HTML, CSS, JavaScript Tutorials

Some nice simple on-line free tutorials for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Great for beginners.
Thanks HTML DOG.


Another good looking on-line free teaching site for these topics is W3Schools.

Startup Engineering

A very promising free on-line course.

Startup Engineering from Stanford is offered by coursera. 10 weeks, starts June 17 2013.

This technical course builds on an early Stanford course that was more theory.


Startup Engineering requires one to have (free) accounts with:

• Amazon Web services (AWS)
• Github
• Heroku

Using Bitbucket with Pycharm

Pycharm (the python IDE) has built in support for Github. That's nice as I want to use git for source code management. Codeschool by the way has a nice free git intro course in their electives area. Enough to get one going with git.

The free Github plan however is restrictive compared to Bitbucket's free plan.

Github: no private repos, limited to just yourself.
Bitbucket: unlimited private repos, up to 5 team members

So how does one configure Pycharm to use Bitbucket?

1. Create a free bitbucket account
2. Launch Pycharm and go to Settings->Plugins
3. Click on Browse Repositories
4. Enter Bitbucket into the search field
5. Highlight the Bitbucket pluging and click on the "dowload & install" icon
6. Close all windows and re-start Pycharm (required after a plug-in installation)
7. Relauch Pycharm
8. Return to settings and select the new Bitbucket option in the IDE section
9. Enter Bitbucket userID and password.
10. Click on Add SSH Key button and navigate to the SSH key you used for Bitbucket

MongoDB Training

Great FREE MongoDB training @ https://education.10gen.com

You may need to wait until the specific course you want is scheduled but it is worth the wait.
Quality training for the right price.

A free into to MongoDB is available in the following ebook:
http://openmymind.net/2011/3/28/The-Little-MongoDB-Book/

Read about PyMongo if you want to use MongoDB with Python.