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Software
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These links group sites that provide
insight into the future of computing.
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Slashdot is a community with a bent
towards Open Source, with wide ranging discussion on technology.
There is a religious tendency towards Linux. |
Slashdot |
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Techdirt is a great place to find out
about the trends in the computing industry. |
Techdirt |
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Advogato is a Free Software advocate
site. The articles and comments posted are usually thoughtful
and insightful. |
Advogato |
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Kuro5hin - technology and culture
from the trenches. Balanced discussion. |
Kuro5hin |
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And of course there is Tangled Time,
our creation. It welcomes all software traditions in discussions
about software, the net and business. Please come and
join us. |
Tangled
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User Interface
Design |
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Useful links for software developers. |
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Bruce Tognazzini is one of the world's
top user interface experts. If, like us, you believe that
the quality of a program is measured by its user-interface
as well as its code-quality then you'll be interested
in his thoughts. |
Bruce
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Usable Information Technology - another
top user interface site - Jakob Nielsen's site. Well worth
visiting regularly. |
Usable
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The Interface Hall of Fame and Interface
Hall of Shame - excellent indicators of how to do it,
and how not. |
Interface
Hall of Fame
Interface
Hall of Shame |
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Games Development |
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Game development is a really interesting
branch of software development. In contrast to many other
branches of the software development family - there's
quite a lot of sharing of knowledge. |
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Check out Gamasutra - an excellent
games development site. Their project reviews are valuable
in that they show up patterns that happen again and again
in all branches of software development. |
Gamasutra |
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Flipcode sometimes have interesting
game development tutorials. Worth occasional visits. |
Flipcode |
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Magazines |
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There is a host of tree-based and
e-based magazines that are relevant to software development. |
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Dr Dobb's Journal - excellent magazine
for developers. Worth the money for the dead tree version.
We learn something with every issue. |
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Dobb's Journal |
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Linux Magazine tells you about what
is happening in this dynamic area. |
Linux
Magazine |
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Software Development magazine have
a good site. There is almost always something worth reading. |
Software
Development |
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The C/C++ Users Journal sometimes
has interesting articles. |
C/C++
Users Journal |
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Communities |
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You'd think that there would be more
places for developers to congregate on the Internet. Perhaps
you know some that you think are worth listing - let us
know. |
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Developer.com is worth a look if you
have some spare time. Too centralised for our tastes.
More a directory of resources than a community. Try this
as a last resort if you are looking for particular code
samples or components. |
Developer.com |
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We haven't found many vibrant C++
communities (apart from Usenet - which is a little overcrowded)
, but the JCCL page has some good pointers. And the Visual
C++ Developers Journal seems to be developing in that
direction. And of course there is MSDN. |
JCCL
Visual
C++ Developers Journal
MSDN
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Wiki is an interesting idea in co-operative
information development. The original WikiWikiWeb is about
Wiki's and also contains the Portland Pattern Repository.
Perhaps this should be in trends, rather than here. |
WikiWikiWeb
Portland
Pattern Repository |
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Pretty good
people |
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If you are a developer, Construx Software
are worth aspiring to. Steve McConnell has written some
pretty good books. He's the Chief Software Engineer. They
have some worthwhile stuff to download - checklists, templates,
and estimation software. |
Construx
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R&T Software are excellent Delphi
developers. They worked on KeyPoint. |
R&T
Software |
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Governor Technology are great with
C++, and lots of other Microsoft technologies. We've worked
together on a number of projects. We rate them highly. |
Governor
Technology |
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If you are looking for top-notch graphic
design - Carolyn King - Rosella. |
Rosella |
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Web Development |
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If your development has a strong web
component - the Web Developers Virtual Library is one
of the best resources around. |
Web
Developers Virtual Library |
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For Windows |
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If you don't know about Delphi, it's
worth finding out a little. It's not C++, it's not Java,
it's an Object Pascal based development system for Windows
(and soon for Linux too). In our experience the most productive
development environment at the moment, and part of the
reason has to do with the huge huge number of components
that are available, with source code, for re-use. The
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Delphi |
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The Delphi Superpage is one of the
premier collections of components - about 6,000 last time
we looked. |
Delphi
SuperPage |
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Helpmaster is the best collection
of Windows Helpfile resources that we have found. Links
to excellent tutorials and tools can be found here. |
Helpmaster |
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PHP is one of the best web application
development languages. The central resource for it has
an amazing interactive manual that forms the basis of
a community of developers. |
PHP |
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Security |
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Systems Internals have some useful
tools for figuring out what is happening deep inside Windows.
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Systems
Internals |
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Security on the net is becoming a
more and more important issue. If you are connected regularly
to the net, there is a fair chance that your machine has
been scanned. Unix Insider have a terrific overview of
the tools that could be used against you. |
Unix
Insider |
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Entrepreneurial
and Business |
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The dead-tree version of Red Herring
is even better than the web version - - pretty much the
place to start. |
Red
Herring |
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Followed quickly by The Standard |
The
Standard |
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And Tornado-Insider for info about
what's happening in Europe. |
Tornado-Insider |
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Cambridge Network is a useful gateway
to business in Cambridge, UK. |
Cambridge
Network |
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CHASE is a group of small hi-tech
companies based in and around Cambridge. |
CHASE |
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Enterprise Link is a useful resource
for small and growing businesses in Cambridge. |
Enterprise
Link |
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Mind expanding
stuff for technologists |
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Arts and Letters Daily- a brilliant
site with provoking articles on philosophy, aesthetics,
literature, ideas, criticism, trends, breakthroughs, culture,
art, music, history, disputes, gossip. Pretty wide ranging. |
Arts
and Letters Daily |
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Cambridge University online is a pretty
good starting point for links into the academic and local
scenes. (Cambridge UK that is.) |
Cambridge
University online |
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