Readings on Information Technology []

Moved to the page http://3rdstage.wikia.com/wiki/Readings_on_Information_Technology in my wiki as of 20th Jul. 2012.

Computer Science/Programming

• Type System in Wikipedia

Tree

• Tree traversal in Wikipedia
• Tree traversal
• Java Data Structure: A Generic Tree
• vivin / tree
• vivin / GenericTree
• Problem with Generics and sub-typing in my generic Tree implementation
• Generic tree implementation in Java
• Binary Search Tree Implementation in Java
• API of javax.swing.tree.TreeModel
• API of javax.swing.tree.TreeNode
• API of javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel
• API of javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode

Java SE

• Java Platform Standard Edition 7 Documentation
• Java SE 6 Documentation
• JDK 5.0 Documentation

• Top 10 JavaCodeGeeks posts for 2010
• More Effective Java With Google's Joshua Bloch
• Dynamically change classpath at runtime
• Argue against Pair class
• JAR Manifest Specification
• Open Source Code Analyzers in Java
• Requirements for Writing Java API Specifications

Reflection

• Instantiating Objects Of Type Parameter Without Passing Class Literal To Instance

Generic

Concurrency

• Atomicity, Visibility and Ordering
• How Synchronization works in Java ? Example of synchronized block
• Concurrency series
• Java theory and practice: Introduction to nonblocking algorithms

Caching

• Cache Abstraction from reference documentation of Spring Framework 3.1
• Explanation for how to use Guava caches.

Java EE

• Java EE 6 Technologies
• Java EE 5 Technologies
• J2EE 1.4 Technologies

• Be careful with Singleton Session Bean (01/31/2010)
• J2EE Transaction Frameworks: Building the Framework (04/26/2001)

• J2EE Transaction Frameworks: Building the Framework
• Jetty 6 Documentation
• Jetty 7 Documentation
• Debugging with the Maven Jetty Plugin inside Eclipse
• OpenEjb, Jetty and Maven - Transaction Management
• OpenEjb - Embedded Configuration

Spring

• SpringSource : Documentation
• Spring Framework 3.1 Reference
• Spring Framework 3.1 API

• Distributed transactions in Spring, with and without XA
• XA transactions using Spring
• J2EE Without the Application Server
• Nested Property Placeholders in Spring Configuration
• Configuring Spring and JTA without full Java EE

AOP

• AspectJ Load-Time Weaving
• JBossAOP 1.3 Documentation

• aop.xml name and location?

Testing Frameworks

• Layout Pattern of Log4j
• JUnit 4 Vs TestNG – Comparison

Logging Frameworks

• Commons Logging FAQ
• When Static References to Log objects can be used
• Short introduction to log4j

Templating Frameworks

FreeMarker

• FreeMarker Manual
• FreeMarker Expressions

HTML

• W3C HTML Current Status
• HTML 4.01 Specification
• XHTML 1.0 Specification
• HTML5 Specification
• HTML 4 Reference at WDG
• HTML Tutorial at W3Schools
• HTML5 Tutorial at W3Schools
• HTTP Gallery

• Is it possible to change width of tab symbol in textarea?
• Why must we still close SCRIPT elements?

Named Entity

• HTML 4 Entities
• HTML ISO-8859-1 Reference
• HTML Symbol Entities Reference
• List of XML and HTML character entity references
• Character entity references in HTML 4 (in HTML 4.01 Specification)
• Named character references (in HTML5 Working Draft)

CSS

• W3C CSS Current Status
• CSS Guide at WDG
• CSS Tutorial at W3Schools
• CSS3 Tutorial at W3Schools
• CSS2 Selectors (at CSS2 specification)
• CSS Guide by Web Design Group

• Vendor-specific CSS Properties
• CSS Rounded Corners In All Browsers (With No Images)
• CSS combinator precedence?
• Writing efficient CSS for use in the Mozilla UI

JavaScript

• Google JavaScript Style Guide
• JavaScript Tutorial at W3Schools
• JavaScript at Mozilla Developer Network
• JavaScript Reference at Mozilla Developer Network
• Cool Javascripts
• Fastest Growing JavaScript Libraries

• How to insert <script> with Prototype?
• Multiline string literals in JavaScript
• Google Libraries API - Developer's Guide
• 16 Javascript Libraries for Visualizations
• 20 Best JavaScript Charting and Plotting Libraries
• 20 Fresh JavaScript Data Visualization Libraries
• Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript
• Memory Management in JavaScript

jQuery

• jQuery API
• jQuery Tutorial at W3Schools

• Essential Controls List
• 43 Essential Controls for Web Applications
• 20 Best jQuery Slideshow / Photo Gallery Plugins

jQuery Plugins

• jsTree
  a javascript based, cross browser tree component. It is packaged as a jQuery plugin.
• jQuery plugin: Treeview

• jQuery plugin: Validation

Raphael

• Raphael API

• An introduction to the Raphael JS library
• Building an interactive map with Raphael
• Raphaël Live
• Getting DOM object from Raphael element.

XML

• W3C XML Current Status
• XML 1.0 Specification
• XML 1.1 Specification
• Namespaces in XML 1.0 Specification
• Namespaces in XML 1.1 Specification
• XPath 1.0 Specification
• XPath 2.0 Specification

• XML Schemas: Best Practices
• What's the best way to version schemas?
• XML Schemas: Best Practices ? Versioning
• Hide (Localize) Versus Expose Namespaces

RELAX NG

• RELAX NG Compact Syntax
• RELAX NG Compact Syntax Tutorial

JSON

• Introducing JSON

• JSON Schema: specifying and validating JSON data structures
• Validating JSON with Schemas

Database

Sybase

• Documentations for Sybase ASE(Adaptive Server Enterprise) 15.5
• Adaptation Guide For Sybase ASE 15.5+
• Where to get a free copy of Sybase ASE
• Subquery restrictions of Sybase ASE 15.5

Informix

• Informix Developer Edition

HyperSQL (HSQLDB)

• HSQLDB 2.2 User Guide
• HyperSQL Utilities Guide

• API of org.hsqldb.server.Server class in HSQLDB 2.0

SQL

• Limiting result rows of SELECT (from Wikipedia)

Version Control

• Version Control with Subversion 1.8 (draft)
• Version Control with Subversion 1.6
• Version Control with Subversion 1.5
• Version Control with Subversion 1.4
• CVS v1.11.23 Official Manual
• CA SCM (Harvest) 12.1 Documentation

• Public/Project Versioning - Best Practices
• Working with conflicting changes
  'Override and Update' and 'Mark as Merged' in Eclipse's Team CVS plug-in are clearly explained with simple case.
• Using negative patterns for Subversion's svn:ignore property
• .scmignore file of Harvest
• Migrating Subversion Repository Data Elsewhere
• Subversion runtime configuration
• Best way to link Redmine issue to SVN revision

Version control policies sample

• M2E updatesite and gittags

Wiki

• MediaWiki
• Markdown
• Comparison of wiki hosting services

• Lightweight markup conversion using Eclipse WikiText.
  WikiText provides Ant tasks to convert markups to HTML, DocBook, Eclipse help or XSL-FO
• Restarting Redmine without restarting Apache
• Technical Writing in a Wiki – Single Source Publishing

Textile

• Official reference manual for Textile 2
• Online form for trying out Textile 2 syntax
• Original Textile
• Textile Reference
• Textile Reference Manual for RedCloth 4

UNIX, Linux

• POSIX.1-2008
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.3
• Fedora RPM Guide

• Cygwin User's Guide

Shell

• Ken Thompson's original documentation for the Unix shell
• This is an HTMLized version of Steve Bourne's original shell tutorial
• Comparison of command shells
• Bash Reference Manual
• Bash Guide for Beginners

• Bash: about .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, /etc/profile, etc/bash.bashrc and others
• Shell Expansions

AIX

• Virtualization Concepts
• AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications

AIX Commands

• oslevel
  Reports the latest installed level (technology level, maintenance level and service pack) of the system.
• lsdev
  Displays devices in the system and their characteristics.
• prtconf
  Displays system configuration information.
• lparstat
  Reports logical partition (LPAR) related information and statistics.
• no
  Manages network tuning parameters.

Software Testing

Code Analysis

• Is there a way to ignore a single FindBugs warning? - edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.SuppressWarnings

Splint

• Flags of Splint
• Win32 Installation of Splint
• Re: About splint in Windows
• Exact condition to exclude header file
  

  The standard behavior of Splint on encountering #include <X.h> is to search for a file named X .h on the include search path (set using –I) and then the system base include path (read from the include environment variable if set or using a default value, usually /usr/include). If X .h is the name of a header file in a loaded standard library and X .h is found in a directory that is a system directory (as set by the -sysdirs flag; the default is /usr/include), X .h will not be included if +skip-iso-headers or +skip-posix-headers (depending on whether X .h is an ISO or POSIX header file) is on (both are on by default). To force all headers to be included normally, use ‑skip-iso-headers.