Programming Resources

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I love programming, and I'm especially interested in programming languages. Funny thing is that I'm not totally sure why :). Basically I take this to mean that programming is my calling.

This page is pretty much a resource for myself, although I hope other people might find it useful too. Basically, I could have a big bookmark file, or I could catalog everything here for myself and the world. :)

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Table of Contents

• Vendor/System Specific Information
• Developer Sites
• Standards Organizations
• Specifications
• Books
• Miscellaneous
• People

Vendor/System Specific Information

• Microsoft
  • MSDN
  • Microsoft Scripting
    • VBScript
      • Language Reference
    • JScript
      • Language Reference
    • Windows Script Host
      • Windows Script Host Reference
      • Windows Script Host Object Model
      • FileSystemObject
  • MSDN Code Center
  • MSDN Downloads
  • MSDN Library
    • ADO 2.7 Platform SDK
      • ADO Programmer's Guide
      • ADO Programmer's Reference
        • ADO API Reference
          • ADO Object Model
          • ADO Objects
          • ADO Providers
    • Transact-SQL Reference
    • IIS
      • ASP Guide
        • Object Model
        • Quick Reference
      • Programmer's Guide
  • Technet
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer Development Center
  • HTML and DHTML Reference
• Lyris
  • User's Manual
  • Programmer's Guide
  • Support
• VMS
  • Compaq: OpenVMS Documentation
  • Compaq: OpenVMS System Manager's Manual
  • Compaq: OpenVMS FAQ
• Apache
  • Apache Documentation
  • Apache 2.0 Documentation
  • Apache Desktop Reference
  • A Users Guide to URL Rewriting with the Apache Webserver
  • Mod_Rewrite documentation
• Macromedia
  • Designer and Developer Center
  • Flash
    • ActionScript Dictionary
    • Another ActionScript Dictionary - I don't know what the difference is between this and the previous link, but both dictionaries contain some different information, so I've linked both
    • OpenSWF.org - "The Source for Flash File Format Information"
    • A Concise Guide to the SWF File Format
    • Macromedia Flash file format
    • Ming - "an SWF output library and PHP module"
• FileMaker Pro
  • Downloads
  • Reference

Programming sites

• Cetus Links
• Developer.com
• TechNetCast
• Dr. Dobb's Journal
• DevGuru.com
• Devx
• O'Reilly Network
• IBM's developerWorks

Standards Organizations

• W3C
• ECMA
• ANSI
• ISO
• IETF

Specifications

• Netscape's original cookie spec

Books

Titles

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - SICP, also known as the "Purple book" because it's purple :)
• Um, SICP again, this time from ArsDigita.
• An Introduction to Database Systems - AW homepage for the book
• Object Oriented Software Construction
• Programming Perl - The definitive book on Perl. Also known as the "Camel book" because of the camel on the cover.
• Programming Language Pragmatics - awesome book. The book's homepage at Morgan Kaufmann
• Programming Ruby
• The Art of Computer Programming, by Donald Knuth. I hope I'm smart enough to understand most of what's in those books someday.
• The Python Essential Reference - publisher's page for the book
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Learning Perl
• Design Patterns
• Data Munging with Perl
• I can't recommend a book on PHP, HTML, or CSS. For HTML or CSS, read the specs. There's plenty of information there. If you're a programmer you should be able to pick it up from there no problem. Same with PHP. The manual is so good that you really don't need a book.
• Code Complete - Steve McConnell's home page - publisher's page for the book
• The C Programming Language. The original and best, by K&R. - publisher's page for the book
• REBOL, the Official Guide. Now that I think about it, however, I really didn't like the book too much, but it is "the" book for REBOL right now, so it's here.
• SQL For Smarties, Joe Celko
• All the Harry Potter Books.
• I'm honestly not sure what books I can recommend for Java. I have a few, but I'm really not happy with any of them. Java is really pretty easy, but it has a HUGE library. Maybe one of the references is worthwhile, like Java in a Nutshell, which I have, but I usually just wind up checking the online docs.
• Pascal!!! I should ask my high school if they have any of their old AP Pascal books! They switched to C++ for their AP course, and I wonder what they did with their Pascal books. I'd love to have one!
• 7/31/01 - Not sure what else for now. I have to check my shelves (and drawers!)
• The C++ Programming Language.
• Programming Pearls
• Introduction to the Theory of Computation - publisher's page for the book

(Technical books) Publishers

• O'Reilly
• Addison Wesley
• Wrox
• MIT Press
• New Riders
• Manning
• Microsoft Press
• Prentice Hall

Miscellaneous

Technologies/Methodologies

• Extreme Programming
  • ExtremeProgramming.org
  • XProgramming.com
  • ObjectMentor
  • RoleModel Software's XP Portal
  • Unit Testing - Unit testing is one of the fundamental tenets of XP.
    • JUnit
    • PyUnit
• Aspect Oriented Programming - AOP is the result of a research project from Xerox PARC. It deals with "cross-cutting concerns" that in traditional designs wind up being scattered throughout a class hierarchy. AOP tries to centralize these concerns.
  • AspectJ - an extension to Java that provides AOP facilities.
  • Xerox PARC's software design area.
  • TransWarp - AOP in Python.
• Design by Contract - a feature of the Eiffel programming language. A programming methodology that allows you to specify the preconditions and postconditions for every method as well as a class. It makes the "contract" between a class and the user of the class explicit, as well as allows you to catch many more errors; the application will throw an exception if one of its contracts is violated.
• UML - Unified Modelling Language
  • Rational's Unified Modelling Language Resource Center.
  • OMG's UML Resource Page

Misc data formats

• YAML
• Minimal XML
• Practical XML Subset
• NXML and Chunks
• Pyx
• SOX
• DL (or here)
• Boulder
• Open Node Syntax or ONX ("onyx")
• SLiP
• A great list of XML alternatives

Other

• http://www.refactoring.com/
• http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
• Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
• Specialized Systems' Helpdesk
• The Pragmatic Programmers
• Code Charts
  • http://www.asciitable.com
  • http://www.asciichart.com
  • Microsoft's List of ANSI Character Codes
• FastCGI
• The Pi3 Component Architecture - I'm going to try out the server and see if it's any good. If it isn't, then I'll probably remove this link :)
• The Velocity Template Engine - Looks like a pretty interesting Java based template engine for web sites. Usually I'm unimpressed with these types of systems, but this one seems to be fairly decent. I just wonder how ready it is for production environments. Based on WebMacro, which I have yet to look at. Oh, and here's more similar stuff from Disney :), including Tea.
• Enhydra, Java application server.
• Dictionary of Programming Languages
• Tom's Hardware Guide
• filespecs.com - From the site: "This website is dedicated to helping developers, gamers, and techno-enthusiasts find and use binary file formats, definitions, and specifications. We encourage all feedback and comments and of course welcome all file format submissions. This site will grow and become -the- source for file formats on the net. Enjoy!"
• Wotsit's Format - "The Programmer's File Format Collection"
• ResearchIndex
• BloodshedSoftware - makers of Dev-C++
• Reliable Software
• The Internet Virtual Machine - "An Open Alternative to Java and C-Sharp..." - from the website: "Internet Virtual Machine is targeted for the 99% of the computer applications world-wide which are written in 32 bit C/C++, as well as new C/C++ applications. Internet Virtual Machine uses the popular GCC compiler base to compile a binary that can be run on any platform supporting Internet Virtual Machine."
• Yindo - from the website: "Yindo is a platform independent programming language with a virtual machine and interfaces for graphics, events, files and networking. Applications written in Yindo can either run as stand-alone applications or as "applets" embedded in a web page." It's built off of Lua.
• The Programming Wisdom Center. He advocates something called Table Oriented Programming (TOP), that I've never heard of anywhere else. It seems to be a style of programming rather than another paradigm like OO or functional programming is. I have to read more.
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• The Jargon File
• WDDX
• cURL - "a tool for transferring files with URL syntax"
• CodeCharge - "Code Generation made easy"
• Literate Programming
• ZooLib

People

• Donald Knuth - Author of "The Art of Computer Programming"
• Larry Wall - Creator of Perl
• Guido van Rossum - Creator of Python
• John Ousterhout - Creator of Tcl
• Yukihiro Matsumoto - Creator of Ruby
• Rasmus Lerdof - Creator of PHP
• Guy Steele - Creator of Scheme
• Brian Kernighan, Dennis Richie - Creators of C
• Bjarn Stroustrup - Creator of C++
• BruceEckel.com
• Paul Graham - Author of a few Lisp books. Good articles on his site.
• Andrei Zmievski - one of the core PHP developers

Page last edited: December 24, 2005 (utc)