Software Development Info

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Personal Projects

KbMacro - a systemwide macro hotkey utility for Windows NT/95/98 that utilizes the natural keyboard windows key. The source code is available here
DBWin32 - a useful utility for debugging on Windows NT and 95. The current version is 1.67 and it comes with full source code.
DirWalk - a C++ class that encapsulates Win32 directory traversing
MapProc - a utility to map a memory address to a function name, using a Visual C++ MAP file
InclDep - a utility to display include file dependencies for C/C++
CLines - a utility to count lines of C/C++ source code (ignoring comments and whitespace) with wildcard and directory traversal support
Perfect Hash Function - a Win32 implementation of R.J. Cichelli's perfect hash function generation algorithm from the January 1980 CACM
BASIC Grammar - a PCCTS/ANTLR grammar for a small subset of QBasic
EditPrn - a Windows 3.1 File Manager extension which allows you to print or edit any file, regardless of an extension association

Magazine Article Source Code

DBWin32 - A DBWin32 Debugger for Windows, C/C++ Users Journal, October 1996
ConGUI - Adding Console I/O to a Win32 GUI App, Windows Developer's Journal, December 1997
JCF - Reading Java Class Files In C++, C/C++ Users Journal, April 1998
CeSock - Using WinSock with Windows CE, Windows Developer's Journal, June 1998
CRI - CeRapiInvoke: A New Feature of Windows CE 2.0, Dr Dobb's Journal, September 1998
Semaphores for CE - Windows CE API Quirks, Windows Developer Journal, May 1999
SafeTerminateProcess - A Safer Alternative to TerminateProcess, Windows Developer Journal, July 1999
HTML Parser - Using IE4's HTML Parser, Dr Dobbs Journal, August 1999
HP Jornada Hotkey Editor - Windows CE Power, February 2000
CESH Remote File I/O - Exploiting Hidden Features of CESH, Dr Dobbs Journal, May 2000
Batons - Batons: A Sequential Synchronization Object, Windows Developer Journal, July 2001

Update: checkout the results of reader feedback here

Unpublished Articles

Technical Presentations

Multithreaded Programming with the Win32 API - PowerPoint slides
1999 Windows CE Developers Conference: Tips and Tricks for Debugging with Visual C++ for Windows CE - PowerPoint slides and sample code
History and Internals of TCP/IP - PowerPoint slides
Introduction to Socket Programming - PowerPoint slides and example code

Win32 Development Links

Device Driver Development - Cherry Hill Software's page on Win32 drivers
Mike Blaszczak's MFC Samples - sample code from an ex-member of the MFC dev team
NT Internals - a site supporting the forthcoming book
Ben Goetter's MAPI Programming FAQ
Win32 System Programming - support page for Johnson Hart's Win32 book with lots of interesting Win32 API facts and trivia
lcc-win32 - Jacob Navia's free Win32 development system based on Fraser and Hanson's retargetable C compiler LCC
Internet Resources for Windows Developers - Robert Mashlan's excellent collection of links and FAQ on Windows development
DevCentral - Interface Technologies free MFC extension library ITCLib as well as lots of tutorials on programming topics
Reliable Software - tutorials on lots of Win32 programming topics
Bear Technology's Win32 API Page - many Win32 API tutorials and FAQs
Win32 Programming FAQ - maintained and updated by Steve Loughran
Windows Programing FAQ - another FAQ that covers more than just Win32 APIs
Winsock Programmer's FAQ - Warren Young's helpful page on Winsock development
Bob Moore's Win32 Page - lots of useful Win32 code and links
MVP Visual C++ FAQ - answers to to the most common questions about Visual C++ and MFC
PJ Naughter's Homepage - lots of useful MFC/API code snippets and links
Win95 Assembly Language Programming - Henry Takeuchi's excellent page on Win32 programming in assembler
Undocumented Win32 - Nick Repin's page providing code to exploit useful undocumented features in Windows NT/95/968
CygWin - Win32 ports of the GNU development tools
POSIX Condition Variables for Win32 - Doug Schmidt's paper on monitors and cvs for Win32
WDJ Development Links - WDJ's page with lots of useful Win32 programming resources categorized into logical subjects
MS Spec for FAT and FAT32 - Word, PDF

Windows CE Development Links

C++ Exception Handling and STL for Windows CE - Fedor Sherstyuk's package for emulating C++ EH on Windows CE and
David April's notes on porting the VC5 STL to Windows CE
STL for CE - a ready to run port of the SGI STL v3.13 to CE 2.x
Ten Tips for Programming CE - MSDN article on porting from Windows NT/9x to CE
MSDN CE Tools Page - sample apps and articles on CE development from the big M
Unsupported Software's CE Dev Page - lots of code samples, mostly for the Palm-size PC
Pocket Scheme - Ben Goetter's Scheme environment for the HPC and PSPC and stdio library for CE
Python CE - Brian Lloyd's Python interpreter for CE
NS Basic/CE - free BASIC environment that runs on a CE device
GCC for MIPS/CE - a free GCC back end that targets MIPS-based CE devices
PocketC - a cheap ($25) C system for CE devices. It compiles to pcode which is run by an interpreter.
dsFORTH - a FORTH compiler for CE
CEdit - a syntax coloring C++ editor for CE devices
Chris De Herrera's CE Website - an excellent site for technical and programming info on CE
CE Winsock Support - gobs of information of CE's WinSock implementation
WindowsCE-Dev Mailing List
LinuxCE - project dedicated to running Linux on commercial CE devices. Ingenious!
CE Gadgets - home of the CE Developer and Registry FAQ lists
Embedded CE FAQ - provided by Steve Maillet at Entelechy Consulting

C/C++ Links

Safe STL - Cay Horstmann's modified STL that catches common programming errors
Allan Clarke's Homepage - lots of useful links and info, including the C++ Tip of the Day
Steve Summit's C FAQ
Bob Stout's Snippets Page - a collection of useful source code and utilities
Free C Runtime Library - source and docs for Al Maromaty's free C RTL (subject to commercial use restrictions)
Comments on Item 27 of More Effective C++ - an interesting follow up on a portion of Scott Meyers' excellent book
International Obfuscated C Code Contest - amazing examples of how NOT to write code
Coronado Tutorials - free online tutorials for C, C++, Ada, Pascal, and Java
Code Warrior U - free online courses on C++ for Win32, C++ for Mac, Java, Embedded Systems, and more
Incompatibilities Between ISO C and ISO C++ - David Tribble's great article on C, C9x, and C++ incompatibilities
C++ Standard and Library Architecture - Nathan Myers' page with several good articles on various aspects of standard C++
Regex++ - John Maddock's free C++ class lib for regular expressions

Compilers and Programming Language Links

Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
MIXBuilder - Bill Menees' Win32 IDE for Knuth's MIX language from his Art of Computer Programming book series
LCC - a free retargetable compiler with many backends. There's also a great book that describes it's design and implementation
DJGPP - DJ Delorie's free C/C++ compiler system for DOS.
Pacific C - free MSDOS C compiler
YACC Grammars - yaccable grammars for several languages (C/C++, Delphi, Java, etc)
BTYACC - a backtracking version of YACC with prebuilt Win32 binaries
ANTLR (formerly PCCTS) page - ANTLR/PCCTS is a great parser/lexer generator that puts YACC/Lex to shame
Parsing Algorithm Demos - applet demos of recursive-descent, LL(1) table-driven and LALR parsing
John Lilley's C++ Parser Page - a C/C++ parser and preprocesser written using PCCTS
The Compiler Connection and Job Resource - their motto is "Linking Compiler Researchers, Compiler Developers,and the Programmers Who Use Their Products"
Cosmic Software Compiler Links
Mark Leone's Programming Language Research Page
The Teaching About Programming Languages Home Page
The Language List - an attempt at a searchable list of all known programming languages
Programming Languages for the Java VM - interesting uses of the Java VM in programming language development and research
Java Memory Model - interesting discussion and info and the ups and downs of the specification
Harissa - a research Java bytecode to C compiler
ILOC - Intermediate Laguage for an Optimizing Compiler project at Rice University
VCG - Visualization of Compiler Graphs project at University of Saarlandes (Germany)
Optimization Categories - descriptive examples of many compiler optimizations
Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism - online journal for architecture and compiler papers about ILP
New Jersey Machine Code Toolkit - a toolkit to build retargetable assembler/disassemblers, code generators, or other machine code utilities
Decompilation Page - great research on decompilation with links to implementations for Java, C, Visual Basic and more
Threaded Code - good tutorial on a technique for implementing interpreters
Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century - a thought provoking article by John Ousterhout
Turbo Pascal 3 Internals - great doc on the implementation of TP3. Borland now gives away their Turbo language products for free

Other Theoretical CS Links

CS Theory Home Page
The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository - support site for the book The Algorithm Design Manual
WWW Computer Architecture Homepage
Memory Management Reference - resource for info on memory management and garbage collection

Interesting People in CS

Donald E. Knuth - author of the famous Art of Computer Programming series and one of my personal heroes
Michael Rabin - inventor of the term "nondeterministic" and the field of probabilistic approximation
Alan Kay - one of the famous XEROX PARC researchers and the father of the idea of the laptop computer

If you'd like to know more about Knuth, Rabin, Kay, and 12 other fundamental contributors to CS, I highly recommend
Out Of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists by Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere
Alan M. Turing - an early and critical founder of theoretical CS
John von Neumann - a brilliant mathematician and early pioneer in computer architecture and cellular automata
Grace Murray Hopper - the inventor of COBOL and the person who coined the term "computer bug"
PJ Plauger - a major part of the C++ standardization process. His company, Dinkumware, provides implementations of the C/C++ standard libraries.
Richard Feynman - not really a CS person, but nevertheless a brilliant and intriguing one. He was the key to solving what happened to the space shuttle Challenger.
Bjarne Stroustrup - creator of the C++ programming language
James Coplien - a major player in the area of C++ and design patterns
Scott Meyers - C++ guru and author the Effective C++ and More Effective C++
Stan Lippman - another big C++ name and author of Inside the C++ Object Model, The C++ Primer, and Essential C++
Tim Berners-Lee - original pioneer of the World Wide Web
Niklaus Wirth - creator of the Pascal and Modula-N programming languages
John Ousterhout - inventor of Tcl/Tk and a big proponent of scripting languages
Jerry Weinberg - educator and author of many excellent books on the people and management aspects of software development

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