Links

Getting started

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
Configuration settings list
MediaWiki FAQ
MediaWiki release mailing list

music

ambisonics - general website on things ambisonic-related
csound - MIT-originated soundwave rendering program

tech

people

the old new thing - raymond chen, win32 technical nuggets
alistair cockburn - agile methodologist
coding horror - .net and human factors
martin fowler - refactoring
paul graham - lisp guru, good on startups

joanna rothman - managing and hiring
joel on software - joel spolsky, business and design
bjarne stroustrup - c++ designer - exceptions ("appendix e") herb sutter - c++ essayist, iso chair

gerald m weinberg - psychology of computer programming

good free libraries, apps and languages

apache - web server
apache tomcat - java servlets/server pages

ace - c++ networking, threading, has tao orb as well
boost - c++ general (regex, smart ptrs, serialization, much more ...)
bugzilla - bug tracking
cppunit - unit testing

cygwin - linux-like environment for windows
ethereal - open-source network protocol analyzer
mediawiki - the software behind wikipedia
pthreads-win32 - posix threads for win32

python - the python programming language
openssh - secure shell
openssl - secure sockets (ssl, tls)
xerces - xml (c/c++, java, perl)

zlib - c++ compression