I have over 200 tabs open between three computers… the insanity must stop. Link dump to follow:
Software Engineering
- Road to Continuous Delivery – Great article covering the different stages development shops go though to get to continuous delivery. Provides a great starting checklist of what to work on while improving your software delivery process.
- Overview of Micro Services – Micro services have become massively popular with the advent of Node.js. Intro to the concepts are reasoning for using micro services.
- Continuous Code Coverage with GCC, Hudson, and Googletest– Part of continuous delivery is continuous testing of your code base.
- Trashing ChromeOS – Guide to building ATOM processor build-chain testing servers from Chromebooks.
- Don’t Be Afraid of Functional Programming – The parts of JavaScript I actually like are its functional programming capabilities (callbacks and first class functions baby.) OOP programmers get a little scared of things like Lisp, but they shouldn’t be.
- Tessel – A JavaScript compatible (via Node.js) microcontroller. Wow.. just wow.. Includes wifi built-in and shield/breakout board compatability through Node modules.
Source Code
- DevDocs – Seriously hell yeah! Online, simple, clean, extensive, software documentation for programming languages and libraries. Seriously, browser pin this now!
- Sourcegraph – Search tens of thousands of code examples.
- Explainshell – Type some bash in, it explains what it is and what it does. Think man pages for the internet age.
- LibCurl API Reference – Using Curls powerful web functionality inside of C.
Vim
- Smart Tabs – Tabs in the leading spaces, spaces for everything else. The way GOD intended code to be structured!
- 76 Vim Shortcuts – Some of these I already knew, but like all things Vim… there is always more to learn.
- Mapping Standard Shortcuts – Things like Ctrl + c for copy. I don’t actually remap my Vim shortcuts to match but I like the article because it explains what those shortcuts are used for by default.
- Cheat Sheet – My current favorite Vim cheat sheet. Simple and easy to search for things… and NO ads.
- Vim-Adventures – Learn Vim shortcuts while playing an online game.
- Exuberant CTags – You need more jumping around in your code. Make it easy to swtich between headers, declarations, and usage locations in your projects.
C Programming
- JANSSON – JSON in C. Seriously freaking awesome!
- Ncurses Programming in C – Another Linux Documentation Project about programming. Ncurses is a command line interface for gcc.
- Coding Unit, C Tutorial – Great introduction to C programming. Simple examples and be sure to check out the comments below each section.
- TutorialsPoint, The C – Another introductory guide to C development. Better as a reference guide that the one from Coding Unit.
- TDD in C – Love test driven development (not so much behavior driven development.) Simply way to due it in C without external dependencies. Here is a list of tools if you do want to use external libraries for TDD.
- Beginners Guide to Linkers – When compiling doesn’t kill you, the linker will.
- Going from C to Go – I really like Go, but am currently doing a fairly serious C project. Just in case I ever want to port it.
Terminal/Serial Programming
- Terminos – C serial interface library for GCC. The link is to the manpage with function examples.
- Serial Programming – The Linux Documentation Project examples for serial programming in C. Also look at the debugging section.
- QTSerialPort – The Qt Library for Serial port communications. Qt is easily the best C++ code library in existence. While most people think of Qt only when coding GUI applications; its libraries are extensive enough to use for ANY application… even from the command line.
- Stackoverflow Serial Examples in C – Couple good examples and they got me some of my first working C Serial code.
- RS-232 Library – Works on both Linux and Windows.
- Serial Programming in Linux – Wikibooks book style tutorial on serial programming in Linux. Here is the specific section on Terminos.
- WiringPi – Serial programming interface on the RaspberryPi. Very nice if you are using the Pi breakout pins.
- Serial Example – Another quick example by tty1.
Cloud/Web
- aws – The Amazon Web Service command line tool. One of the better reference pages I have seen on it.
- Web Graphs & Visualization – 30 tools for web based data visualization. Both Sas and Open Source tools listed.
- Let’s Make a Bubble Map – Thematic mapping. Includes a link to a D3 tutorial for creating bubble map.s
- Camlistore – A personnel, decentralized, non-heiarchy based storage system that can be synced between cloud, phone, computer, and anything you can think of.
- JSON Form Editor – Similar to a project I did myself a while back. Automatically create forms based on simple JSON structures. Makes it easy to to AJAX requests to build, populate, and check forms.
Cyber Security
- Hacking Home Routers as Anonymous Proxies – Great tutorial the covers expoits, automation, using Shodan (a staple in my life now days), and scripting.
- Stanford Cryptography 101 – Probably the best online class covering the basics of cryptography.
- Matasano Crypto Challenges – Series of crypto programming challenges designed to have developers learn the basics of Cryptography.
- What actually Stores our data – READ THIS! It should seriously scare the shit out of you. Freedom almost always dies from within, usually under the guise of safety/security.
- Crypto by Shuffling a Desk – Overview of some basic cryptography principals demonstrated through shuffling a deck of cards.
- Everything You Need to Know about Crypto in 1 Hour – PDF presentation of some basic Cryptographic concepts and why they are easy to screw up.
- Recover files with Grep – Grep can grep anything… even things that are supposed to be deleted. Great example of the low level power of the Unix tool set.
SSH
- Rsync & SSH – Combining two of the most powerful software utilities in existence to make backups.
- StormSSH – I actually created a series of bash scripts to do SSH bookmarking. Storm improves on this idea by directly editing your ssh config file with the stored entries. Wish there wasn’t a Python dependency.
- SSH Kung Fu – Great tutorial covering some of the many of the one-off capabilities of SSH like remote folder mounting, port forwarding, and connection sharing.
- Simplify With SSH Config – Good overview of some SSH configuration and setup options. Plays well along side the SSH Kung Fu link above.
- Autocomplete Hostnames – Process your hosts file under /etc/ as well as your config files for autocomplete. I used my hosts file as a blacklist so this doesn’t work as well for me but the information was useful for the SSH bookmark system I made.
- Commandline Fu SSH Autocomplete – A few ways to populate the autocomplete functionality for SSH.
Bash
- Better Bash – Simple suggestions on making better bash scripts.
- Command Tips & Tricks — Nice overview of some tip using Bash, Vim, networking, and general command line productivity.
- Tmux Cheatsheet – If you know what tmux or screen are… then this is pretty helpful. Otherwise you need to find out what tmux is.
- Defensive Bash Programming – More and better ways to organize your bash programs.
- BashGuide – Better bash than the Gnu Bash guide… or at least some people say so. Evidently it has fewer “bugs” in its code examples.
Linux Bluetooth
- Bluetooth on Fedora – A number of Bluetooth devices need re-pairing (or at least a user to be logged into the system) before they will connect after restart. This is particularly frustrating for Bluetooth mice and keyboards. Following the advice by the selected answer (as root0 solved the problem for me. This one was annoying and hard to find out.
- ThinkPad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard – Cannot wait until this keyboard driver is put in the mainline kernel so I don’t have to build it every time. This keyboard allows me to use the same keyboard when using my Carbon X1 or when at my desk.
Misc
- Clark DuVall – I don’t know who the guy it, but he has the most freaking amazing website I have ever seen! Command-line junkie heaven.
- Bluetooth Deadbolt – Something to keep my from having to carry another key? Plus it lights up!
- LibreOffice & Google Docs – Open, edit, and save/upload Google Docs directly in Open/Libre Office. Also has support for WebDAV.
- Switching from Photoshop to Gimp – List of modifications to make the Gimp feel more natural for Photoshop users.
- Industrial Strength Bubbles – Make person sized bubbles that last for several minutes. I know what the kids and I are doing this weekend.
- Open Energy Monitoring – Open source automation and energy monitoring.
- Free your Android – As in Freedom, not beer. Useful list of Free Software version of popular software on Android.
- Shortcut Foo – Tutorials for quickly learning misc programming environment shortcuts.
