people, interviews, articles

• Paul Graham
  he's an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer; a very nice page
• Eric S. Raymond's Home Page
  although a true hacker, he has no problem with being a person of public interest
• Richard Stallman's Personal Page
  the force behind the GNU Project and founder of the church of saint ignucius
• Bruce Perens
  a leader in the Free Software and Open Source community, vice president at Sourcelabs
• Amit J Patel: Home Page
  the page every beginning game designer should have visited, others may also find it useful
• Home Page of Dirk Craeynest
  a small group of real programmers write the green language, he knows and shows why
• Alan Turing - Home Page
  a comprehensive page about one of the most important computer science pioneers

• A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
  a funny to read document containing many good thoughts, you remember Ensign Ro Laren?
• nscp dorm
  some excerpts from Jamie Zawinski's diary during the first few months of Netscape Communications
• Some Notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle
  read what A. Tanenbaum said about a lousy book from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
• Rob Enderle Keynote Address
  a Speech given at SCO Forum August 3, 2004 (known as "Free Software and the Idiots who Buy It")
• The story of Mel
  do real programmers write in Fortran? follow the link if you want to read a strange story

operating systems

• The DragonFly BSD Project
  an open source os forked from the well known secure and stable freebsd 4.4 tree
• beunited.org - BeOS-compatible Operating Systems
  these guys provide a fine general purpose start page for all beos and clones interested people
• beosonline.com - Creator of the first BeOS/OpenBeOS Distribution
  the name says it - here you can get the so called BeOS Developer Edition 1.1
• Syllable - News
  a not yet complete but already good looking fast, gui based open source system
• MenuetOS
  a GUI based 32bit OS for the PC written in assembly language, network and multitasking

• Bona Fide OSDev
  informative collection of docs, tutorials and sources around OS development
• Free Shell Accounts
  searching for some free beer unix shells? here you will find a nice list

software development

• A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Languages
  a high-level overview of some of the more commonly-used languages, published on IT Hare
• certstaffix - Web Development Tutorials & Training Resources
  the foundations of good Web design are three types of coding: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Mozilla Developer Center
  a comprehensive, usable, accurate, and valuable resource for web developers
• O'Reilly Network: Mozilla as an Application Virtual Machine
  very informative article about XPFE technology, published by O'Reilly's Mozilla DevCenter
• Introducing XUL - The Net's Biggest Secret: Part 1
  another article speaking about the Zool revolution, contains many useful links
• XPToolkit: Cross-Platform UI Toolkit
  making cross-platform user interfaces as easy to build and customize as web pages
• resource description framework
  a W3C technology used by Mozilla to integrate and aggregate Internet resources
• Creating XPCOM Components
  a tutorial about developing for the Cross Platform Component Object Model used by Mozilla
• JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language
  few know that JavaScript is a nice dynamic object-oriented general-purpose language
• Amaya Home Page
  create and update web documents, support for XHTML, MathML, SVG, RDF, XLink, XPointer etc.
• HTML Applications (HTA)
  visit the Microsoft Developer Network and have fun reading about a new idea
• ASTALAVISTA.NET - Advanced Security Member Portal
  this page gives you a handy tool for figuring out which operating system is running on a server

• Ada Home: the Home of the Brave Ada Programmers (HBAP)
  a modern programming language designed to support software engineering principles and practices
• Ada Information Clearinghouse Home Page
  provides articles on Ada applications, available compilers, current job offerings, and more
• STSC - Programming Languages - Ada CrossTalk Articles
  the STSC Ada Technology team is available to provide evaluation and technology insertion help
• The Big Book of Linux Ada Programming
  the author published it online so that the facts about Linux Ada programming would be understood
• Ada Resources
  shows a few of the primary starting places for sources of ada related information
• Ada Tutorials
  the name says it - some online Ada tutorials designed for self-study
• PegaSoft Canada - Business Shell
  powerful Linux/UNIX shell for designing secure, reliable scripts that can be compiled later
• GtkAda home page
  an Ada95 graphical toolkit based on Gtk+, providing the complete set of widgets

• Free Pascal - Advantages of programing in Pascal and Free Pascal
  here you can read some facts about a nice compiler for an even nicer language
• GNU Pascal
  the Pascal compiler of the GNU family, my personal favourite when working with Pascal code
• Keywords and operators supported by GNU Pascal
  a lot of useful information here, the document title seems a bit misleading to me
• ISO/IEC 10206:1990 Extended Pascal
  as you expected - the iso specs, visit the main page to find a lot of content and useful links
• Turbo Pascal Lex/Yacc
  the famous compiler generator toolset as a TP version, seems to support Free Pascal and Delphi too

• O'Reilly Open Book Project
  a fine collection of online books published under different kinds of open copyright
• Open Source Development Tutorials
  the name says it - server and client side coding, design, databases, web hosting etc.
• Main Page - Mono
  Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET applications on many platforms
• The C Standard Library
  a short reference of the ANSI Standard C library functions, sometimes useful
• CGDB - a curses debugger
  goal of CGDB is to be lightweight and responsive; not encumbered with unnecessary features
• The NCSA HTTPd Home Page
  the historical http/1.0 compatible http server written by NCSA's Software Development Group
• Java: Programmiersprache der Zukunft?
  a german article speaking about the weaknesses of this so called language of the future

gnu project, linux

• Arch Linux
  the web page of my new favourite Linux distribution, thanks to Judd and all the others
• Twibright Labs Software Projects
  links2 text mode browser and more made by Computer Science graduates from Charles University, Prague
• Window Managers for X
  descriptions, screenshots and configuration files for all popular linux and unix window managers
• Openbox 3
  a standards compliant, light-weight, extensible window manager, can be used with GNOME and KDE
• SSH Filesystem
  a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol, works on top of FUSE
• mozdev.org - enigmail
  an extension to the mozilla mail client that allows you to deal with GnuPG/PGP mail encryption
• lphdisk - Linux PHDISK
  this page offers a utility for preparing a hibernation partition for APM Suspend-To-Disk
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
  an in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting, written by Mendel Cooper
• The Boot Manager Grub
  learn about the utilization possibilities and the structure of the Grand Unified Bootloader
• Joe's Own Editor 2.8
  a short function overview belonging to the best text editor in the whole world

gopher protocol

• gopherproject.org
  one of the world's few maintained, modern gopher servers
• gopher.quux.org - Standards and Specs: RFC
  experience the power of gopher - good clean information, no popups, no advertising
• gopherd man page
  serve data using the gopher protocol, all you need, nothing more to say
• GOPHER Clients and Servers
  a bit outdated, nevertheless still interesting for some people

small helpers

• Ascii Table - ASCII character codes
  the standard 7 Bit table as dec, hex, oct, html plus the US extended codes
• Basic Calculator
  a simple javascript based tool for your everyday calculations
• BugMeNot.com - tell everyone you know
  this site allows you to easily bypass compulsory web registration
• jsBinaryClock
  small JavaScript clock showing german local time in a geek readable form