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How Skype & Co. get round firewalls - heise Security - Know-how(7 views)

Peer-to-peer software applications are a network administrator's nightmare. In order to be able to exchange packets with their counterpart as directly as possible they use subtle tricks to punch holes in firewalls, which shouldn't actually be letting in packets from the outside world.

Learning by example: how bad code propagates(129 views)

A neat article demonstrating how bad code that gets published can spread and cause problems for more than just the original programmer. Good stuff.

Workrave(15 views)

Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).

.NET Programming Utilities

Helpful stuff for .NET app dev

log4net(14 views)

log4net is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets.

NUnit(11 views)

NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages.

Bug Tracking

Mantis Bug Tracker(124 views)

Mantis is a free popular web-based bugtracking system written in PHP.

C

How To Read C Declarations(72 views)

A pretty neat lesson on the right way to read variable declarations in C.

CVS

http://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/(15 views)

wincvs.org has been down for me -- this page actually works

http://www.cvsnt.com(14 views)

http://www.wincvs.org(13 views)

Flash Games Programming

Tutorials and general information

gotoAndPlay XML Sockets: The Basics of Multiplayer Games(13 views)

OutsideOfSociety(17 views)

A site devoted to game development in Macromedia Flash -- tilebased games in particular

Tile-based Games Programming Tutorial by "Tony"(25 views)

Fonts

Droid Sans(161 views)

An attractive sans serif monospaced TrueType font

Game Server Protocols

Kquery Forums -> Community -> Coding(14 views)

iPhone

Some iPhone coding resources I've run across

Amazon: Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX(161 views)

Squeegy recommended this book to get familiar with ObjC before diving into iPhone application development

Apple's iPhone Dev Center(124 views)

How-to's, videos, documentation. Everything you need to get started. All it really needs is a link to some Windows tools for this stuff. ;)

Object-Oriented Programming

Naming Classes - Do It Once And Do It Right(200 views)

A excellent article on Hacknot about naming your classes

Object-Oriented Concepts(10 views)

A good overview of object-oriented concepts.

Open Source 3D Engines

Passwords

What You Need To Know About Secure Password Schemes(53 views)

An extremely informative blog post about password schemes. If you've ever thought about storing passwords in an application, you should really read this article.

Regular Expressions

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/expresso.asp(14 views)

RegEx Library(18 views)

RegexBuddy(14 views)

$30 shareware, but after watching the videos it looks like it's worth it.

Regular-Expressions.info(14 views)

txt2re : headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator(131 views)

Enter a string, select the elements you want to find in the string and the site automatically generates code that uses regular expressions to find what you're after. This is one of the most awesome things I've ever found.

RSS

RSS 2.0 Specification(1 view)

Handy for those times when I'm creating my own feeds from scratch

Screensavers

Holistic Screensavers: Beginning to End(21 views)

Best practices for screensaver coding/distribution. This article is .NET friendly as well!

WaTor - An OpenGL based screensaver(12 views)

This article describes the implementation of an OpenGL screen saver based on a discrete simulation of predator-prey interaction. The simulation is called Wa-Tor. It was originally described by Alexander K. Dewdney in the Scientific American magazine. -- I thought this was interesting because it includes dialog code...

Source Control

Subversion In Fifteen Minutes(66 views)

Helpful information to help you get started with Subversion

Ugly Hacks

MS Word Spell Checker(20 views)

Use Word's spell checker in other apps. This DEFINES "Ugly Hack". ;)

VB .NET - Windows Services

Background processing using a .NET windows service(14 views)

A reusable service that does database work and sends e-mails. Very easy to understand code that actually DOES something

Xiangyang Liu's ServiceInstaller Utility(14 views)

A great utility for dealing with Windows Services.

VB.Net

AllAPI - API -> .Net conversion info(11 views)

The Code Project's Visual Basic .NET Articles(10 views)

Tons of articles with source code

Visual Basic

EDais(1 view)

Some neat VB6 grapihcs libraries. The multi-monitor class and drop shadow stuff is very interesting.

http://www.thescarms.com/VBasic/(16 views)

Cool Visual Basic code and info

HuntERR(15 views)

Pretty cool looking project error handler

Thomas Allin's Visual Basic Page(2 views)

Lots of interesting ActiveX controls here. A free property box control, transparent picturebox, etc.

VB 2 the MAX - File Bank(17 views)

Lots of interesting Visual Basic code and addins

Visual C++

C++ Language Tutorial(1 view)

How to Detect Memory Leaks within Visual C++(55 views)

This is a useful technique while developing any application that has a lot of memory allocations.

Windows

PJ Naughter's Home Page(18 views)

MFC/Winsock Programming