"An application programming interface, or API, is the set of symbols that are exported and available to the users of a library to write their applications. The design of the APIs is arguably the most critical part of designing the library, because it affects the design of the applications built on top of them."

A talk by Joshua Bloch, Google Principal Software Engineer.

"This is the site for the book "Learn Python The Hard Way". The book is a very beginner book for people who want to learn to code. If you can already code then the book will probably drive you insane. It's intended for people who have no coding chops to build up their skills before starting a more detailed book."

"Think Stats is an introduction to Probability and Statistics for Python programmers. If you have basic skills in Python, you can use them to learn concepts in probability and statistics. This new book emphasizes simple techniques you can use to explore real data sets and answer interesting statistical questions."

"A Conceptual Framework for Liberation"

"Docsplit is a command-line utility and Ruby library for splitting apart documents into their component parts: searchable UTF-8 plain text via OCR if necessary, page images or thumbnails in any format, PDFs, single pages, and document metadata (title, author, number of pages...)"

Pandoc is a tool for converting from one markup format to another. It can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, PDF, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, groff man pages, and S5 HTML slide shows.

Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.

Moleskine converter, takes calendar/contacts and converts them into a PDF suitable for printing and putting in your moleskine.

In my pursuit to understand Git, it’s been helpful for me to understand it from the bottom up – rather than look at it only in terms of its high-level commands. And since Git is so beautifully simple when viewed this way, I thought others might be interested to read what I’ve found, and perhaps avoid the pain I went through finding it.

Easy PDF generation from PHP, possibly useful for MM reports.