Bookmarks
rent cars
Travel on, now:
Rentcars.com is another metasearch system that raises similar results to those search engines that were included in my original tests. Like the others, it manages to dig out some good deals.
auto europe
Travel on, now:
In Europe, Auto Europe generally matched all other sources, including self-described “discounters,” for offering the lowest rates. Think of it as the AutoRentals.com or Rentalcars.com of Europe.
sixt
Travel on, now:
For European cities, the Sixt booking site is proof that higher-end companies occasionally offer specials better any other source. At the time of my search, the German company was running a “special” found to be the cheapest option in some cases, but didn’t specify the rental company.
Auto rental
Travel on, now:
Overall, AutoRentals.com is an excellent place to start a search. It’s a metasearch system that displays a matrix of prices for up to 25 model options available through more than two dozen different sources, including a mix of other metasearch car rental booking sites, online travel agencies, and rental company home pages.
Houston Coding Boot Camp
Learning for Live:
The Houston branch of the UT Austin bootcamp. The description differs in some details from the Austin description, mentioning C# and ASP.NET rather than PHP for the back-end technology.
Digital Crafts
Learning for Live:
A sixteen-week immersive program in full stack development. The course covers JavaScript, Python, Node.js, and the MERN stack. Mornings are devoted to classes and afternoons to lab work. Students have to complete sixty hours of preparatory assignments. They can take a rotating elective in the evening.
Asciinema - record your terminals
theMage:
Asciinema is a tool to record your (text) terminal and share it as a video - and you can still copy from the video. It is an amazing tool to record tech demos or tutorials.
Honeycomb - the observability system
theMage:
Honyecomb is an amazing observability tool, that is developed to allow developers to log all the information they can possible need to be able to better debug their distributed systems later.
Charity Majors' blog
theMage:
Blog of Charity Majors, the CEO and co-founder of honeycomb.
Starter League
Learning for Live:
A thirteen-week immersive course in application development. The primary technology is Ruby on Rails. Four weeks of remote preparation are required. Starter League operates in partnership with Fullstack Academy.
DeVry Bootcamp
Learning for Live:
A part-time, 24-week program in web development. The material covers C++, HTML5, JavaScript, JSON, MySQL, and JavaScript frameworks. The course puts strong emphasis on building a personal brand and a network. No previous coding experience is required.
Designation
Learning for Live:
A twelve-week course on UX/UI, preceded by twelve weeks of prep work. Seventy hours a week are scheduled. There are separate paths for UX and UI. Four weeks are for a class project, followed by six weeks on client projects.
Data Science Dojo
Learning for Live:
Five-day immersive bootcamp in "data science for everyone." Students will learn about the R statistical programming language, regression algorithms, machine learning, and large-scale databases. Students will work on an Internet of Things project. Tutorials cover basics in advance of the bootcamp.