SomerBits

Contents...

• Enumerated Powers - Chuck Somerville's conservative reading site
• C/C+ links, books, tutorials, info, etc
• C/C++ FAQs
• Sample code from C++ books
• Object-oriented methodologies
• Java
• HTML
• General computing links
• Favorite (free!) tools
• :CueCat bar code scanner software
• Other stuff

• Several free downloadable books on Programming in C, and C ++ from computer-books.us.
• Several free on line courses on C/C++ coding practices for security and reliability.
• Many good resources on Programming in C from Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linköping University, Sweden.
• Many free tutorials on C, C++, MFC, and other topics. from DevCentral.
• Douglas C. Schmidt's articles from C++ Report magazine.
• The C++ Virtual Library from the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany.

C/C++ FAQs...

• USENET FAQ - comp.lang.c
• C++ FAQ Lite From Marshall Cline in the UK

Sample code from C++ books...

• Eckel - Thinking in C++ (ZIP file - download to your system and unzip.)
• Coplien - Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms
• Hansen - C++ Answers book
• Smith - Object Oriented Software in C++

Object-oriented methodologies...

• Cetus Links - over 18,000 Links on Objects & Components
• UML Documentation
• OOA/OOD Textbook...
  • Lea, Douglas (dl@g.oswego.edu). Object-Oriented System Development. The complete book online.

Java...

• Gamelan's Java Software Directory
• Java Applet Rating Service Home of the "Top x% Applet" lists. Many links to Java resources.
• Anfy's Java (and other goodies) pages (from Italy).

HTML...

• W3 Schools - Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free. May be the largest web developers site on the 'net.
• Primers and more from HTML Goodies
• HTML code tutorial
• Home page of The World Wide Web Consortium
• Webmaster Reference Library
• The Web Developer's Virtual Library
• Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific Web includes many good links to HTML references and tips.
• A free counter for hits to your web page.    

General computing links...

• Many free downloadable books on Programming in several languages
• Developer.com - resources for programmers. A part of the larger Earthweb collection of IT resources.
• Netcraft - Lots of news, information, and resources about many aspects of the Internet. PC Magazine judged it one of the Top-101 web sites of 2003 (in the Computing Experts section).
• Virtual Library - Software Engineering
• Discussion of Function Points and Feature Points.
• SunWorld Online Magazine is gone.
• Coriolis Group Visual Developer Magazine is gone.    : : sigh : :
• C/C++ Users Journal (Now a Dr. Dobb's "channel")
  
• Dr. Dobb's Journal
• Microsoft Systems Journal is gone, but 1986-2000 back issues are online.
• Software Development Magazine (Now merged with Dr. Dobb's)
  
• Windows Developer Magazine (Now a Dr. Dobb's "channel")
  
• Unix Review Magazine ceased publication in 2007.
• SysAdmin Magazine ceased publication in 2007.
• AIXtra Magazine is gone.

Favorite (free!) tools...

• Notepad++ multi-file editor with many programmer-related features (including color syntax highlighting for many file types, show whitespace/control characters, find/replace including control characters and regular expressions, auto indent/reformat for some file types, macro feature, much more) by Don Ho and the Notepad++ team (open source). Has become my favorite text editor (and is the favorite of many programmers I know).
• NoteTab Light multi-file editor with killer macro tools and multi-file search-and-replace (great for HTML) by Eric G.V. Fookes, Switzerland.
• EditPad Lite PostcardWare, fast, multi-file editor by Jan Goyvaerts, Belgium.
• Programmer's File Editor powerful, multi-file, rules-customizable-by-language, VERY LARGE FILE (up to about 1.5 gigabyte) text editor by Alan Phillips, Lancaster University, England. Development is discontinued, but it's still available here.
• Large Text File Viewer 5.2 from SwiftGear.com fast VERY LARGE FILE viewer (not an editor). Now my large text file viewer of choice. I have used it to view files as large as 13 gigabytes (!) with no signs of running out of gas. Links are half-way down the left side of his home page.
   
  Swiftgear's site seems to be down (2011/10/31) so here's the installer for the latest version (5.2).

:CueCat bar code scanner software...

• A 32-bit Windows program I wrote to use the :CueCat scanner (still available from some electronic surplus dealers and on ebay) as a general-purpose bar code scanner and symbology-identifying tool. It requires an un-modified scanner and will not work with one which has been modified (hardware hacked) to display data un-encrypted. The hardware modifications remove the scanner's ability to return a code indicating which bar code symbology was scanned, which is an essential part of the functionality of this program. I believe it to be the most comprehensive of such programs with regard to usefulness as a general-purpose bar code scanner. It identifies (and in many cases formats for readability) 26 different bar code symbologies and variations, including all UPC/EAN/JAN supplemental bar codes. This is Version 1.1.22 (2009/06/10) and is placed in the Public Domain. See the readme.txt file for detailed information and a complete list of the bar code symbologies decoded. Get the program and VB6 project source files.

Other stuff...

• Famous Smoke Shop - my favorite Internet cigar store.
• Cigarworld.com
• Eastman Kodak Company, Graphic Communications Group, and the Dayton Ohio division, Inkjet Printing Systems (formerly Kodak Versamark, formerly Scitex Digital Printing), producers of Kodak Versamark printing systems (my former employer).
• Runtime Error 200 problem with programs written in Borland Pascal running on faster Pentium-class machines.

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