Links

Warning: This link collection is mostly old stuff and some links are probably expired.

Long ago I kept building a link collection to have in my homepage. Of course it sometimes helped myself, but it was also there just because it was a typical thing to have in a personal homepage.

The list always tends to get outdated even if I [rarely] happen to update it. But I keep the list since every now and then somebody has given me feedback that they found something useful through the link list I have here.

So here’s some places to go with a single click.

Software development

• Links & Archives

  • RFC archive – in ftp.funet.fi
  • Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia – Trip to the past
  • Faqsys – The classic. Lots of information about different topics.
  • Numerical Recipes – Books about pile of general algorithms

• 3D

  • Crystal Space – A Free 3D Engine project
  • Genesis3D – Open Source 3D Engine project
  • GraphicsPapers.com – Big online information source of graphics algorithms
  • Irrlicht – Nice and totally free 3D engine
  • OpenGL – Official OpenGL site
  • NeHe Productions – OpenGL Tutorials
  • Real-Time Rendering Resources – Web site for the book Real-Time Rendering

• Java

  • Java.sun.com – The source for Java developers
  • Retrologic – RetroGuard Java Obfuscator
  • Zelix KlassMaster – Advanced second generation Java obfuscator
  • Smokescreen Java Obfuscator – Another utility to garble your class files
  • preEmptive Solutions – DashO Java Obfuscater
  • Excelsior – Java-based products
  • BeanShell – Lightweight Scripting for Java
  • Jad – The fast Java Decompiler
  • Canadian Mind Products Distributed Utilities – Small Java utilities
  • C++ -> Java Talk – Comparison between C++ and Java
  • JavaWorld – Java News and Information
  • Servlets.com – Java Servlet Resources
  • Silence – Java music player

• Libraries

  • SDL – Simple DirectMedia Layer – Widely used cross-platform media library
  • wxWidgets – Cross-platform GUI library
  • Common C++ Libraries – Portable C++ application framework
  • GTS – The GNU Triangulated Surface Library
  • gd – A graphics library for fast image creation
  • ClanLib – A Game SDK
  • The FreeType Project – A Free, Quality, and Portable Font Engine
  • Pixel Toaster – Fast portable framebuffer graphics
  • Titan – Portable image and animation handler
  • PNG Home Site – Portable Network Graphics, An Open, Extensible Image Format with Lossless Compression
  • JPEG – JBIG – Home site of the JPEG and JBIG committees
  • MNG Home Page – A PNG-like Image Format Supporting Multiple Images, Animation and Transparent JPEGs
  • The MNG library – Multiple-image Network Graphics library
  • zlib Home Site – Patent-free and widely used compression library
  • JJ2000 Public Homepage – An Implementation of the JPEG2000 standard in Java^TM
  • JasPer – A Software-Based JPEG-2000 Codec Implementation
  • STLport – Version of C++ STL

• Sites

  • Paul Bourke – Personal Pages – Interesting information about rendering, modeling, algorithms and more
  • Geometric Tools – Computer Graphics, Image Analysis, and Numerical Methods
  • CodeColony – Small site with some tutorials
  • Game Developer Magazine – Game Development articles
  • Creating Hot Games – Small site with information about game making basics with Win32
  • CodeGuru – Yet another developer site
  • flipCode – Dead game development site. Archives are still worth browsing.
  • ACME Laboratories – Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972
  • The Sourcerer – Algorithms (and more) from Cubic
  • Wotsit’s Format – The Programmer’s File Format Collection
  • GameDev.net – Your Source for Game Development and Game Dictionary
  • Tien-Tsin Wong – Dusty Computer Graphics Page
  • developerWorks : Linux – IBM’s Linux development site
  • MindView – Books online
  • The Geometry Center – Center for the Computation and Visualization of Geometric Surfaces
  • The good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page – A collection of original and unique articles from graphics to physical modeling
  • Gamasutra – The Art & Science of Making Games

• Documents, References and Tutorials

  • The Common Gateway Interface – CGI Documentation
  • Tcl/Tk Manual – Reference for Tcl/Tk
  • Reserved Identifiers in C – Identifiers NOT To Use in C Programs

• Other

  • XML 1.0 – Extensible Markup Language (2nd Edition), W3C Recommendation
  • Craig W. Reynolds – Some AI related information in this home page
  • Jargon File Resources – The New Hacker’s Dictionary

• Web technologies

  • HTML 4.01 Specification – The standard way to express yourself through browsers
  • CSS level 1 – Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 – W3C Recommendation
  • CSS level 2 – Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 – W3C Recommendation
  • Dynamic HTML Demos – Jeff Rule’s Dynamic HTML and SMIL Site
  • Web-julkaisemisen opas – Web publishing document in Finnish
  • JavaScript-opas – JavaScript guide in Finnish
  • JavaScript Examples – Examples included in the book JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

• Free C/C++ Compilers

  • C++ Builders – Borland’s compilers for free
  • Cygwin – GNU development tools and utilities for Windows
  • GNU mingw32 – Another port of GNU C++ for Windows
  • GCC Home Page – GNU Compiler Collection
  • Visual C++ Express – Free edition of the Visual Studio compiler

• Language Pages

  • C – The current C programming language standard
  • Perl – There Is More Than One Way To Do It
  • C++ – The C++ Programming Language
  • Small – A little scripting language
  • PHP – Hypertext Preprocessor

• Perl

  • FREEPerlCode.com – Hundreds of free Perl scripts
  • The Roth Consulting Perl Page – Win32 extensios for Perl
  • The Perl Journal – The only magazine devoted to Perl
  • Perl Mongers – Perl user groups
  • the sirc IRC client – An IRC client programmed and programmable in perl

• Windows

  • MSDN Online – Essential resources for developers
  • Chris Dragan’s Corner – sources of Win32 software created in assembly
  • the DirectX eXperience – Old info of DirectDraw Game Programming
  • Win95 GPE – The Win95 Game Programmer’s Encyclopedia (oldie!)

• Fun stuff

  • Hello, World Page – “Hello, World!” in so many languages, but still not yet in all of them

• Music and Sound

  • MikMod and libmikmod – The Boldest Sound On The Planet
  • Ogg Vorbis – Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compessed audio format
  • mpg123 – Fast MP3 Player for Linux and UNIX systems
  • FMOD – Quality Music and Sound Effects System from Firelight Multimedia
  • BASS – Sound system for Windows and some utilities
  • OpenCP – Open Cubic Player

• Utilities

  • GNU Emacs – the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor every coder should have and use
  • GNU Emacs for Windows – even MS users shouldn’t rely on notepad in place of the great Emacs
  • UPX – the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
  • 010 Editor – A feature rich hex editor capable of parsing and editing binary files.

• Network

  • WinSock Development Information – Material from book Windows Sockets Network Programming
  • Beej’s Guide to Network Programming – Get a grip on the networking noise

Education

• University of Helsinki – Department of Computer Science – A leading academic research institute of computer science in Finland
• Mathdept in Helsinki – Department of Mathematics in University of Helsinki

Magazine and news sites

• Slashdot – News for nerds, stuff that matters
• MikroBitti – Biggest Finnish computer magazine

Linux & Unix software and more

• OpenOffice.org – Complete Office suite with source code available. Available for Windows and Mac OS X too.
• cURL – Client to fetch URLs
• Linux AVI file library home page – Project to support more fancy codecs on Linux
• Red Hat – Serving the Linux and Open Source Communities
• Ubuntu – Try it
• Tucows Linux – Moo
• freshmeat.net – The first stop for Linux users hunting for software
• Linux.com – Site from Linux Foundation
• The Linux Counter – Go register all your linux machines
• Linux International – A non-profit association to promote Linux
• Linux Central – The /root for Linux resources
• Linux Today – Linux News On Internet Time
• LinuxWorld – Putting Linux to Work

Music and Sound

• Musiikin teorian atomistisia perusharjoituksia – Some basics of music theory in Finnish
• OverClocked ReMix – A website dedicated to reviving the videogame music of yesterday
• Remix.Kwed.Org – The Definitive Guide to C64 MP3 Remakes

Dictionaries and language

• Acronym Finder – Look up 173,000+ acronyms/abbreviations & their definitions
• Merriam-Webster – Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Latin-English Dictionary – For ones who like Latin
• Another Latin English Dictionary – These are so fascinating
• FOLDOC – Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
• Resources on the English language – An annotated link list by Jukka Korpela
• WordNet – a Lexical Databse for English
• Britannica.com – Encyclopedia online

Miscellaneous (uncategorized)

• IRChelp – Internet Relay Chat help archive
• Putty – A Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client
• On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences – Search for information of your favourite number sequence
• IMDb – The Internet Movie Database
• Drivers HQ – Complete Driver Search (Win)
• HowStuffworks.com – Learn how Everything Works
• Tom’s Hardware Guide – Up-to-date hardware information
• FXConverter – Foreign Exchange Currency Converter for 164 currencies
• Arrak Anagrammit – Automatic anagram generator (Finnish)
• sodaplay – Check out the sodaconstructor (be sure to have some extra time to spend)
• Netcraft – Web Server Survey

Home pages

• stRana – Interesting artist (Finnish)
• Sol – Stories and code stories
• Random – Random artist
• !Cube – The best musician
• Teque – Da Studio
• Xmunkki.org – Xmunkki’s site
• Phaser – Phaser’s stuff
• Paul Bourke – Interesting stuff about mathematics, modeling and more
• Ken Perlin – Nice Java applets and more
• Chris Hecker – Nice articles
• Eric Haines – Graphics resources
• Skaven – Skaven’s home page

Graphics, art and related

• Kaj Stenvall – Duck paintings
• Tachyon – Parallel/Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System
• The Geometry Junkyard – The Geometry site
• GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program. I don’t use it.
• GIMP for Win – GTK+ and GIMP for Windows. I don’t use this either.
• Bratta – A Dynamic HTML site
• goodbrush.com – The Art of Craig Mullins
• blender – Free 3D Software. I don’t know how to use this, but I wish I would.
• TheForce.net – Your Daily Dose of Star Wars
• Artchive – Big art site
• Strata – Opening the Creative Environment

Humor

• BOFH – The Bastard Operator from Hell
• Haksun Huumorisivut – Humour site in Finnish

Games

• Garagegames.com – Torque3D etc.
• JavaGame.Net – Free Web-based Java Games
• Yahoo! Games – Bunch of classics
• madmonkey.net – Independent game network
• FreeArcade.com – Java games
• TyperA – Test your typing skills
• PopCap Games – Bunch of nice casual games
• PocketGamer – Games in your pocket
• Planet Freeplay – Bringing the world of free games together

Demoscene

• tAAt – The demoscene troll
• Scene.org – Scene site with archive
• Assembly – Assembly demo parties
• The Party – Demo parties in Denmark
• pouet.net – Scene catalogy

Search engines and information

(if Google and Wikipedia aren’t enough)

• AltaVista – Search portal
• Internet FAQ Consortium – Loads of FAQ’s
• kartta.hel.fi – Helsingin ja pääkaupunkiseudun opaskartta (Finnish)
• 02.fi – 02 (Finnish)
• Babelfish – Babelfish translator
• Yahoo! – Portal with search
• Ask Jeeves – Have a Question? Ask here.

Comics

• User Friendly the Comic Strip – For IT people
• Dilbert – Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers
• GPF – General Protection Fault comic strip
• PvP – Player versus Player
• Gone with the Blastwave – Strange humor
• XKCD – Romance, sarcasm, math and language
• Viivi ja Wagner – Popular Finnish comic
• Fingerpori – Weird humor (Finnish)