Computers

• Top Links
• Education
• Shareware
• Programming
• Java Programming
• Freeware
• • Web
  • Programming and Testing
  • Database
  • Office
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Top Links The links on this page that I most often use. [Top]

• SourceForge - Open Source software repo. Where I maintain opencsv.
• JetBrains - Java IDE that I love so much that I actually paid for a copy so I can use at work.
• DbVisualizer - Freeware program that allows you to query and edit databases in a graphical format.

Education These are websites I have found that provide really useful tutorials." . [Top]

• A Learning guide to Design Patterns - Provides a good lesson plan for a design pattern study group. While the site focuses on the Gang of Four (GOF) book I find any design pattern book suitable.

Shareware (That was good enough for me to actually pay for) [Top]

• Winzip - Compression utility
• Edit Plus - Good IDE
• astraware - For palm games.

Programming [Top]

• The Art Of Unix Programming - An online open source book on UNIX programming.
• regex - online library of regex expressions.

Java Programming [Top]

• Java World - View JavaWorld articles online
• Struts Tutorial - Jakarta Struts tutorial.

Freeware [Top]

• Web
• Programming
• Source control
• Database
• Office
• Music and Sound
• Applications
• Security

• JAlbum - An excellent web photo album generator. This is what I use to maintain our photo gallery.
• Opera - The Fastest Browser on Earth.
• Mozilla - Not as fast as Opera but does not have the sales banner.
• FireFox - Mozilla's lean rewrite.
• HTML Kit - An excellent HTML editor/validator. This is what I use to maintain my webpages when I use Windows. Unfortunatly it does not have a Linux port.
• Amaya - W3C's WYSIWYG editor/browser for the web.

• Eclipse - Java IDE that integrates JUnit, ant, CVS, Clearcase, Maven and Subversion through a variety of plugins.
• Junit - Java Framework to build unit test.
• Fitnesse - business driven test that can be entered directly into a wiki or via a spreadsheet.
• Fitnesse frameworks - Framework for Integrated Test.

• Subversion - A more advanced version control system.
• Subversion Red-bean book - An excellent source of online documentation about subversion.

• MySQL - Popular Freeware database.
• DbVisualizer - Freeware program that allows you to query and edit databases in a graphical format.

• LibreOffice - Fork of OpenOffice that has more support.
• OpenOffice - Open Source alternative to MS Office.

• EAC - Exact Audio Copy. Provides near perfect copy of CDs.
• FLAC - A good lossless compression of sound files.
• foobar2000 - Converts sound files from one format to another.

• Webshots - Picks random wallpapers and screen savers from a group of given image files (pretty cool).
• Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation program
• GnuPG - Encrypt and send digital signatures.
• Cygwin - UNIX commands and utilities for Windows.
• FileZilla - FTP client.

• Spybot Search and Destroy - Clears out cookies and spyware. Basically its the same as ad-aware but it seems to check more things.
• Zone Labs - I use there free version of ZoneAlarm firewall on my system.
• AVG - Freeware virus scanner.
• CCleaner - Cleans the registry.

Hardware [Top]

• AMD - Makers of my CPU.
• Leadtek - Makers of my GeForce2 GTS card.
• Creative - If its digital sound its here.
• Epson - Excellent printers.

Apache projects [Top]

• Apache.org - Apache Software foundation.
• Jakarta - Maintainer of Apache's Java projects.
• Ant - Replaces Make for Java. Builds large projects quickly. Very powerful XML scripting language.
• Cactus - Testing framework for server side Java. Extends JUnit.
• Junit - Java Framework to build unit test. Though not a Apache project I added it here because it works with Cactus.

Web [Top]

• W3C - World Wide Web Consortium.
• Find an ISP - pretty much says it all

PDA [Top]

• PalmGear - Loads of software and accessories for Palm Pilots.

Geek Links [Top]

• The Ascii table - The ascii table online - How geeky can you get :)

Security [Top]

• GRC.com - Test the security of your system.
• DSL Reports - A good second opinion but you need to create an account and the test is slow (and their response email tells you to try grc.com).

Services [Top]

• Blogger - Free weblog from google.
• FotKi - Photo sharing and printing.

Utilities[Top]

• The Ultimate Boot CD - A bootable CD of useful utilities.

Misc [Top]

• CNET Download site - Tons of freeware and shareware.
• Digital Blasphemy - Computer generated art. This site is a great source for wallpapers and screensavers for webshots.

Remember - Computers are your friend :)

This page was last modified 10/03/2019