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Gratianus dicit quod ordinatrum facile est.
Omnia responsa sunt in rete.
(Source: www.canonlaw.info)
Note: This page is woefully inadequate. I wrote it many years ago, figuring I'd improve it over time, but that never happened. Sorry. I leave it up because it's better than nothing, and I use it time to time.
Introduction
(What does this page try to do, and how?)
Information
(How can I be a well-informed software engineer?)
Software
(Where do I get good software?)
Hardware
(Where do I get good hardware?)
Services
Software Development
(How do I develop good software?)
This page is an attempt to collect the best software engineering links I can find. These links must be:
1.1) Helpful. Collecting any link is easy. Collecting the really helpful links is hard.
1.2) Organized. If you can't find it quickly, then you don't really have it.
1.3) Up-to-date. Eliminate broken links. Add newer, better links as soon as they become available.
1.4) Commented. A sentence or so to explain what the link is, and when it can be useful for you.
1.5) Minimal. All the essentials, but only the essentials.
1.6) Sorted by quality. As far as possible, links inside one category should be sorted in decreasing order of quality.
1.7) Available. Keep these links on a mirrored website.
What other sites do what I try to do on this page?
Links
to useful software engineering web sites
(Timothy C. Lethbridge; Robert Laganière)
Software
Engineering: Related Online Links and Web Resources
(Ivan Marsic)
Construx
(I used to admire Steve McConnell a lot, but by
the look of his website, he's headed for the "Dark Side". His website is
contaminated by hype, you must register to access links to non-proprietary
information, etc.)
"What should I skim daily/weekly/monthly to stay on top of technical developments?"
The Register
(General computer-related news.)
Slashdot
(General news, more or less related to computers
and technology. Quality is uneven, since almost anybody can post an article on
almost anything.)
ZDNet
(General technical news and
product reviews. Ads slow down the
site. Are product evaluations unbiased?)
Tom's Hardware Guide
Ars Technica
"Where can I buy my computer books?"
Amazon
(I currently buy most of my computer books there.)
Tech Books For Free
(Many Computer Science books free and on-line.)
"What good computer-related magazines could/should I read?"
Dr. Dobb's
(No longer published, but good archive of programming articles.)
Embedded
Systems Programming
(Good monthly magazine on embedded systems, also available online for free.)
MSDN
(Microsoft-specific programming technologies. Owned by Microsoft, so expect bias.)
IEEE Software
(Somewhat academic, high-level content. Must be a member of IEEE and pay
subscription to read online.)
"Who publishes good computer books?"
Most of
my favorite computer books
were published by Addison-Wesley. They have now dissappeared.
Pearson
Higher Education
seems like a very poor substitute.
Wiley
O'Reilley
(Their books are a kind of software "minor-league". They are useful to learn about
more "low-level", "transitory" topics.)
"To become a better programmer, what association(s) should I become a member of?"
IEEE Computer Society
ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery)
"Where are some good places to get software?"
SourceForge.net
(Open Source programs and source code.)
Download.com by CNET
(Huge shareware download site, mostly for Windows.)
Repository of free software under Linux:
Free Code.
www.pure-mac.com
(I know very little about the Macintosh, but I was told
this was a reasonable download site for Macs)
Microsoft Windows
(I currently have Windows 7. I'm trying not to migrate to 8 or 10.)
Loads
of Linux Links
Linux on laptops
(A repository of "intallation blogs" of Linux onto various brands and models
of laptops.)
The Linux Documentation Project
(with among others
a guide for beginners)
Distrowatch.com
(A site that tries to keep track of news concerning Linux distributions).
"What programs can I use for accomplishing such and such a task?"
Office applications:
Microsoft Office;
Libre Office.
Web browser:
Mozilla Firefox.
MS-IE;
E-mail:
Mozilla Thunderbird.
MS-Outlook;
Anti-virus:
I know almost nothing of anti-virus software. Based on a few
Wikipedia
articles
and
one review
of unknown reliability, I currently (2015-August) use
Trend
Micro Antivirus,
which I don't like. I've owned and ripped out AVG (slowed down my laptop) and Norton
(horribly slow, complicated, and their web site stole my money while preventing me
from renewing my subscription!), and many more I would rather forget. I hate
anti-virus software, especially since it's almost useless. But if someday at work
I gave somebody a computer virus, and I did not have an up-to-date antivirus on
my laptop, I would be in trouble.
Software firewall:
I currently use the one from Microsoft Windows (Zone Labs Zone Alarm had become a
virus almost by itself).
FTP:
Filezilla
"What should I run my software on?"
Lenovo
Dell
Toshiba
Fujitsu
HP
www.tigerdirect.ca
(Hardware firewalls, etc.)
Canon
(Printers)
HP
(Printers)
"Who can connect me to the Internet?"
Bell Canada
(Canada)
Mediom
(Quebec City)
Oricom
(Quebec City)
Videotron
(Quebec)
Earthlink
(USA)
"Where should I put my web site?"
There is a glut of web hosting providers. Here are the ones I currently use,
chosen somewhat randomly.
JustHost.com
Addr.com
iana
(Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. To know who owns a domain name, or to
find out if you need to renew your own domain name, etc.)
Rebel.ca
(My current domain name registrar)
Jobillico
(Job search website)
www.mail2web.com
(To delete large files that are sent to you by e-mail)
JavaScript Kit
(To learn HTML, CSS, PHP, etc.)
W3Schools
Online Tutorials
(To learn HTML, CSS, PHP, etc.)
HTML Validator
(but I use
A Real Validator
by Liam Quinn, because it let's me check my whole site, off-line, in one
operation)
Hyperlink Checker
(to find broken hyperlinks)
FEED Validator
(for Atom and RSS and KML)
CSS
Validator
Stack Overflow
(Question and Answer site for programmers.)
Bjarne
Stroustrup's homepage
(The inventor of C++)
Python.org
(The main website for Python.)
UML Resource Page (Probably the only software modeling notation you need.)
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