====== information technology ======

===== programming =====
  * [[http://www.isocpp.org]] -- "the home of standard C++ on the web".
  * [[http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=cplusplus]] -- nice, easy to read [[wp>C++]] and [[wp>C++0x]] introduction and features overview.
  * [[http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout]] -- online C++ compiler, declared by authors to be very standard-compliant. interesting reference point if in doubt i think.
  * [[http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/table_of_contents.html]] -- SGI's %%C++%% STL implementation reference documentation.
  * [[http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api]] -- java 2 documentation.
  * [[http://www.cppreference.com]] -- %%C++%% references.
  * [[http://www.asterix.wonder.pl/pub/linux/v4l]]  -- Video4Linux API description with examples.
  * [[http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm?info/apis/rzah4mst.htm]] -- POSIX threads description.
  * [[http://www.boost.org]] -- BOOST %%C++%% library collection home page.


===== algorithms =====
  * [[http://www.kalinskyassociates.com/OnLineLearning.html]] -- links to topics related to embedded design.
  * [[http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/fr/buildings/diss/node5.html]] -- many algorithms related to computer vision systems and image processing.
  * [[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/hipr_top.htm]] -- some more algorithms for image processing.

===== security =====
  * [[http://pgp.mit.edu]] -- place to put your public PGP key available online.
  * [[http://niebezpiecznik.pl]] -- polish site related to security; many interesting articles and news.
  * [[http://ikat.ha.cked.net]] -- iKAT is a tool to automate net-booth restrictions overcomming.
  * [[http://code.google.com/p/wifite]] -- tool for automatic WiFi (WEP/WPA) security checks/cracks.
  * [[http://www.maxmind.com]] -- gives location of IP owner.
  * [[http://www.whois.sc]] -- tells who has given IP assigned.
  * [[http://pipl.com]] -- people search engine. looks for indexed resources about given person, finds pictures and more.

===== software =====
  * [[http://code.google.com/p/thrust]] -- STL-like wrapper for CUDA computations for C++.
  * [[http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org]] -- interesting library developed by [[wp>Intel]], offering non-straight-forward approach to multithreaded programming. some concepts are similar to [[wp>OpenMP]].
  * [[http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd]] -- Hiren's Boot is a set of useful (rescue) tools on a boot CD.
  * [[http://bazaar-vcs.org]] -- interesting, distributed source version control i use.
  * [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html]] -- links to many pages with computer software related to image processing.
  * [[http://www.boost.org]] -- BOOST %%C++%% library collection home page.
  * [[http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.html]] -- Mercurial is a distributed source controll system written in Python. here is link to e-book (htmls) describing it in detail.
  * [[http://tut-framework.sourceforge.net]] -- unit test framework written in C++. i use it in my [[:prjs:build process:build process]].
  * [[http://www.cadsoft.de]] -- free for non-commercial use PCB editor for linux and windows.
  * [[http://www.easyvmx.com]] -- very easy way of generating virtual machines for [[http://vmware.com|VMware]].
  * [[http://www.sumopaint.com]] -- photoshop-like application in flash to edit images.
  * [[https://github.com/ARMmbed/littlefs]] -- littlefs is a lightweight, fail-safe filesystem for microcontrollers with FUSE-based support on linux.
===== interesting blogs =====
  * [[http://joelonsoftware.com]] -- blog related to programming and software engineering. many interesting articles on common problems in computer science.
  * [[http://codinghorror.com]] -- "programming and human factors" with a lot of interesting discussions.
  * [[http://worsethanfailure.com]] -- WTF points interesting failures in IT/code on daily basis.

===== misc =====
  * [[http://no-spam.ws]] -- site that creates e-mail addresses on-the-fly - no registration, to passwords. perfect for "give e-mail address to register"-and-forget pages.
  * [[http://versioncontrolblog.com/comparison/Bazaar/ClearCase/Mercurial/Subversion/Visual%20SourceSafe/index.html]] -- interesting comparison between different version control systems (VCS).
  * [[http://letmegooglethatforyou.com]] -- the-ultimate-repsponse(TM) for 75% of stupid questions. ;)