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This page is a compilation of useful web sites for software developers based on Alex Measday's research. If you find a reference you think should be included, please fill out our contact form to let us know!

Architecture

	CPU Info Center
	The Dead Supercomputer Society
	Dr. Dobb's Microprocessor Center
	Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present
	Silicon Zoo - Michael Davidson's collection of "chip graffiti".
	Simputer (or Encore Software or PicoPeta Simputers)

Artificial Intelligence

Agents

	List of Robots
	Transportable Agents (at Dartmouth College)
	The MUD Resource Collection

CLIPS: A Tool for Building Expert Systems

Electric Communities

Evolutionary Computation Repository (EnCoRe)

GNU/Linux AI/Alife HOWTO - an embarrassment of riches!

The Temple of Alife

MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Careers

	Ask the Headhunter - EE Times' informative q&a . (Salary Surveys)
	Bad Managers - "True-Life Horror Stories of Software Development Cowboys".
	Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists
	the cluetrain manifesto: the end of business as usual
	EngineeringSuccess.com
	GoingWare, Inc. - must reading by Michael David Crawford for programmers old and young.
	IEEE-USA Today's Engineer - "Building Careers: Thinking Outside the Cubicle".
	PlanetPinkSlip.com - cards and gifts for the down and out.
	Rebecca Smith's eRésumés & Resources - "The Ultimate Online eResume Guide for Winners."

Companies

	The Ganssle Group - headed by Jack Ganssle of Embedded System Programming fame.
	General Magic
	Green Hills Software - Multi.
	Human Factor
	LynuxWorks - LynxOS and embedded Linux.
	NonStop Computing - formerly Tandem, then Compaq, and now HP!
	Object Mentor, Inc. - Robert Martin's company. Nice collection of articles.
	PanelSoft - user interfaces for embedded systems.
	The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC - the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer.
	Real-Time Innovations, Inc. - Network Data Delivery Service (NDDS).
	Schemers Inc. - Scheme products.
	Shiva
	Wind River Systems - VxWorks.

Education

	Anthony Aaby - excellent computer science materials
	Joseph Bergin - an excellent collection of on-line articles and papers on C++, Java, etc.o
	CS 330: Concepts of Programming Languages - lecture notes, as well as good links.
	CS PhD Comprehensive Exams - at the University of New Mexico
	The Oberlin CS DRAGN Project - excellent, on-line tutorials

Games

	EmulaMaster - emulators, utilities, and ROMs for a variety of game consoles.
	Emulation HQ
	GBXemu - "Game Boy Roms, GBA Roms, Flash Advance Cards".
	One Minute Left - all things gaming, including classic game console emulators and SNES ROMs.
	Rom-Mania - emulators and ROMs for a variety of game consoles.
	Romster.com - "Napster for ROMS".
	Video Game Music Archive - MIDI files.
	VisualBoyAdvance - GBA software development IDE and emulator.

Handhelds - Hardware and Software

Palm OS

Developer Home

Databases

	JFile Pro - a full-featured commercial database program for the Palm.
	Pilot-DB - a free database program for the Palm.
	PalmOS Flat-File Database Tools project has conversion programs

Desktops

J-Pilot - Linux "Desktop Organizer Software for the Palm Pilot".

Development

	Guikachu - a GNOME-based resource editor for PalmOS.
	Metrowerks - CodeWarrior IDE for Windows and Macintosh.
	MobileSoft Labs - mobileStudio C++ IDE.
	LispMe - Scheme for the Palm.
	Palm OS Programmer's FAQ
	PalmPilot Software Development - Alternatives to C
	PDA Toolbox Developers Community - and their on-line magazine, The Nuts & Bolts.
	PilRC - Pilot Resource Compiler.
	PRC-Tools - GCC-based development tools. (Also available to run in the Cygwin environment under Windows.)
	Stanford Digital Library PalmPilot Infrastructure - and CORBA for the PalmPilot.

E-Text

Libraries

	Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - converts text to various formats as needed.
	Pilot E-Text WebRing - "E-Texts for the 3Com PalmPilot!"
	MemoWare - "The PDA Document Repository".
	Project Gutenberg - text files only.
	University of Virginia's E-Book Library - includes Palm Doc format.

HandStory Suite - powerful Palm document/image browser, format converter, and clip editor.

Palm Digital Media - formerly PeanutPress.

Qvadis Express Reader Pro

TealDoc - text reader and Content Library.

Weasel Reader - free reader uses compressed text files.

News, Views, and Information

	Brighthand - "nothing but Pocket PC and Palm Powered handhelds".
	Handheld Computing
	MaximumPDA - "Your Personal Data Assistance Source".
	Palm Tipsheet - "Practical Tips for Palm Handheld Users".
	PalmPower Magazine - "tips and techniques exclusively for Palm computer users"; see the Enterprise Edition for business-oriented (but interesting!) articles.
	PalmStation - "News, Views and Reviews to Feed the Need".
	PalmZone.net - news and information.
	PDABuzz - "Top PDA & Handheld PC News".

Software

Applications

	Afterburner ][ - an overclocking utility.
	Secure It - a "secure Personal Information Manager".
	X-Master - the successor to HackMaster

Open-Source/Free Software

	FreewarePalm - "Download freeware to your Palm handheld."
	freshmeat.net - open-source software/free software (OSS/FS) for PalmOS.
	PalmOS Open Source Portal

Blue Nomad, LLC - WordSmith and other Palm applications.

Cutting Edge Software - Quickoffice tool suite.

DataViz - Documents To Go and other Palm applications.

Handango - "World's Leading Publisher of Handheld Software" for Palm and Pocket PCs.

Handmark Software - "tools & toys for a mobile generation".

Iambic - iambic Office tool suite and other Palm applications.

PalmPilotArchives - lots of applications.

Qvadis - Express Reader Pro and other Palm applications.

TealPoint Software - Palm applications and content. (newsletters)

Vendors

	MobilePlanet - "The Mobile Computing Experts". (online shopping)
	Palm - m105.
	PalmGear.com - "The One Stop Source for your Palm Connected Organizer". (online shopping)
	Softfield Technologies - (Agenda) VR3 Linux PDA.

Wristwatches

IBM's Wearable Computing Platforms Group - and their Linux Wristwatch.

Seiko's Ruputer - and related pages:

	Ruputer: The Wrist Computer - screenshots, applications, and links.
	PCOnHand: The OnHandPC Watch - news, information, and software.

The Gadgeteer - high-tech gadgets galore!

GetHighTech - "The PDA Parts, Accessory & Service Specialist".

International Palm Users Group (InterPUG)

PalmIt

PalmVNC - run your desktop from your Palm - really!

History

ACM Timeline of Computing - includes a full timeline as well as timelines filtered for particular categories of computing.

ClassicGaming - has a lot of information on old video game equipment. hosts the Museum of Home Video Games and a number of specialty web sites devoted to hardware and software development for various systems:

	Commodore VIC-20
	Portable Atari 2600s: the VCSp and the 2600 CE.

Commodore Computers

	The Commodore 8-bit WWW Server
	Cameron Kaiser's Commodore Knowledge Base and The Secret Weapons of Commodore!
	MJK's C-64 Page
	The venerable Toronto PET User's Group.
	http://www.6502.org/ - "a resource for people interested in developing hardware or writing software for the 6502 microprocessor".

Colossal Cave Adventure page - formerly known as The XYZZY Page.

Computer History - a budding collection of papers and audio clips!

Computer History Simulation Project - software simulations of the world's greatest computers!

In Pursuit of Simplicity: The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra - has many of his writings, including his Ph.D. thesis and the famous EWD-numbered manuscripts. Unfortunately, the documents I looked at are simply page images in PDF format; readable, yes, but searchable text or HTML files might be preferable.

Infocom - paying "homage to the company that created some of the best computer games ever, period."

Intel Museum

Multics - duly venerated and documented.

Perlisisms - Epigrams in Programming - the famous collection by Alan Perlis.

The Retrocomputing Museum - has implementations of a number of old programming languages.

UNIVAC Memories - "In 1971, John Walker figured out how to convert a multi-million dollar room-sized UNIVAC 1108 mainframe into a Morse code practice oscillator with a stand-alone, bootable operating system dedicated to that dubious application." How can you stay away?

The Unix Heritage Society

VAXarchive - has historical information and links on the hardware and on the various operating systems (VMS and various UNIX dialects).

Humor

	Cult of the Flaky Hardware
	Dilbert
	Promotion, Habilitation, Mumifikation?
	Segfault.org
	"The Seven Habits of Highly Defective Developers" - by Jack Ganssle, the prolific columnist from Embedded System Programming. Number 6, "Neglect Standards", presents the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and the Capability Immaturity Model (CIMM).

Internet

	Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia - an excellent source of information.
	The Living Internet - another comprehensive resource.
	whatis?com - kind of an information technology (IT) encyclopedia and more.

Issues

Electronic Voting

Electronic Voting

Intellectual Property

	Break Your Noncompete Agreement
	Cerebral Trespass.com

People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR) - founded by Lauren Weinstein and Peter Neumann.

The PRIVACY Forum - sponsored by the ACM and several companies.

Linux

Linux Distributions - a comprehensive list of the well-known and the less well-known distributions.

Linux Documentation Project (LDP) - HOWTOs, FAQs, man(1) pages, and book-length guides.

Desktop Environments

	GNOME
	KDE
	OEone - and its HomeBase operating environment.
	Window Managers for X - Matt Chapman's extensive guide to X Window-based "window managers and desktop environments".

Portals

	Linux and Main - "Linux for the rest of us".
	LinuxDevices.Com - "... the embedded Linux portal ^SM".
	LinuxInsider.Com - "Real-Time Linux News from Around the World".
	Linux Online!
	Linux Programming - programming articles.
	NewsForge - "Open Source News".

Projects

	ELKS (Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) - for 8-/16-bit CPUs!
	GNU GRUB - GRand Unified Bootloader.
	The LessTif Home Page
	Linux Development Projects
	LNX-BBC - Linux Bootable Business Card.
	SashXB for Linux - "an open source application environment that exposes native functionality to JavaScript".
	SEUL - Simple End User Linux

Publications

	"The Cathedral and the Bazaar" - on open-source software.
	Embedded Linux Journal - excellent on-line articles on embedded computing with Linux.
	LinuxFocus - an excellent on-line magazine - available in Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish translations ... with other languages on the way.
	Linux Format
	Linux Gazette
	Linux Journal
	Linux Magazine
	LinuxPlanet - a "Guide to the Linux Operating System".
	LinuxWorld

Software

Development

	Eclipse - "a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular". (See the C/C++ IDE plugins currently under development.)
	Glade GTK+ User Interface Builder

Computing Web Sites