Software Development Links

Artificial Life

The Live ALife Page: Some interactive demonstrations of artificial life/evolution techniques.
EvoNet: Research group dedicated to evolutionary computing

Java

Java Homepage
Java FAQ: The overall Java FAQ provided by Sun.
The Swing Connection: Homepage for information about Swing, otherwise known as JFC (Java Foundation Classes)
alphaWorks: Source of useful, free Java classes and utilities, from IBM.
Java Cryptography Extension: Cryptography framework and implementations for Java.
jGuru: "Portal" site containing various information about Java.
Borland JBuilder: Java IDE. Borland offers a freeware version.

Internet Standards

POP3: The official specifications for the POP3 mail protocol.
SMTP: The official specifications for the SMTP mail protocol.
MIME: The official specifications for the MIME encoding/decoding standard.
ARPA Internet Text Messages: Common formatting rules to all text messages transferred via the Internet.
USENET: USENET message format specification.
NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol specifications.
ISO 8601: International Standard Date and Time Notation: Date & Time format specifications
A Summary of the International Standard Date and Time Notation: A summarized (and non-pdf) version of the ISO 8601 specification for date and time formats
HTTP/1.1: HTTP/1.1 specification

Parsing Tools

Visual Parse++: Visual development environment for writing lexers and parsers.
Regex++: Regular expression library for C++.
LTG Software: Various parsing and validation tools

WinSock

The Winsock Programmer's FAQ: Answers to common questions about Winsock development.
WinSock Version 2.0 Overview: An unofficial - but very informational - site about the Winsock 2 API.

JavaScript

JavaScript FAQs: Various FAQs about using JavaScript

PalmOS Development

GCC Development Tools: Palm's page listing the tools (with download links) needed for developing Palm applications with GCC (freeware)
ASDK Overview: Loosely tied set of utilities for developing PalmOS applications under Win32. Does not include a C compiler - only an assembler - but many of the tools are still used with the GNU C cross-compiler.
Greg Hewill's PalmPilot Development Tools: Copilot and Jump
GCC for Win32 (Pilot) homepage: GCC, a freeware C compiler for Win32 (Windows 95/NT) which builds PalmOS applications (.prc files)
Creator IDs: Every PalmOS application must have a unique "Creator ID." Any one PalmOS handheld may only have one application with any given Creator ID installed at one time. To avoid problems, USRobotics has provided a central Creator ID Registry. Before writing a Pilot application, it is very important that you register a Creator ID for that application at this site.
PilRC: Tool for building the GUI end of a PalmOS application.
Palm OS Emulator: A Palm handheld emulator which runs under Win32. Formerly known as Copilot.
Tools and Articles: Information about what's going on in the Pilot development area, with links to many of the necessary development tools.
Jump: Build PalmPilot applications in Java.
Pilot Software Development: Collection of miscellaneous links relating to PalmPilot application development.
PalmOS Documentation: Developer documentation on the PalmOS. Softcopy available for download, with links to purchase hardcopies.
Palm OS Programming: The Developer's Guide: Very good reference and learning tool for both PalmOS and conduit development.
ZenPlus: A C++ class library for use with building PalmOS applications, formerly known as "Teenee".
PilotMAG: IDE for use with GCC. Appears to be centered primarily on forms processing applications.
AppForge: Development platform for use with Visual Basic to create Palm applications. (Haven't tried it myself, but it looks interesting)
xFont: Win32 utility to create custom fonts for the Palm
pbm2pfnt: Converts PBM files into fonts for use with PilRC
Pilot Font Editor: Win32 utility to create Palm fonts

XML

XML 1.0: The official specification
IBM XML Web Site: Site hosted by IBM with some helpful links to XML tools and articles
Cafe con Leche XML News and Resources: News and software related to XML
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL): Reference material about XSL
XML.com: More XML resources - news, utilities, etc.
XMLSoftware: Collection of XML-related software.
XQL FAQ: FAQ about XML Query Language
The Apache XML Project: Freeware XML parser for Java and C++
expat: Very easy to use and high-performance freeware XML parser for C/C++ (C interface)

HTML

Server Side Includes Tutorial: How to build a web site with SSI
Beseen: A small collection of helpful off-site utilities for your web site, like hit counters - but all run off-site, so none require any support from your ISP
Evrsoft: Creators of 1st Page 2000, a freeware HTML editor
webmonkey: Another collection of tips & tricks and tutorials for building web sites
.htaccess: Instructions on how to use the .htaccess file, if your web server supports it
HTAccess Authentication Tutorial: Tutorial on using .htaccess files
Moreover: A completely free way of adding current news to your web site
Sitepoint.com: Free resources for webmasters
freetools.com: Set of free tools that can be included in web sites (polls, message boards, etc.)
HTTP-Analyze: Tool to assist with web server logfile analysis

Miscellaneous

Squeak: Freeware Smalltalk development environment. Includes the ability to create C source.
Microsoft Scripting Technologies: VB-based scripting for Windows NT, 95, providing a richer batch-file-like scripting capability.
Microsoft Scripting Technologies Documentation: Online reference documentation for Windows Script Host
ActivePerl: Embeddable Perl compiler/interpreter
Cypress Enable: Embeddable VBA-like compiler/interpreter
ISAPI: Reference guide (from Microsoft) for developing ISAPI extensions and filters
STLPort: Freeware implementation of STL (C++) for most platforms

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