David Parrott / links

links

• engineering

  • turbo jet

    • http://www.nickhaddock.co.uk/jetkart.htm

      Nick Haddocks excellent jet kart.

    • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DIYGasTurbines/

      Discussion list about the design and construction of home built gas turbine engines.

    • http://www.rcdon.com/html/experimental_projects.html

      Don Giandomenico has a number of home built engine projects detailed on his site, including a home built turboshaft and vehicle for it to run on. The quantity and quality of his work is frankly astounding. He also has excellent writeups of all his projects, with videos. Highly recommended.

  • miniature jet

    • http://www.traplet.com/

      Publisher of two of the most well known books on miniature gas turbine engines, Gas Turbine Engines for Model Aircraft by Kurt Schreckling, and Model Jet Engines by Thomas Kamps. They provide an online shop where both can be purchased.

• web

  • http://www.w3.org/

  • CSS

    • http://www.csszengarden.com/

      An excellent example of what can be achieved with sensible markup and CSS.

    • http://www.css-discuss.org/

      The CSS-Discuss list is a high volume list for the discussion of CSS theory and implementation. A massive amount of information comes through making it quite involved to keep up with everything, but if you are at all interested in the use of CSS I would highly recommend it.

  • xhtml

    • http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

      An interesting page on why sending xhtml as text/html should be considered harmful. I don't necessarily agree with all it says, but it's worth a read.

  • firefox

    • http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

      The main firefox product page.

    • extensions

      • http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/

        Chris Pederick's web developer toolbar. If you use firefox and do any sort of web development, get this, I guarantee you will find some of its features useful along the way.

      • http://ieview.mozdev.org/

        A useful extension to have, enables you to open a link or the current page in IE from the context menu.

      • http://sage.mozdev.org/

        Sage is a lightweight news aggregator with support for both RSS and Atom feeds.

      • http://olab.free.fr/OLab/#ext-stylesheetchooser-plus

        Stylesheet chooser plus, restores the stylesheet selection icon and persists selected stylesheets.