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Hesk Help Desk is a free PHP help desk software. I had earlier reviewed this on IT Discover (Hesk Help Desk). I thought its worth mentioning it again since HESK has come up with a new version which was released recently and it improves user experience with the help desk even more than the previous version.

LoadRunner Interview Questions
1) Which protocols are supported by Loadrunner ?
2) Which components have you used in Loadrunner ?
3) What is load runner Agent.
4) How many VUsers are required for load testing ?

And many more with answers....

Fujaba was aimed to support software forward and reverse engineering. That is why Fujaba is an acronym for "From UML to Java and back again". Fujaba's main features are: Powerful, easy to use, yet formal, visual, object-oriented software system specification language (UML class diagrams and specialised activity diagrams, so called Story Diagrams based on graph transformations) Java code generation based on the formal specification of a systems' structure and behaviour which results in an executable system prototype.

Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness. It also happens to be one of the Top 25 blogs and Top 50 websites in the world, with about 250,000 readers. Zen Habits features one or two powerful articles a week on: simplicity, health & fitness, motivation and inspiration, frugality, family life, happiness, goals, getting great things done, and living in the moment. See the huge archive of posts below.

HTMLforums.com is very fast developing and a very good community which  offers free HTML and web development help to webmasters, web developers and small business owners

There are some true gems out there on the internet. Some of the most insightful and thought-provoking websites I've found include:

Educational:

TED - Ideas worth spreading.

Khan Academy - a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. A mission to help you learn what you want, when you want.

Ohloh is a free, public directory of Free and Open Source Software and the contributors who create and maintain it. Ohloh Code is a publicly available, free code search site that indexes most of the projects in Ohloh.

Free HTML XHTML CSS JavaScript DHTML XML DOM XSL XSLT RSS AJAX ASP ADO PHP SQL tutorials, references, examples for web building. Ajax is Asynchronus JavaScript and XML. AJAX allows web pages to be updated asynchronously by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes. This means that it is possible to update parts of a web page, without reloading the whole page.

Arun Kumar _ Java 5_J2EE Interviews Questions and Answers

The purpose of this document is to help in preparation for exam CX-310-055 (Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0).

This document should not be used as the only study material for SCJP Tiger (Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0) Test. It covers mostly Java 5.0-specific objectives. I tried to make this document as much accurate as possible, but if you find any error, please let me know.

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A good collection of Free Microsoft .NET books, covering topics like C#, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Webservices and .NET Development.

Offers original articles and links to news on Linux and Open Source security.

Lot of good tutorials covering powerpoint animation, graphics etc. Gives different uses of powerpoint like even creating flash.

How to use the Parallax effect for animated, decision-making scenarios in your e-learning courses

More elearning powerpoint tuturials

• Create interactive animated scenarios.
• Create a click and zoom effect to view images.

Inspiration for how you might use them in web design. You’ll notice that some of the designs below make heavy use of textures, while others take a more subtle approach. Each method works well and compliments the content while adding lots of visual interest.

There are tons of articles available on this topic, However I have tried to make this concise and give you only the information you need. The below 4 poitns will give you tips to create a Google friendly website after recent Panda and Penguin updates.

Over 300 photoshop and GIMP tutorials have been aggregated on this site. you can find photoshop tutorials and GIMP tutorials on various topics. The idea came out of the continually browsing of different Photoshop tutorial websites. These website are usually full of unnecessary side information, which makes browsing on them very slow. Vunky Search is a fast and visual way of browsing through Photoshop tutorials. It does not contain any actual tutorials, but marly functions as a jump-board towards different Photoshop tutorial websites.

Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. It's not only the DBA's (database administrators) that have to worry about these performance issues. We as programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Here are some MySQL optimization techniques for programmers.

Streamline your next home improvement project by using Dragonfly's intuitive design tools to rapidly create and furnish your floor plan, experimenting in real time with your ideas in 2D and 3D before making it real!

Good tutorials explaining basic concepts of SQL and MySQL including workbench

Database Fundamentals

• Tutorial 1 - What is a Database? Why is it needed?
• Tutorial 2 - Introduction to MySQL and MySQL Workbench

Database Design

• Tutorial 3 - Introduction to Database Design
• Tutorial 4 - Normalization
• Tutorial 5 - ER Modeling

SQL Basics

• Tutorial 6 - Creating a Database
• Tutorial 7 - SELECT Statement
• Tutorial 8 - WHERE Clause
• Tutorial 9 - Insert Into
• Tutorial 10 - Delete & Update