Links
This is my links page.
Personal
RSIControl - a
Windows program I wrote which alerts the user to take a break at set intervals
to avoid repetitive stress injury. The
source is also available, though it's a little bit out of date.
WinWrists - A rewrite of RSIControl that is based
on keyboard usage, similar to xwrits.
Frequently Forgotten Stuff
- my page of hints about Linux, Windows, and other programs.
Recipes - my page of
cooking recipes.
Research
CS-specific
Compendex
INSPEC
IEEExplore
ACM Digital Library
CiteSeer
Digital Bibliography & Library Project
Collection of Computer
Science Bibliographies
The Computing
Research Repository (CoRR)
Highly cited
researchers
More general
WorldCat
Lexis-Nexis
National Technical Information Service
Defence Technical Information Center
Google Scholar
Software development
IEEE Software
Engineering Online
IEEE Computer Society RSS feeds
WikiWikiWeb - design patterns, XP, and
more!
Ward Cunningham's testing framework
Joel on software - Joel Spolsky
expounds on software issues.
Software Development magazine
Computing Curricula for Software
Engineering (CCSE)
Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK)
and its discontents
Practical Software Measurement guidebook
Hacknot
SEWORLD
Software-related weblogs
Martin Fowler
Dave Thomas
Andy Hunt
Artima Weblogs -
including Bruce Eckel, Robert Martin, Guido van Rossum, Ward Cunningham, Eric Raymond, and
others.
Coding horror
Online books
Dive Into Python
Thinking in Java
Why's poignant guide to Ruby
Programming Ruby
Structure and
Interpretation of Computer Programs
IEEE Computer Society online books
(members only)
Numerical Recipes
in C
Engineering
Statistics
Notes
on S-PLUS: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and
Graphics
Text Processing in
Python
Designing and
Building Parallel Programs
Lots of other online
books
Statistics
Power analysis applet
Maryland / D.C.
D.C. Metrorail map
Montgomery County Library System
WAMU - NPR in Washington D.C.
Outdoor Adventures in
Maryland
Maryland Board of Physician Quality
Assurance
Politics and Prose - Excellent
D.C. bookstore
Ultimate Watersports
Maryland Seafood Festival
CS Technical/Professional
Computing Research Association - job openings
for university professors
New Software
Engineering Faculty Symposium
How to get
that first grant
Distance Learning
(through IEEE Computer Society)
Professional Development Centre (through ACM)
Free online training
(through UMD)
University of Maryland
Maryland Electronic Graduate System
University of Maryland
Library system (Bookmarklet, see also here.)
University of Maryland CS
Library
Travel Policies and
Information
Travel Approval Request Worksheet
Travel agents
UMD Research Port
UMD Software chat
AV Williams room
reservations
Guest wireless access
CS Graduate Student Review site
Software Engineering at Maryland
Department of Measurement,
Statistics & Evaluation
Campus Map
Campus Recreation Services
University Book Center
Dept.
of Transportation Services (shuttle schedules)
International Education Services (IES)
Administrative Resouce Enterprise Services
(ARES)
netLibrary
University VPN software
Computer science VPN software
The Diamondback
Campus parking
Division of Research and Graduate Studies
Important grad student documents
(including dissertation manual)
Graduate student handbook
Graduate Student Government
CS Graduate Student Executive Council
Graduate student
involvement
UMD Graduate
student discussion board
Tech
2004 Posters
Academic Careers
for CS Graduates
Graduate Student Career
Services
Terp Online Career
Center
Terp Underground
CS Underground
Maryland Atheist Students
Association
Accessing the CS
network from home
Terp Runners
Cell phone
plans for state employees
Metrochek for graduate
students
UMD health care benefits
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield claim
forms
National Association of Graduate and Professional
Students
Access
grids on campus: CSIC, CSS
Travel
Country
Travel Reports (Canadian government)
Engineering stuff
The Ritual of the Calling of an
Engineer (Canada)
The Order of the
Engineer (US)
Order
of the Engineer at UMD
Politics
Plastic.com - current events discussion
board. I spend way too much time there.
Spinsanity - political rhetoric
watchdog
FactCheck - political fact checker
lying in ponds - tracks the amount
of "partisanship" in columnists
Opensecrets - breakdown of campaign
contributions to each party
Project Vote Smart -
tracks politican voting records and their positions on various
issues
SourceWatch (directory of
special interest groups, left-leaning site)
Liberal rags
Washington
Monthly
The Nation
Conservative rags
The Weekly
Standard
National Review
The American
Spectator
Media bias
Journalist
Survey (section IV in particular)
Measure
of Media Bias from think tank citings
Is
the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? (written by Daniel
Okrent, Public Editor for the New York Times)
Being
the New York Times: The Political Behavior of a Newspaper -
Economics PhD thesis of Riccardo Puglisi
Partisan media watchdogs
Fairness & Accuracy In
Reporting (left)
Media Transparency (left)
PR Watch (left)
Accuracy in Media (right)
Discover The Network (right)
References and tutorials
refcards.com - easily printable
reference pages for Emacs,TeX,CVS and others
Temporary emails for online registration
Sneakemail
Mailinator
shortMail.net
PookMail.com
News registration logins
BugMeNot
Judaism
Har Shalom
DCJCC
Washington Jewish Week
Shtetl Gombin (where Bubby Esther, my
paternal grandmother's family, came from)
Interactive Jewish Calendar
Software engineering standards & tech reports
IEEE
standards
ISO standards
NASA SEL
reports
SEI reports
Alum websites
Wagar High School
Marianopolis College
McGill University
Boston University
The opposite of what you would expect
Optimization: your worst enemy
Everything is bad for you (from Usenet)
"Starve
the beast" doesn't work
Being
overweight does not increase mortality rates (JAMA paper)
Education
John Gatto's website
Memory hole
musings on education
The origins of the American High School
Confessions
of a textbook editor
The 65 cent proposal
HTML References
A List Apart
HTML Help
Cheat sheets
for web technologies
CSSZenGarden
Web Developer's Network
Useful software tools
Windows
TopDesk - Easy access to programs on your
desktop
PuTTY - SSH
client
RSS Reader Panel - RSS feed
reader for Mozilla Firebird
BiblioExpress -
Simple reference manager
TortoiseCVS - CVS client integrated
into Windows Explorer
ExamDiff -
Graphical diff
Developer
and power tools list
Palm
HandyShopper - track groceries
HappyDays - track
birthdays
DiddleBug
- drawing program and timer
Unix
flip - newline
conversion between Unix & Windows text files
Useful open source tools
Python
CVS
R (mailing list)
Plone (book)
Roundup Issue Tracker
dotProject.net project management software
Interesting-looking software engineering tools
Augur
Rigi
Strange singing things
We like the moon!
Mahna
Mahna
Neat stuff on the web
Alexa traffic rankings
Canada
Connect2Canada
Random stuff
Hate
groups in America
Software
Errors Cost U.S. Economy $59.5 Billion Annually - Study
commissioned by NIST
Famous Americans most people haven't heard of
Norman Borlaug (father of the "green revolution")
W. Edward Deming (influenced Japanese manufacturing quality in the 1950's)
The environment
realclimate.org
Joint science academies' statment
Philosophy of climate science
Climate
Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions - A report commissionned
by President Bush from the National Academy of Sciences.
Scientific
Integrity in Policymaking - criticisms of administration by the Union of Concerend Scientists
Office of Science and Technology
Response to Union of Concerned Scientists
Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications