Links

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

In early days of the internet it was customary to feature a link collection in a homepage. I did that too.

Links tend to get outdated, and I don’t actively maintain this list. So there’s a chance a link doesn’t work anymore or leads to wrong place. Please notify me if that happens. However, please also note that I generally don’t appreciate requests for adding something to this page.

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

Recommended

(Links below have my referral info/code)

• Unity Asset Store

  Stuff to ease development with the Unity engine

• MOO.com business cards, postcards, minicards, …

  Get 10% off on your first order

• iHerb.com – 5-10% off on your first order

  (coupon/reward code MQR882, applies to new customers)

• Books

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. (Site is dead, so the link now points to archive.org’s copy)
  • Numerical Recipes – About general algorithms

• 3D

  • Unity – Excellent 3D engine (also for 2D)
  • JCGT.org – Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques
  • Irrlicht – Nice and totally free 3D engine
  • OpenGL – Official OpenGL site
  • Real-Time Rendering Resources – Web site for the book Real-Time Rendering

• C#

  • Visual C#
  • Mono C# Compiler

• Java

  • Processing – For prototyping, a software sketchbook
  • Java.Oracle.com – The source for Java developers
  • Jad – The fast Java Decompiler
  • C++ -> Java Talk – Comparison between C++ and Java
    

• Libraries

  • stb libraries – Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
  • stb’s list of other similar libs – more usefulness
  • clib Packages – Yet more snippets
  • SDL – Simple DirectMedia Layer – Widely used cross-platform media library
  • wxWidgets – Cross-platform GUI library
  • The FreeType Project – A Free, Quality, and Portable Font Engine
  • PNG Home Site – Portable Network Graphics, An Open, Extensible Image Format with Lossless Compression
  • JPEG – JBIG – Home site of the JPEG and JBIG committees
  • zlib Home Site – Patent-free and widely used compression library

• Sites

  • Geometric Tools – Computer Graphics, Image Analysis, and Numerical Methods
  • Game Developer Magazine – Game Development articles
  • flipCode – Dead game development site. Archives are still worth browsing.
  • Wotsit’s Format – The Programmer’s File Format Collection (Site is dead, so the link now points to archive.org’s copy)
  • GameDev.net – Your Source for Game Development and Game Dictionary
  • Gamasutra – The Art & Business of Making Games
  • Tien-Tsin Wong – Dusty Computer Graphics Page
  • Paul Bourke – Personal Pages – Interesting information about rendering, modeling, algorithms and more
  • Ken Perlin – Nice Java applets and more
  • Bit Twiddling Hacks – Useful snippets for fiddling & twiddling bits
    

• Other

  • XML 1.0 – Extensible Markup Language (2nd Edition), W3C Recommendation
  • Jargon File Resources – The New Hacker’s Dictionary
  • Web-julkaisemisen opas – Ancient web publishing document in Finnish
  • Cygwin – GNU development tools and utilities for Windows

• Free C/C++ Compilers

  • GCC Home Page – GNU Compiler Collection
  • GNU mingw32 – Another port of GNU stuff for Windows
  • Visual Studio – Express/Community editions are free
  • Open Watcom – This was excellent around late 90’s

• Language Pages

  • C# Programming Language – (wikipedia page about it)
  • C – The current C programming language standard
  • Perl – There Is More Than One Way To Do It
  • C++ – C++ Programming Language BS page
  • PHP – Hypertext Preprocessor
  • Lua – Powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language

• Perl

  • ActivePerl – ActiveState’s Perl for Windows

• Windows

  • MSDN Online – Essential resources for developers

• 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 – Module player library
  • Ogg Vorbis – Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compessed audio format
  • FMOD – Quality Music and Sound Effects System from Firelight Multimedia
  • BASS – Sound system for Windows and some utilities
  • OpenCP – Open Cubic Player
  • SoLoud – Free and portable C/C++ audio engine

• Utilities

  • GNU Emacs – the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor every coder should have and use
  • UPX – the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
    

• Network

  • Beej’s Guide to Network Programming – Get a grip on the networking noise
  • Photon – Networking engine

Magazine and news sites

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

Linux & Unix software and more

• OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.org – Free and complete Office suite(s).
• cURL – Client to fetch URLs
• FFmpeg – Cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
• Ubuntu – Linux distro
• Alpine Linux – Linux distro w/various scopes, also for Raspberry Pi
• Raspbian – Another linux distro for Raspberry Pi

Music and Sound

• OverClocked ReMix – A website dedicated to reviving the videogame music of yesterday
• Remix.Kwed.Org – The Definitive Guide to C64 MP3 Remakes
• gechotonic

Dictionaries and language

• Acronym Finder – Look up 173,000+ acronyms/abbreviations & their definitions
• Merriam-Webster – Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Conjuga-me – Portuguese verb conjugation
• Resources on the English language – An annotated link list by Jukka Korpela

Miscellaneous (uncategorized)

• 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
• Tom’s Hardware Guide – Hardware articles
• Arrak Anagrammit – Automatic anagram generator (Finnish)
• Netcraft – Web Server Survey

Home pages / Blogs

• stRana – Artificial Artform
• Sol – Stories and code stories
• Random – Random artist
• Phaser – Mostly undocumented stuff
• McLad – McLad’s homepage
• !Cube – The best demoscene composer
• Teque – Da Studio
• Xmunkki.org – Xmunkki’s site
• Skaven – Skaven’s home page

Graphics, art and related

• Shadertoy – Toying with shaders in the browser
• The Geometry Junkyard – The Geometry 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.
• Wings3D – Free 3D polygon modeler.

Games

• TyperA – Test your typing skills

Demoscene

• Rustbloom
• Assembly – Assembly events
• tAAt

Search engines and information

(if Google and Wikipedia aren’t enough)

• Internet FAQ Consortium – Loads of FAQ’s
• kartta.hel.fi – Helsingin ja pääkaupunkiseudun opaskartta (Finnish)
• Google – I thought you might need a link to this

Comics

• Dilbert – Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers
• XKCD – Romance, sarcasm, math and language
• Viivi ja Wagner – Popular Finnish comic
• Fingerpori – Weird humor (Finnish)