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dzink · 2014-01-02 · Original thread
In the first few years this is the stuff that helped:

- W3Schools + A List Apart + CSSZenGarden (on WebDev)

- Code Complete (on Software Engineering best practices)

- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

- A Bulgarian niche forum and community on flash/web development called FlashBG (Similar to HN in some ways)

- Flash to the Core by Joshua Davis (he was taking regular photographs, breaking them down by color fragments in ActionScript then reassembling them to form abstract designs) http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Core-Joshua-Davis/dp/0735712883

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