Links - informationstorm.co.uk

General

http://www.deadbrain.co.uk //satirical news site

http://www.independent.co.uk //the independent

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html //Common errors in English

General computing

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html //FOLDOC, great computing dictionary.

http://www.freshnews.org //Amazingly useful news aggregation site, my first stop in the mornings.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ //satirical news site - "biting the hand that feeds IT"

Programming/Development

http://www.developers.net/ //developer's site, some good articles

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ //Big Blue's developer hub, lots of decent content.

http://www.devx.com/

http://www.devshed.com //Great site for server side scripting and web development, also has very active forums

http://www.w3schools.com //Has references and examples for things such as SVG, XML, HTML, CSS and SQL. Very useful.

http://www.codingstyle.com/

http://www.mindview.net //Bruce Eckel's site, with free programming e-books.

http://www.itlab.musc.edu/docs/perl_regexp/ //Perl Regexp crib-sheet.

Compsci

http://www.ddj.com/topics/algorithms/articles/ //Dr Dobb's Journal site, has free articles on Red-black and Ternary trees (reg required)

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ //I really don't think you could do compsci without referring to mathworld at some point...

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm //MIT's OpenCourseWare, can be very useful if the lecture course has notes online they're very good.

http://citeseer.com //Computing papers site.

http://www.itpapers.com //Another papers site.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/asa28/useful_compsci_research_links.htm //A page with a big list of links for researching in compsci

http://www.tcfb.com/freetechbooks/index.html //FreeTechbooks: Directory of free online technical books, about a hundred available.

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?QA //Big collection of free online books about Maths and Compsci, several hundred available.

Compsci - Cambridge Part IB

http://www.nist.gov/dads/ //Data structures and Algorithms dictionary, useful. Thanks to DanP.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/best-ideas/string-searching/ //DS&A: string searching. Again, thanks to DanP.

http://dogma.net/markn/articles/bwt/bwt.htm //DS&A: Burrows Wheeler. Thanks to DanP.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Teaching/2002/CompTheory/ //Alternative Computation Theory notes from when Andrew Pitts lectured the course

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Teaching/Lectures/founds-fp/Founds-FP.ps.gz //Some excellent notes from when Professor Larry Paulson lectured the Foundations of Functional Programming course. Some bits are no longer in the course but in general I find it is presented in a more helpful manner than Arthur Norman's notes.

Compsci - Cambridge Part II

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/NETWORKS/IPV6/sld001.htm //Quick intro to IPv6 (Digicomms)

Security

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14 //Ross Anderson's site, lots of links and content

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/tools_and_resources/hotlist/ //List of security resources

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25 //Markus Kuhn's site, lots of attacks.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks //Risks Digest

http://www.schneier.com //Bruce Schneier's site, be sure to read the monthly cryptogram

http://security.oreilly.com/ //Security section of the oreilly site

http://developers.slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=172 //Security section of slashdot.

http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ //Handbook of Applied Cryptography - Free online version.

http://www.schneier.com/biblio/ //Bibliography of cryptographic papers available online

http://www.securingjava.com/ //An entire book for free!

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