Links

Net Mechanic will check your Web site for HTML coding problems in an informative and friendly way. If you build a Web site and don't run it through this or a similar service, you're not making your site as compatible and correct as possible.

W3C HTML Validation Service will prove that your Web page is far from clean. The most official, but also the pickiest HTML validator in the Universe.

lcc-win32 by Jacob Navia is "just" a C compiler, not C++. If C is all you need, and you need it for Windows, you'll find lcc much smaller than Delorie's huge compiler.

Interbase is an industrial-strength, serious database that used to sell for serious money and is now Open Source and free. I enjoy working with it. It's available for Windows, Linux and Solaris, and probably more.

mySQL is faster than Interbase, but has a few less features. They are just starting to experiment with transactions. Available for all kinds of operating systems, but I think the Windows version costs a small registration fee.

Merriam-Webster's COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY is a good and handy reference if you're doing anything with text in the English language. Written text with terrible spelling makes a terrible impression on users. A dictionary (and thesaurus) will help you look less illiterate.