Links

Useful for scientific and technical software development.

Principles and Ideas

Open Source Initiative
Reproducible Research

Kiss Principle
Read us on Software project process and tools
Pareto principle
: fix 20% of most reported bugs, 80% of errors/crashes eliminated
Mind Mapping : choose a tool or try Freemind(0.9.0 RC9) – recommended
Lambda the Ultimate : keep the best of company.

Numerical / Statistical

SciPy
Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
Wolfram|Alpha
Incanter (R like, Clojure based)
CTSU Oxford (Logrank test)
Numerical Recipes in C
Taygeta
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

GeoScientific

Visualisation for Geoscience (ppt file)
Python Frameworks for Geoscience Visualization and Analysis
GeoTIFF
HDF / netCDF
FITS
GeoTools
Madagascar
Earth Science Australia
OneGeology
Remote sensing tutorial (NASA)

Graphics / Imaging

Fundamentals of Image Processing
Java Media APIs ( Java Advanced Imaging , Java Image I/O , … )
Eumetsat
Web3D
WebGL
Netpbm
ImageJ

Programming

PyS60
Clojure
Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
Java instruction
Unix and cross-platform software (Freshmeat)
More Open Source Tools (Sourceforge)
Linux distrowatch
Java Source
PDF libraries
Forth primer

IDE / Editing

Eclipse
GNU Emacs

Middleware

JBoss Application server and family

Technical Management

Agile project management

Testing

V-Model
Canoo webtest

Operating systems and interop

UNIX (Open Group)
Linux Kernel
Ext2/3 from Windows (Read/Write)
Ubuntu
Fedora
Cooperative Linux
Cygwin
Minimalist GNU for Windows

Everyday Tools

OpenOffice
Gimp
Irfanview

Educational

Connexions

Database

Oracle 10g XE (or maybe 11 when it arrives)
Apache Derby