Programming

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Home Pages of Interesting People

• Donald Knuth's home page.
• Eric Raymond's home page.
• A web site called Joel on Software with entertaining articles on programming (among other things). I have enjoyed these articles so far: Back to Basics (C strings and malloc); The Law of Leaky Abstractions (why we need to learn what's going on "under the hood").
• Articles by Paul Graham (including "Hackers and Painters").

MIT's on-line Resources

• Main link
• Course: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Text: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman.

Open Source Stuff

• OpenSource.org including several versions of "The case for Open Source", and the "Halloween documents" (memos from Microsoft which are anti-open-source in their flavour).
• An article on Open Source Software, including discussion of business models base on OSS.
• The Assayer. From the site: "The Assayer is site for user-contributed book reviews, with a special focus on reviewing free books." There should be links to some articles about "free" books too, like this one and this one.
• An article on The Future of Intellectual Property Rights with a nice simple description at the start about what "Free Software" and "Open Source" mean.
• An article on why OSS projects generally have a usability problem (i.e., Crappy User Interfaces) and what could be done to make them better at it.
• Slashdot thread on QandA with GPL lawyer.
• A National Academies Press report on "Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences", with a section on Sharing Data and Software.
• A Wired interview with Linus. Qoute: "That's one of the great advantages of the open source model, Cox adds: constant feedback and peer review."

Good Practice

• The SWEBOK (Software Engineering Body of Knowledge) project.
• A site on Extreme Programming.
• GNU Coding Standards.
• An interview with Martin Fowler (guru on Extreme Programming, Refactoring, UML, ...)
• The book "Design Patterns" by Gamma, Helm, Johnsons, and Vlissides (Addison-Wesley).
• A site on aspect-oriented programming and a site that provides an aspect-oriented extension for Java (AspectJ).
• An article on what will succeed OOP as the next big programming paradigm.

Tools

• The on-line version of Version Control with Subversion
• dmalloc a debugging tool for catching dynamic memory allocation bugs (in C code).

Quality Assurance

• Link to a slashdot thread on automated GUI testers.
• A Software Quality Assurance FAQ.
• The FDA General Principles of Software Validation
• The Debian QA page; mostly just about organising bug fixing. Nothing about testing.
• A set of links to Software Quality Assurance and Testing .
• The Quality Assurance Institute Software Testing Information.
• Leland Wilkinson's Statistical Package Test Problems , with a couple of references at the end to two papers by Gunther Sawitzki.
• A very large set of gnuplot demos
• Some articles on the definition of "Quality": Dr oland Petrasch; Robert L. Glass.
• A discussion of regression testing.
• Phillipe Gorsjean's benchmark tests of stats software (speed comparisons).
• An article on "Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)?" including a section on reliability measures of commercial versus OS software. (Came from this slashdot thread on "How Would You Argue for Open Source?")
• An article on Quality assurance under the open source development model.