Perl Stuff

ActivePerl (Perl For Windows)
Perl.com (O'Reilly)
CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)
Perl-XML Frequently Asked Questions (sourceforge)
PPM Packages from the University of Winnipeg (EZ Win Install)

Joel on Software Discussion Threads of Interest

Links section for JoS -- Programming blogs, sites

Getting Things Done
05-10-05 Motivation
09-29-05 Chronic Procrastinator Seeking Advise
09-23-05 After a very productive day, I can't be productive the next day
09-21-05 Personal time management software?
09-19-05 Idea Management tool

Virtual Machines Etc.
09-27-05 Stupid Question: Testing app on different Windows OS
09-28-05 Annoying virtual PC problem (+solution!) {UK Keyboard not enough}

Version Control Etc.
09-29-05 Tackling Web Service Versioning
09-20-05 Version Control & Builds
09-20-05 Selling version control to a reluctant coder

.NET UI, Frameworks, Etc.
09-25-05 Any suggestions for .Net UI components? Infragistics?
09-22-05 Windows application framework


RSS Reader/Aggregator Suggestions

Data Records Formats Testing Tool (ms newsgroup)
Developing in a Virtual Machine HW Svr, VMWare, or ?
Do you still plan to use Virtual Machines?
Conserve a little bandwidth and make the world a better place
Speaking of blogs... Desktop blog software?
Using FogBUGZ to Get Crash Reports From Users - Automatically!
Joel on Software Reader Web page monitor
How do you collect payments for your microISV?
Easiest, cheapest way to collect payment?
Good, free, XML editor?
How to make ASP or ASP.Net more SE Friendly
I need a free HTML/CSS editor
Anyone here using Groove?
Anti-virus software without renewals
Team Building in Cyberspace
(.NET D/L "Shrinkwrap") What's with Thinstall increasing pricing to $4k per app?
How to install Dot NET automatically in installation
Alternative to Installshield Developer, please!
What Software do you use to index your URL ? Bookmark Manager
Association of Shareware Professionals
Becoming an ISV Launch New S/W
ISV/MicroISV Roll Call
Products that make millions

Would you trust ShareIt et al ?

Articles on good software design
(Fat Clients)
Enterprise sales resistance to rich applications?
Use a code generator

Microsoft Project (Open Source Alternatives)
(Installing Windows Safely)

Best. Keyboard. Ever.

.NET
.NET Forum Software
Build Maker

Version Control

Change control for databases
Version control suggestions VSS Replacement (Sorry!) VSS Book Vault v Subversion commit comment management (Switch VCS) VSS backup?
Version Control for Web Development
Version Control for DB?

Sept 7- , 2005 Stuff

NUnit Documentor (SourceForge.net)
FAR Manager (Text mode file manager)
Vim (vi-like editor)
NDoc Code Documentation Generator for .NET
Beyond Compare - advanced file and folder comparison utility

August 26- , 2005 Notes Etc.

codesnipers.com
www.webhost4life.com - Good prices, features

August 5-13, 2005 Notes Etc.

Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List

.NET Build Versioning
Code Project - Version Resource Tool Using XML/XSLT and .NET
Newsgroup - Build Number

JOS Threads
Useful / Interesting RSS Feeds
Online Payment Processor recommendations?
Revolutionary New Product
Cheap code signing?
Documentation tools
What software do you use for reading feeds?

Technology - Quotes That Didn't

Brainstorming - RandomWord.com

July 26-31, 2005 Notes etc.

SmartInspect - Advanced logging for .NET, Java & Delphi - (Nice looking site too.)
techbargains.com - Coupons etc
viemu - vi/vim editor for VS .NET (by JOS'er)
Refactoring Home Page

www.pinvoke.net - A Wiki
.NET FrameWork Windows Forms

JOS
- Ultimate Laptop ?
- Outsource your own job - HGI help
- Selling RC software - Inc article
- All the moonlighters.. - Time tracking (Free)

CodeProject
- Expresso - A Tool for Building and Testing Regular Expressions
- ASN.1 Editor

IRam Speeds Windows XP Start Up - $60

Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing - Interesting

July 17-23, 2005 Notes Etc.

DevPlanner - personal planning and estimating tool
Surfulater - Saves web info (By JOS regular)

[DllImport(@Runtime)] -- Reflection
CodeProject - Late binding on native DLLs with C# - (Assembly language)
codeguru - Late Binding and On-the-Fly Code Generation Using Reflection in C#

Call and Debug a C++ DLL in C#
c# include c++ and debugging
debugging a C++ dll in a c# program
Debugging Win32 dll
Problems building C#, C++ solution in VS .NET

VS .NET XSLT Transforms One Two
Open Source C# Grid Control - CodeProject - SourceGrid Site
LLBLGen Pro -- O/R mapper -- JOS Recco

Diagramming for dummies - How to build a diagramming library from scratch
On tree diagrams and XML - A control to edit tree structures
The Netron Project - Graph library
Graphviz - Graph Visualization Software
VG.net - Animated Vector Graphics ($)

madgeek SharpToolbox - .NET Stuff

Piccolo Toolkit - Structured 2D Graphics Framework (Free)

JOS - Norton Ghost (Recommended alternatives)
JOS - Business Logic in ASP.NET

VS Errors

Visual Studio .NET help - Error 1706

Anti-Porn

HOSTS Files
Richard the Lion Hearted
HOSTS File Manger
MVPS HOSTS

C# / VB .NET / VS .NET Stuff

Blah blah blah
Articles
COM Interop
Understanding Classic COM Interoperability With .NET Applications
How to create a DLL library in C and then use it with C#
COM Interoperability in .NET Framework: Part I
Reusing Legacy DLLs in C#

C# and .NET articles and links (Reading binary data, Obfuscation, etc.)

Fighting the software pirates

Delegates and Events

XML/XSLT
Saving Master-Details form using XML
Read/Write XML files, Config files, INI files, or the Registry
The App. Automation Layer - Using XML to generate Menus (Links to other XML stuff)
Utilize Internet Explorer to display reports using XML and XSL from a Windows application
Automate key sequences for repetitive tasks, reference XML data

Converting Hexadecimal String to/from Byte Array in C#
Old Fashioned Analog Meter Control
Clipboard handling with .NET
Dumping is easy
Adding tray icons and context menus
Base64 Encoder/Decoder in C#
Most Recently Used (MRU) Menu class in C#
Masks and flags using bit fields in .NET
StopWatch with digital display
Errors in XML Log with C#/.NET
A Comprehensive Logging Package for .NET

Object Serialization using C#
A simple but handy utility for serializing and de-serializing various data
Persist Window State Component
Custom application configuration. [With Editor Demo]
An extension for a Configuration Settings class in .NET
Read/Write XML files, Config files, INI files, or the Registry

Advanced Unit Testing, Part I - Overview (Big article)
Advanced Unit Testing

Article Zero: Building a UI Platform
Declarative Programming--Unifying Form And Web Development
The Application Automation Layer - Using XML to generate Menus
Ripping Data on the Web
XML Finite State Machine in C#
ASN.1 Editor
Minesweeper, Behind the scenes

Add Ins
R# for C# $149, $99 until April 5, 2005.
Visual Assist X $99 C#, VB, C/C++

Blah blah blah

XML (& .NET XML)

Some Topic
blah blah blah

.NET
MVP XML Library

Tools
XMLFox -- Free XML Editor (& Tutorials)

Digital Signatures
Google "XML digital signature MSDN"
- MSDN: Understanding XML Digital Signature
- CodeProject: Using XML Digital Signatures for Application Licensing

SQL Stuff

Joe Celko

Colm O'Connor -- Preventing SQL Injection Attacks
Coding Horror -- Give me parameterized SQL, or give me death
SQL Injection Attacks by Example

Frans Bouma's blog -- Stored procedures are bad, m'kay?

JOS "My Posts"

New Topics
Internet-Based Version Control Service

Replies
vc for non-engineers (50,51)

UML Tools -- True or False?

C++

Online Books
C++ In Action Industrial-Strength Programming Techniques

Newsgroup / Forum Links
blah blah

Unit Testing
JOS: Easy to install Unit Testing for VC++?

Verify Data

Advanced XDE Tester topics: leveraging the power of regular expressions
MSDN: .NET Framework Regular Expressions
Code Project: The 30 Minute Regex Tutorial

Multiple Mice

Google -- Two mice in windows
Multiple Mice in Windows 2000 and Windows XP using CPNMouse
Multiple Mice in Windows XP using Raw Input
A MAME site For Improved Analog Input
Halfbakery -- Two-fisted mice
CPNMouse -- Multiple Mice in Windows
Multiple Mice with Windows Mame