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Quotes

"However the last 10%, getting it to work, can easily take 10 times as long as figuring out how to do it..." Geoff Howland, Lupine Games http://www.lupinegames.com/articles/prac_ai_2.html Accessed Dec 28, 2001

Links

These are more links that I have accumulated. I am in the process of sorting and consolidating all of these links.

Old Quick Links

The Old New Thing Planet Lisp slashdot LarkWare A Fresh Cup ZDNET gapingvoid How to Save the World Escape From Cubicle Nation Business Pundit Mind Hacks The Daily WTF Guy Kawasaki's Blog Presentation Zen Creating Passionate Users Rixstep Indexed Hiring Technical People Managing Product Development Joel on Software programming musings TechNews CS Seminars Stevey's Blog Rants Paul Graham Educational Psychology Andy Kessler AppleMatters DoomToons

Misc

• Alfred Publishing: Publishes a good set of books for music students.
• Musica Viva: Free sheet music and more
• Real World Technologies - article about new processors: Deals with new Alpha and Intel processors
• Real World Technologies: Many articles about processors.
• The Weather Network Has ski conditions for all the resorts in Canada
• The Globe and Mail A very good Canadian newspaper
• Unix Shell Scripts A biref intro to schell scripts.
• S.O.S. Mathematics A set of pages that deals with mathematical concepts in a simple fashion.
• Linux System Failure Post-Mortem An article that discusses what to do if a system failure occurs. A part of many various articles on Linux on this web site.
• Steve Loates Keyboard Centre
• KAOS Music Centre
• DIana's Electronics Info Page
• Black Hats Prefer Linux Contains some info about what security programs to use
• GameBoy Advanced Resource management
• GameSpot Hardware: How to Build a PC: Discusses the details of building a PC. Gamespot is also a good site.
• Links to Things (www.fi.uib.no)
• Links
Resources for ECE 291
• Trish's PS-2 & OS-2 Help Page
• vgacon
• Welcome to Color Matter - Table of Contents
• WE-MAN!'s Electro Stuff
• PC KITS-links page
• Warren Miller Entertainment Canada
• Study Cell Learn Chinese Online Some links to help you learn chinese
• Beethoven.com Online Classical Radio Station
• WinAmp Radio A list of many online radio stations
• JCC's SQL Std. Page: Links about the SQL database standard
• Some MIDIs from A.Volkov's collection: A bunch of midi's.
• Linux programs at Tucows: Tucows is a web site with many programs to download. This is for linux programs.
• TreeLight Systems: Has some interesting stories about how unhealthy the majority of processed food is.
• Microsoft Releases Shared Source CLI and C# Implementation: CLI is Common Language Interface. Studying these may be useful for research.
• Chillling Effects Clearinghouse: Deals with online rights.
• Pekao Canada: A travel and trading company with a Polish background.
• No Starch Press: Publisher of computer books.
• MIC.net Michael Milirud's web page
• The Electronics, Design, Technology, & News Network Connects to good magazines and web pages on electronics.
• 3D Wallpapers Lots of interesting graphics here to use as wallpapers.

Applications

• Secure iXplorer: Windows front end for PSCP, a secure way to transfer files between systems.
• Dia a drawing program: This program can be used to create UML diagrams and other diagrams.
• dia Win32 Installer: This is the site where I actually downloaded dia from.
• OmniPad: A multi purpose text editor, and other programs as well
• Graphviz: open source graph drawing software - draws graphs, really nice !!!
• wxWindows: A cross platform C++ GUI library.
• GNU Midnight Commander File Manager: Like Norton Commander but for Unix/Linux.
• TTSSH: An SSH Extension to Teraterm
• Adobe Printer Drivers - Printer Drivers for Windows I was finally able to print a proper postscript file in Windows by using the set of drivers provided here. Just use the generic PostScript printer and everything should work well.
• WinAmp A good media player for windows
• UltimateZip
• Ghostscript and GSView Allows you to readPS and PDF files in Windows (look under GSview)
• ICQ Software You can download the newest ICQ software or go to ICQ anywhere to use a web based icq program.
• O&O Software GmbHThey have a really good (and free for non-commercial use) defragmantation utility for Windows
• SourceForge Open Source development web site and repository
• JODE Java Optimize and Decompile Environment (JODE)
• Open Source Development Network A portal site with headlines from various other sites
• Jmangle A Java Class Mangler, I actually got this one to work, and it does a good job, except for renaming classes.
• Table of Contents Boost Graph Library
• LaTeX Can be used to format documents properly

• Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Programming

• Thomas Kistler: His PhD work involved continuous dynamic optimization, including traces, data layout, and slim binaries.
• Adrian Vetta: An MIT student in graph theory.
• Springer LINK !!! Many of the books that Springer has published have online PDF versions on this website. Access to the full articles requires you to be running from a computer at an institution that subscribes to Springer LINK. In a bunch of different areas including computer science and mathematics.
• Minimum Spanning Tree
• Moret and Shapiro's Algorithms P to NP
• developerWorks A resource for developers working on java, internet, or linux software
• IBM Journals Has information on two journals published by IBM, Journal of R&D and the Systems Journal
• 1.4.3 Minimum Spanning Tree
• Frank McSherry's Homepage: This site contains some publications on Spectral Analysis.
• Vincent Wong's home page: This person has some articles on adaptive network algorithms.
• Graphs Theory - Algorithms - Complexity
• Recursive Make Considered Harmful: Explains how to properly create make files.
• Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)
• Conference Program for FDO 1999 Feedback directed Optimization
• Software Development SiteDeals with programming and has many articles
• Java and JavaScript Programmaing Has a lot of tutorials on java and other stuff under the heading DicK Baldwin's Java Programming Tutorials
• DevX Lots of articles about programming. Especially enterprise and internet programming.
• Introduction to Alpha Contains info about the Alpha processor
• The Calibrator Calculates the size and speed of the memory hierarchy of a system.
• The Error Correcting Codes Page Lots of info about ECC.
• How to Have a Bad Research Career A really good presentation regarding research.
• CDL hosted databases Lots of citations for articles can be found here
• Journal of Graph Theory: A web site with articles from the journal.

Game/Graphics Programming

• VTK Home Page: The visualization toolkit, is a high level graphics API on top of OpenGL.
• Simple DirectMedia Layer: A cross-platform multimedia library over OpenGL
• Steam Powered: Online broadband game delivery system.
• How do I make games? A very good article on how to approach game creation.
• Lupine GamesI don't know how good the games are, but the articles and links are top notch.
• Chris Crawford's Library Some really interesting articles about programming games.
• GameTutorials Game programming tutorials, news, and previews
• CFXweb Demo and game programming site.
• MSDN Online Voices - Driving DirectX The Simplifcation of DirectX
• GameTutorials Game programming tutorials, news, and previews
• Basic Graphics Programming With The Xlib Library A tutorial about programming with Xlib
• Magic Software: Has source code available to the graphics libraries it developed. They also have nice and short license agreements, how nice.!!!
• NeHe Productions (OpenGL) Lots of good tutorials on openGl. Many links too.
• NeHe DirectX Style Like NeHe, except for directX. Less tutorials than NeHe too.
• Drunken Hyena Has tutorials that are the same as NeHe but for directX instead.
• GameSpy.com Contains information about video games, including some stuff about development.
• Thomas Homepage Contains several Java applets.
• The Mandomartis Online Courses - Basic Course in Special Effects and Game Programming in Java An introduction to java game programming.
• flipCode Game Development News & Resources
• GLdomain Contains very good demo programs with source code for OpenGL.
• OpenGL The official web page of OpenGL.
• WSU Virtual Worlds Contains a set of programs that use OpenGL
• 3D Total - The cg artists home page Information about 3D computer graphics.
• CodeColony Contains a bunch of OpenGL tutorials
• Nate Robins - OpenGL More OpenGL tutorials
• GameDev.net - Game Creation on the Cheap Lists tools that are inexepnsive to use for programming.

Friends

• GQinfinity - DigiCam Gallery More online pictures on one of my friend's web site.
• GQinfinity - Digital Gallery A ton more pictures, but you need a login to get access.
• The World of IndyComp 0T1 Adriana(a.k.a. IndyComp0T1)'s Web Page.
• Indy Comp 0T1 Pictures
• Yahoo! Photos - Peggy Wu
• Peggy Wu's Home Page (no longer works, it seems)
• Solace: Lee Chang's web page

Toronto & University of Toronto

• CNS Web Page: Computer Operations at U of T
• Other Computer Stores: This computer store's web page actually lists many of the computer stores in Toronto.
• Cule Local 3902: U of T TA union site.
• U of T Information Commons This is where U of T students can license software for their school work.
• University of Toronto Email web access Access to your utoronto.ca email account, assuming you're a U of T student.
• U of T Athletic Centre Online information about the athletic centre and its hours of operations.
• TLRC1
• Dytech Computers Very good computer prices
• ECE Seminars: A list of seminars within ECE.
• Upcoming Events: A list of seminars within CS.
• OTA Computing Solutions Gateway Expensive, but they list laptop prices
• Vistek Canada Has camera equipment
• Toronto Cinema List
• Tribute.ca Get movie showing times
• U of T Engineering Registar's Office Find out about engineering courses here

Programming Contests

• TopCoder: A programming contest site that will pay the contest winners money.
ProperTreatmentIcfpProgrammingContest
• ACM Freiburg Programming Contest 1999 and 2000
• Contest Standings
• I'll Be Done In (By) Five

C Programming

• C Language Impelemantations
• LEARN C-C++ TODAY
• Programming in C
• comp.lang.c FAQ

Go

• David Fotland's Many Faces of Go
• Go An Addictive Game
• John Bate's GO Page
• Ken's Go (Baduk, WeiQi) Page
• goproblems.com: Has go problems to go through. Really nice !!!
• Sensei's Library Front Page
• MindZine - Go - Learn Index
• GNU Go
• MKGal
• Installation Jago
• The Go Teaching Ladder

• Fortran

• Fortran Tutorial A tutorial on fortran
• Example Fortran program to measure elapsed time There's also some interesting stuff on these web pages.

Security

• The complete social engineering FAQ: Discusses social engineering
• Social Engineering Article: Another web site that deals with social engineering.
• Social Engineering Hackers Article: Discusses common techinques that are used.
• Social Engineering Fundamentals, Part I: Hacker Tactics: An article that deals with security and social engineering.
• Symantec Internet Security: Checks your system for open ports and the like.
• Nethods of Hacking: Social Engineering: More of the same.

Portable Device OS's

• Psion Revo - Charging/Battery Information: Discusses how to properly charge the batteries for this device (the device is discontinued).
• Symbian: Symbian has a set of OS's for portable devices incluing Psion and Nokia products.
• Palm OS: Another OS for portable devices.

Software Engineering

• Refactoring: Talks about refactoring
• A taste of "Bitter Java": Like design patterns, but it deals with what not to do.
• Bitter Java antipatterns communite: A web site that discusses anti patterns in some detail.
• JUnit: Testing Resources for Extreme Programming
• Online available UML publications: A list of links about UML.
• UML: This is a resource page from one of the main players in the software engineering market.

Climbing

• GORP - Climbing: A page with a lot of information about climbing, including technique.
• Climbing Archive Contents: The climbing archive is not maintaned any more, but there is still useful infor there.
• The Climbing Guide: Some simple information about rock climbing.
• Rock climbing technique - the lizard: A little bit on climbing technqiue, but something to keep in mind.
• Archive of Rock Climbing Moves and Tips: Sweet
• Training For Climbing: Nice page with some good tips from an author of climbing books.
• RockClimbing.com: A site about rock climging
• Climbing Magazine: A nice site.

This web page is maintained by Borys Bradel. Last update:  April 26, 2007
Address: http://www.bradel/links.html