This script has a huge list of features: dynamic form generation system, multiple recipients, multiple file attachments, auto reply feature, captcha, numerous security features, and too many others

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FPDF Library

FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with pure PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library. F from FPDF stands for Free: you may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs.

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MagpieRSS: RSS for PHP

RSS Parser in PHP

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PHP Builder

A technical site that provides web designers and afficianadoes with articles, fora, and information.

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Tutorialmix – PHP

Tutorialmix.com / Tutorial website with a list of PHP tutorials.

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Get Vanilla

Vanilla is an open source, standards compliant, multilingual, fully extensible discussion forum.

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My PHP Classes page

This is a repository of PHP scripts for doing many common activity. Broken down into categories for easier browsing.

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PHP/SWF Charts

A tool to create Flash web charts using data drawn from databases via PHP.

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Symfony Project

Symfony is an open-source, PHP webframework. It allows designers do develop PHP applications with ease and speed.

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The PHP Resource Index

Offers 4469 PHP resources in 285 categories…has information on web hosting for several different servers. Includes CGI related resources as a ’special feature’.

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Creating sortable lists with PHP and AJAX

An article on how to create sortable lists using PHP and AJAX.

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Dataface

Framework for PHP / MySQL applications generating update and list pages automatically but with the flexibility to customize through ini files, templates and plug-ins.

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Image manipulation with PHP

Instructions on image manipulation using PHP and GD software with an abstract so you can find what you’re looking for easily

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Last RSS

Parse RSS with PHP

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PHP Object Generator

PHP Site that advertises open source PHP object generation code and its relative advantages.

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PHP Security Consortium

This website is organized by the PHP Consortium – a group of self declared PHP experts, who seek to promote secure programming practices within the PHP community. This website has a bunch of tools and articles to educate readers on this topic.

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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

The official webpage of PHP.

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PHPAudit Licensing

PHPAudit is a full featured PHP Software Distribution Solution for ISVs and PHP Developers. PHPAudit automates the distribution of your code from new orders to product download & licensing.

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PHPDocumentor

The site is all about the phpDocumentor that helps document php code similar to javadocs for Java.

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Qcodo

Qcodo.com is a website for the popular PHP Framework, Qcodo. The frameworks goal is to free developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding.

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WASP for PHP 5

WASP is a web application framework built on PHP 5. Download ver. 1.2 and build great enterprise class applications with more fun and less code.

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Yahoo PHP Developer

PHP developer guide for Yahoo developers.

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ATK PHP Framework

Achievo ATK is an object oriented Web Application Framework, written in PHP.

Even 10 lines of code get you a working application, but everything generated for you, can be 100% customized.

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Prado

This website is a download launch pad for PRADO components to for event-driven framework for rapid Web programming in PHP 5

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Rails-inspired PHP frameworks

An article on PHP frameworks inspired by Rails.

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Simple Test for PHP

Simple unit test framework for PHP code.

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Taking a look at ten different PHP frameworks

Descriptions of ten different PHP frameworks.

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Veckd.com

A tutorial on how to create an upload form in PHP.

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ADOdb Database Abstractio

a database abstraction library for PHP.

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AjaxAC

This site features sample applications, articles, and information about AjaxAC, an open-source framework written in PHP.

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Basic PHP Script Security

Discusses security issues in the use of PHP script programming such as the prevention of SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks, and variable tampering.

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CakePHP

Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC.

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JasLabs PHP

Jaslabs is a software/consulting company that has been in business since 2003. They are located in Troy, MI and specialize in Mysql/PHP. This site is their blog.

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Lorelle on WordPress

A guide for tweak a WordPress theme or designing one, include resources about HTML, CSS and PHP

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Memcached

Allows dynamic pages to be cached as separate elements in memory, and then constructs them on the fly.

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PHP Apache Module

This is a good site and is all about installing a PHP module that is available for the Apache web server that is deliverd by Apple in a regular Mac OSX installation.

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PHP Editor Review

This site offers news related to php progamming and also resources for the programmers.

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PHP in contrast to Perl

Site disusses the differences between the programming languages PHP and Perl.

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PHP MVC Frameworks

Frameworks for implementing the Model View Controller pattern in PHP

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PHP Obfuscator

PHP obfuscator encodes and obfuscates PHP code to make the output difficult to reverse engineer. This allows for encoding of functions, variables and the removal of whitespace.

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PHP on TRAX

Site provides online resources for PHP programmers using the Php On Trax (formerly Php On Rails) web-application and persistance framework.

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PHP Presents

PHP Presents is a directory website fronting multiple slideshow presentations on various PHP-based technologies and also basic PHP usage.

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PHP Security Blunders

The top 7 PHP programming errors that can result in security holes.

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phpLens

This website gives information on how you can optimize PHP – a programming language. This site also has a forum where members can post questions, answers, issues, advice, etc.

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Simple Optimization for PHP and MySQL

Blog to teach coding for creating a database where users can log on and discuss shortcuts and various ways of simplfying the processes.

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Sparkline PHP Graphing

The project website for a PHP library that allows creation of graphs in the style of those seen in stock market trend displays.

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youngcoders

it’s premier community for the world’s next generation programmers.

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PHP MVC framework

How you can use PHP as-is, without additional complex external layers, to apply an MVC approach with clean and simple views and still have all the goodness of fancy Web 2.0 features.

Prototype

Robust library of Flash code.

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Action Script Library

This is the senocular.com Action Script Library welcome page. It describes what is new in the Action Script Library.

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Kirupa

This is a website developed by an MIT student for the purpose of formats used in website development.

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ActionScript.org

A website where they will build flash applications for your environment, such as OSX and PPC. They also include a free demo to introduce you to their work.

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FlashGuru

Flash Tutorials, undocumented features and news.

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FFiles

A web development and Flash resource. There are thousands of quality Flash projects that you can download, rate, comment on, and peruse through. Upload your work for other people to see too.

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Tutorial Outpost

The site features tutorials on Flash

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Actionscript Cheatsheet

A blog related to ActionScript 3.0 developing that includes downloadable cheat sheets.

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ActionScript 2.0 Best…

An informative article providing guidelines on how to consistently write effective ActionScript.

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ActionScript 3.0 Language API

Reference manual for the Flash® Player application programming interface (pdf or HTML)

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The Fuse Kit

This site contains information and downloads for Fuse, a toolkit that allows for a clear and compact syntax and flexibility when animating with code.

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ActionScript3:resources

Links to APIs created by Adobe Labs to help Adobe developers develop Flex 2.0 applications. Utilities, testing, and file sharing aps.

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Flalog

flash, actionscript tips tricks and tutorials

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ActionScript 3 Language

Complete ActionScript 3 Language Reference.

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SE|PY ActionScript Editor

This site features a product description for SE|PY ActionScript Editor including links to find more information.

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ActionScript Dictionary

ActionScript Support Center web page containing the dictionary terms associated with ActionScript.

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Adobe Flash CS3

Help Resource Center for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional.

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Flashkit

flashkit.com is a developer’s resource website. The site focuses on Macromedia Flash programming. There are articles, tutorials, help pages, code snippets, and industry news on this webpage. Flashkit is targeted mainly at programmers and web developers.

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GotoandLearn.com

Interactive Voice-guided tutorial on reading pixel colors and other topics using Object-oriented ActionScript

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Actionscript Classes

A one stop source for Actionscript classes. Learn everything from creating reflections to Javascript and everything in between.

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Code Snippets

A place where people can paste code snippets of ActionScript and MXML, and share with each other under a BSD License. Lots of examples of great snippets!

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Khmer flash tutorials

Provides some good tutorials for intermediate users and some experiments too.

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Movieclip twening prototy

Movieclip twening prototypes – discussion of different protocols

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Open Source Flash

OSFlash allows flash developers to meet, exchange tips, and contribute to open source projects. Any registered member can edit any page.

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Sci|TE Flash

This is a home page for SciTE|Flash, a Scintilla-based ActionScript editor, and includes status updates, a forum and a download link.

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Senocular

Tutorials, source files, and news about various applications such as Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver.

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Tile Based Games

This site provides something of a database where you can read some tutorials about making tile based games with Macromedia Flash.

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ultrashock

site where you can produce high quality music demo’s, video’s and training video’s.

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XML2Object

A great extension for flash to parse xml into a flash object for easier use.

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AsFusion

ActionScript + coldFusion – this site provides tools, examples, and commentry about working with these tools. The yhave a blog section, as well as projects, archives, and examples.

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ASUAL SW address

SWFAddress is a small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications. In other words it enables the Back, Forward and Reload buttons of the browser and creates unique URLs with page titles that can be sent over email or IM.

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flashtica

This attractive, designer-oriented website provides open-source Flash Actionscripts to developers. While still in its early stages of development, this site promises to be a valuable resource for designers and developers of Flash applications.

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Smart Webby : Flash

Flash Tutorials from basic to advanced.

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AFLAX

A JavaScript Library for the Flash Platform.

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FLADE

This website is about the flash dymanics engine, a computer program that simulates 2D physics. This site contains a news section and demos.

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Flash Beastry

A compendium of actionscript-centric Flash movies, by Jim Bumgardner, with accompanying source code.

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Flash/JavaScript Integrat

The page contains information and a download link on the Flash/Javascript Integration Kit. It is part of the Macromedia website

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Franto

Collected links to ActionScript 3.0 examples

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gotoAndPlay

A tutorial for optimizing Actionscript.

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Hakuhin

JavaScript and Flash guides and testing tools

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haXe

haXe is a high-level object-oriented programming language mainly focused on helping programers develop Websites and Web applications.

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Javascript Sound Kit

A code wrapper that allows you to modify the Sound Object function in javascript. It required a flash plugin version 8.

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MediaCreator Japan

Templates for scroll panels, radio buttons, etc.

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Robbert Penner

Website of Robert Penner, author of Programming Flash MX and actionscript hacker – contains info on the book, portfolio and flash experiments

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ActionStep.org

ActionScript 2.0 component framework for Flash

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Adobe Actionscript Overview

Adobe Developer Center article page about Action Script, giving an overview of the 3.0 version.

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amfphp

Website talks about the RPC toolkit amfphp, which allows to test services and generate codes for various clients.

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Andre Michelle Laboratory

This site is a collection of Andre Michelle’s studies that was found by developing projects and researching new technologies.

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AnimationPackage

An ActionScript library compatible to FlashPlayer 6 and above. It helps you create maintainable animations and primitive shapes in small file sizes.

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APE

Graphical tool to construct moving objects with real-world physical constraints

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As2lib

Homepage for the As2lib Framework – an open source ActionScript library for Macromedia Flash MX 2004+ developers.

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as2unit

A testing framework that allows you to create and run repeatable tests on rich internet applications.

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assertTrue blog on AS

assertTrue blog entry on ActionScript projects in Flex Builder 2.0 — A tutorial on how to do this effectively, with examples.

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badgers-in-foil

This is a JavaDoc-a-like for ActionScript 2.0.

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It began it because there don’t seem to be any complete, free (GPL or similar), API documentation tools, as of November 2004.

The scripts are implemented in Ruby, and work under Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. An exe is provided for windows users who don’t want to install Ruby.

Blog CheatSheet

This web page seems to offer a way to organize and detail different display formats involving the the creation of ActionScript Blog CheatSheets.

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Flash Best Practices

Adobe Flash Developer Center article page about Action Script 2.0 best practices.

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Flash Blog

This is a blog about your flash, very interesting and informative.

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flash-creations.com

A site for flash designers with lots of information on various implementations and features.

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Java ActionScript compare

Comparing the syntax of Java 5 and ActionScript 3

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Migration from 2.0 to 3.0

A listing of the differences between Adobe’s ActionScript versions 2.0 and 3.0

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no|wrap.de – Flare

The project homepage for the Flare Flash script decompiler, which will extract all scripts from Adobe Shockwave Flash animations.

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OutsideOfSociety

Flash game programming resources.

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power flasher

A product to help develop flash programs.

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Quasimondo – a flash blog

A flash blog by Mario Klingemann, discussing topics such as “how to make the wiimote work in flash”, “page flip: the final word”, etc..

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Sandy Wiki

Sandy is an intuitive and user-friendly 3D open-source library developed in Actionscript 2.0 for the Flash environment.

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This project is almost stable in 1.1 version. The latest version is available in the download section. You can also look at the changes here.

VisDoc

VisDoc generates HTML documentation, including class relations, from ActionScript 2.0 class files. Download Ver. 1.5.3, for Mac OS X 10.3 or higher.

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XMLRPC

XML-RPC is a standard that was developed for calling remote procedures, usually over http, that can return data to the client.

AJAX Activity Indicator Tutorial
CakeTimer – An Ajax File Uploads Progress Bar
This is a demonstration of an AJAX powered progressbar to monitor file uploads with (Cake)PHP.

HowTo add Ajax in-progress indicators
Ok, so my little del.icio.us app (click link to read about how I added Ajax functionality to a simple Rails app) is pretty cool, but it was missing one big thing. When the user clicks the “Get Results” link she has no idea that the page is communicating with the server.

AJAX Bookmarklets Tutorial
Creating Huge Bookmarklets
A bookmarklet is a special piece of JavaScript code that can be dragged into a user’s link toolbar, and which later can be clicked on to implement cross-site behavior. People have done all sorts of cool stuff with it.

AJAX Chat Tutorials
AJAX Chat Sources Code for Download
After a slow start (following the announcement of the XHTML (ajax) Chat) things got finally busy. I had so many requests that I have decided to offer the complete sources for download.

Lace – Ajax Chat
Lace is a free, lightweight Ajaxian communications engine suitable for a shoutbox, chat room or similar. Version 0.1.3 brings with it several bug fixes, a tiny bit of code reorganization and most importantly, an oft-requested User List.

Most Simple Ajax Chat Ever
Very easy to use AJAX chat demo.

AJAX Client-Server Communication Tutorials
Implementing simple AJAX interaction in your Web Application using XMLHttpRequest object
Everybody till now must have atleast heard about AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML). This example will give you an idea about how you can implement simple AJAX interaction in your web application.

Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax
In this article, you’ll begin with the most fundamental and basic of all Ajax-related objects and programming approaches: The XMLHttpRequest object. This object is really the only common thread across all Ajax applications and — as you might expect — you will want to understand it thoroughly to take your programming to the limits of what’s possible.

Advanced requests and responses in Ajax
n this article, I move beyond the basics in the last article and concentrate on more detail about three key parts of this request object, the HTTP ready state, the HTTP status code and the types of requests that you can make

AJAX
In this tutorial, you’ll be introduced to Ajax, a technology that allows you to send these requests through small JavaScript calls, meaning the user doesn’t have to wait for the page to refresh.

All Request, All The Time
Let’s build a simple application that accepts input from the user, passes it to some PHP on the server that checks it against a database, and returns the result to the browser. It comes in three parts.

AJAX Drag and Drop Tutorial
Drag and Drop Tutorial (with a cool video)
Adding items to a shopping cart in common e-commerce applications isn’t very close to the actual “add to cart” metaphor, since it requires clicking an “add to cart” button, watch a new page (the shopping cart), and then go back to the shop or checkout with buttons. Ajax allows to get closer to the cart metaphor, by enabling drag-and-drop interactions and giving immediate visual feedback, without leaving the shop.

AJAX Dynamically Content Loading Tutorials
Dynamically loaded articles
This is a basic example showing you how to use AJAX. In this script, you have a list of article titles at the right side. When you click on one of them, AJAX will be used to request the content of the article from an external file and show it in the main DIV.

Ajax – Dynamic Content
This small generic script makes it easy for you to load content of external files into HTML elements on your page.

AJAX Forms and Autocomplete Tutorials
Scriptaculous Lists with PHP
The drag-and-drop effects, most notably the sortables, caught my eye because the look great, they are so easy to implement, and they’re just so much nicer than the standard listbox with up/down arrows that we see in most of today’s applications and administration tools.

Alter data with Ajax forms
Displaying rich formatted questions and lists, even paginated, is not enough to make an application live. And the heart of the askeet concept is to allow any registered user to ask a new question, and any user to answer an existing one. Isn’t it time we get to it?

Dynamic Client Lookup
This script uses AJAX to autofill a form. Open the demo and type in 1001 in the “client ID” text field. AJAX will when you have done this call a script on the server and auto fill the rest of the form with client data.

Chained Select Boxes
This script uses Ajax to popuplate a select box with cities based on which country you choose.

Ajax Dynamic List
This script shows you a list of options based on what you type into a text input. Example: Type in “A” and Ajax will get you a list of all contries starting with “A”.

AJAX Framework and Toolkit Tutorials
My-BIC – Tutorials and How To’s
A collection of easy to follow tutorials using the My-Bic Framework including a, hello world – getting your ajax setup, posting comments via AJAX and changing views from a drop down. There are beginner and intermediate tutorials here.

New Echo2 Tutorial Series
Part 1 of a multipart Echo2 tutorial series, entitled “Ajax with Echo2 and Eclipse” is now available from our web site. The related archive with the Echo2 distribution plus the EchopointNG library is available here.

AJAX Design Patterns – Using The Dojo Toolkit
Is this tutorial any different from the others? Well yes and no, it is different in being a tutorial on how to design and build a complete site and not just some fancy little details like how to turn caching in AJAX off or how to create a fancy widget.

Using Dojo and JSON to Build Ajax Applications
In this article, I will show how to build Ajax-enabled applications using Dojo and JSON–two very different but complementary technologies that can significantly enhance the interface and usability of web applications.

• A Gentle Introduction to SQL: An excellent SQL tutorial site.
• SQL.org: Includes links to SQL tutorials and resources for interacting with a SQL database.

Other Sql Learning Sites:

• Technology Tips: My blogging site focused on the tips and how-to’s on technology, software, and building a website.
• PHP Tutorial: This PHP tutorial aims to help beginners learn the essential building blocks of PHP.
• CSS Tutorial: This CSS tutorial aims to help beginners learn the basic concepts in CSS, as well as the common properties used to style a website.
• SQL Tutorial (Spanish): Spanish version of this tutorial.
• SQL Tutorial (Japanese): Japanese version of this tutorial.
• SQL Tutorial (Deutsch): German version of this tutorial.
• SQL Tutorial (French): French version of this tutorial.
• SQL Tutorial (Korean): Korean version of this tutorial.
• SQL Tutorial (Traditional Chinese): Traditional Chinese version of this tutorial.
• SQL Tutorial (Simplified Chinese): Simplified Chinese version of this tutorial.
• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence: Information on business intelligence tools and the steps needed for a successful data warehousing project.
• HTML Codes Tutorial: An HTML tutorial site aimed to teach beginners the building blocks of HTML through examples.
• HTML Color Codes: Lists hex HTML color codes.
• Area Codes: Lists U.S. and Canada telephone area codes.
• On-Campus Interview Tips: Tips for on-campus interviews.
• Greek Alphabets: Lists all Greek alphabets.

Sql Book Recommendation:

• SQL QuickStart
• Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming

Computer Language Tutorial Sites:

• Programming Tutorials: Lists tutorials for various computer languages.
• Programmers Heaven: Provides links, news, and articles on software and hardware.
• JustPhukit!: Provides a searchable directory of tech-articles and tutorials.
• DevLibrary: Programming directory with programming tutorials, files, web sites, etc. for several programming languages.
• Software Development Directory : Directory of software development tools and guides.
• News Directory organized by subject, including Databases.

Useful Sites:

• Books on SQL: List of books on SQL.
• Books for Home Buyers: List of books for those looking to buy a house.
• Free Essential Software: Lists free software essential for those who are budget conscious.
• BMI Calculator: Calculate your body mass index (BMI) from your height and weight.
• Ovulation Calculator: Use this ovulation calculator to generate an ovulation calendar showing when you will ovulate next and your most fertile periods for the next 7 cycles.
• Frequent Flyer Programs: Provides mileage and partner information on major airline frequent flyer programs.
• List of 50 States: Lists basic information for each of the 50 states in the United States.