Moin Moin,

here are some links.

Wiki book about implementing algorithms:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_Implementation

Rails httparty gem for easy usage of the net::http classes

https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty

a summary of some interestin IT blogs

http://drtomcrick.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/a-set-of-top-computer-science-blogs/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email

Skorks blog from Alan Skorkin about software development related stuff

http://www.skorks.com/