Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman Video Lectures at MIT.

LibreOffice

The Document Foundation

"The Document Foundation is proud to be the home of LibreOffice, the next evolution of the world's leading free office suite."

Windows Sysinternals

Windows Sysinternals

- Process Monitor

- Process Explorer

- Autoruns for Windows

SynchronEX

SynchronEX - Advanced File Synchronizer Software

"SynchronEX enables robust multi-directional file tree synchronization and backup over local & network paths in any situation: From laptop synchronization to scheduled periodic backup to incremental website upload."

SyncBack

2BrightSparks: Compare SyncBack Freeware, SyncBackSE, and SyncBackPro

SyncToy

Microsoft Download Center: SyncToy 2.1

My Digital Life: Schedule SyncToy to Run and Automatically and Repetitively

HTTPS Everywhere

Electronic Frontier Foundation: HTTPS Everywhere

"HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites."

Using AOP to Understand Legacy Code

The article quoted below mentions a technique that I had not seen before that may come in handy someday. The author uses an Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tool, in this case AspectJ, to inject code into a legacy application in order to trace its execution. The article does not show you how to do this (and I'm not going to do that either so perhaps the title of this post is a bit of a teaser) but once you know how to use a particular APO tool injecting tracer code should not be difficult. I just wanted to capture the idea here for future reference (which is the purpose of this links-blog).

Pragmatic Programming Techniques: Understand Legacy Code:

"I have built a tool that allows me to instrument those classes that I am interested so that when I start the system, it will print out all the entry points when they execute. Entry point is the lowest method of the stack trace that you are interested. The tool is based on AspectJ which allows me to inject some print statements when certain methods are executed."

Beckhoff Automation Technology

BECKHOFF New Automation Technology

Beckhoff implements open automation systems based on PC Control technology. The product range covers Industrial PCs, I/O and Fieldbus Components, Drive Technology and automation software. Products that can be used as separate components or integrated into a complete and seamless control system are available for all industries.

SQLite Database Browser

SQLite Database Browser

"SQLite Database Browser is a freeware, public domain, open source visual tool used to create, design and edit database files compatible with SQLite"

Mockingbird

Mockingbird

"Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application."

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront

"Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments."

Seven habits of effective text editing

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing

"If you spend a lot of time typing plain text, writing programs or HTML, you can save much of that time by using a good editor and using it effectively. This paper will present guidelines and hints for doing your work more quickly and with fewer mistakes."

SparkleShare

SparkleShare

"SparkleShare is a syncing and collaboration tool...
SparkleShare allows you to host your own service with ease, so that you are always in control of your data...
Not only doesn't SparkleShare cost you anything, you also have access to the full source code of it."

Modernizr

Modernizr

"Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies."

Determine CSS Property Support Using Javascript Feature Testing

NealGrosskopf.com l Determine CSS Property Support Using Javascript Feature Testing

Passionate Vim Plugin Set

Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Current Vim Plugin Set at Develop With Passion.

Blueprint CSS Framework

Blueprint: A CSS Framework

"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing."

Vim Kata Number One

Vim Kata Number One

Arduino

Arduino

"Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments."

RVM on Ubuntu Lucid

BridgeUtopia (Katherine G. Pe): Install RVM, Passenger, Nginx and Rails 3 on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Ubuntu Forums: [SOLVED] Ruby and RVM (Ruby version manager) on Ubuntu from source

Ruby Inside: Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions At Once

intertwingly.net (Sam Ruby): Sam Ruby: RVM for Ubuntu Tip

Stack Overflow: Issue installing RVM for RoR in Ubuntu

Zen Cart

Zen Cart ecommerce solution

"Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software."

Braintree Payment Solutions

Braintree Payment Solutions

"We help online businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing and credit card storage."

Syntastic Plugin for Vim

vim online: Syntastic - Automatic syntax checking

"Syntastic is a syntax checking plugin that runs buffers through external syntax checkers as they are saved and opened. If syntax errors are detected, the user is notified and is happy because they didn't have to compile their code or execute their script to find them."

Create a Local Ubuntu Repository using Apt-Mirror and Apt-Cacher

Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store - Create a Local Ubuntu Repository using Apt-Mirror and Apt-Cacher

"Apt-Cacher differs from apt-mirror in that it does not mirror the entire repository contents, but simply caches (stores) any packages requested by clients within the network. In other words, it works as a middle man between the public repository and the LAN clients, sharing any common downloads internally."

Beautiful Markup

Envy Labs - Beautiful Markup

"One of the best talks at Railsconf was given by John Athayde on Curing Div-itis with Semantic Html, CSS, and Presenters"

Hanselminutes - Developers and Designers

Hanselminutes #222

"Scott sits down with designer Jin Yang to talk about the fundamental differences between developers and designers. Are we a totally different breed? How should designers and developers work together? Should designers code their own sites?"

This was a good discussion. Enjoyed Jin Yang's practical view of being a designer.

Screem HTML/XML Editor

Screem HTML/XML Editor

"In addition to excelling as an HTML editor, SCREEM also lends itself to being a versatile XML editing package, perfect for use as a general purpose structured data editing environment."

How to Lose Time and Money

How to Lose Time and Money

"The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work."

Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco

Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco

"You look forward to the first hit of the game. I tell them to call a play where somebody misses a block. If you don't get hit, you're always waiting for it to happen. It's better to get it out of the way early."

I like this quote from Joe Montana. It seems applicable to more than just football.

(via a Twitter post from @davewiner)

Limelight

Limelight

"Limelight is a rich client GUI framework unlike any other... Unlike many other frameworks, Limelight applications are built using only one language: Ruby."

Pairwise Testing

Pairwise Testing

"Pairwise (a.k.a. all-pairs) testing is an effective test case generation technique that is based on the observation that most faults are caused by interactions of at most two factors. Pairwise-generated test suites cover all combinations of two therefore are much smaller than exhaustive ones yet still very effective in finding defects"

jVi

JJinuxLand: Vim: jVi

"jVi is a plugin for NetBeans that provides Vim-like key bindings. The good news is that it's close enough to be comfortable instead of frustrating."

Vim for TextMate Fans

Alex Young: Vim for TextMate Fans:

"Then I found TextMate for Mac OS. The immediacy of TextMate made it easy to get started with, and it has many excellent features. The problem is, I’m not always using a Mac. But you know who’ll follow me around to every platform I use? Good old vim! So I started thinking, how could I make vim feel more like TextMate?"

Charles Petzold - New Book on Windows Phone 7 Series

Charles Petzold is working on a new book about Windows Phone Seven Series Seven Phone Seven Series Phone.

Free ebook to be published later this year. Preview excerpts available now.

Windows Phone

Microsoft: Windows Phone - Developer Home

CalSky

CalSky.com

CalSky was founded in 1991 by Arnold Barmettler to offer amateur astronomers a new way to plan their observing sessions and to consult scientist and industry regarding questions related to astronomy and celestial mechanics.

Stuff

Just stuff I'm researching. No need to follow these links (unless you really want to).

Parsing Non-Standard Text File Formats with the Script Component

O'Reilly - Safari Books Online: Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition

SQLIS.com

SQLIS - SQL Server Integration Services - SSIS: Community site for Integration Services run by Microsoft SQL Server MVPs Darren Green and Allan Mitchell.

Nifty Generators

GitHub - ryanb's nifty-generators

"A collection of useful Rails generator scripts for scaffolding, layout files, authentication, and more."

Introducing BDD

DanNorth.net - Introducing BDD

"I found the shift from thinking in tests to thinking in behaviour so profound that I started to refer to TDD as BDD, or behaviour- driven development."

Librelist

Librelist.com

"Librelist is a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects... You can make a mailing list by simply sending an email... You also subscribe to a list by simply sending your first message..."

Pro Git

Pro Git - Pro Git Book

"This is the website for the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and published by Apress. Here you can find the full content of the book, a blog with tips and updates about Git and the book and open source projects related to Git or referenced in the book."

NDFD Database Contents

NDFD Database Contents

Head first into javascript (and jQuery)

Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Head first into javascript (and jQuery):

"Once the CSS was done, I was informed that I’d now need to take the tabular reporting table I just created and make it sort on any of the columns, get the data via AJAX calls to a flat file that would store the JSON for the dummy data, create nice drop-down date pickers so date ranges in the report could be chosen by the end user, page the data using a flickr-style pager so only 20 lines would show up on a page, and alternate the row colors in the table (and make sure that doesn’t break when you sort!)."

Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

Microsoft IIS Web Deployment Tool

Web Deployment Tool : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

"The Web Deployment Tool simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites."

django-firebird

Via Firebird News: Blog post, Django meets Firebird, talks about the django-firebird project.

Dissecting Time Machine & Replacing It With rsync

Backup Central - Dissecting Time Machine & Replacing It With rsync

"With rsync (which is built into both MacOS, Linux, & FreeBSD, and can be installed on Windows) and a little shell scripting, you can mimic everything but the GUI and you don't need no stinking sparse files. I even wrote a little script that I'll share with you at the end of this post."

Must try this when I get some more storage.

RSSOwl

Overview | RSSOwl - Powerful RSS / RDF / Atom News Feed Reader

"Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or 'aggregators.' RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It's easy to configure and the best of all: It's platform-independent."