I have included this page as a sort of "site map". It contains all internal and external links referenced from this site.
General Programming Articles
| Article | Description |
|---|---|
| Mathematical Expression Parser | This describes the process of taking a general mathematical expression and programmatically parsing the expression to obtain an answer. The algorithm given in the article is extensible with your own ideas and is relatively simple. |
External General Programming Links
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| StackOverflow | An online programming Question and Answer site with less focus on community discussion (which happens more on the Meta site) and more focus on the actual answering. |
External C# Links
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Visual Studio Express | Microsoft provides "Express" editions of Visual Studio, which can be downloaded and used to create software free of charge. In addition to Visual C# Express, you get Visual Web Developer, VB.NET, C++ and SQL Express (via the Web Platform Installer). |
| Bona Fide OS Development | This is also an excellent resource for budding OS developers. There are many tutorials and articles, including some very good background info about boot loaders, protected mode and context switching. |
External OS Development Links
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| OSDev.org | In my opinion, this is the place to start if you are interested in Operating System Development (although being a mod, I may be biased!). The site is composed of two main components; the Wiki which should be viewed as the main resource and the forums, where an active community aims to expand on the wiki and answer specific queries. |
| Bona Fide OS Development | This is also an excellent resource for budding OS developers. There are many tutorials and articles, including some very good background info about boot loaders, protected mode and context switching. |
| James Molloy | The home of some very comprehensive kernel development tutorials along with links to the Pedigree hobby OS project. |
| Cygwin | If you are looking at developping an Operating System in Windows using GNU GCC as your compiler, I strongly suggest using Cygwin with a custom Cross-Compiler. Download and install Cygwin from here. |
CSS Articles
| Article | Description |
|---|---|
| Pure CSS Web Menu | It is fairly easy to use your favourite client-side language to create a dynamic menu for use on your web pages, but what if your users have web scripts disabled? This version uses pure CSS / HTML to create the same effect, so any standards-compliant browser should display your navigation menu in the same way. |
| My Custom Styles | Not really an article - I just use this page as a testbed to play around with site styles... |
PHP Articles
| Article | Description |
|---|---|
| W3C Auto Site Validation | When your site validates correctly using the W3C validation tool, you get code to place an image and link on your website which allows anyone to confirm that validation. This relies on your browser sending the "referrer" HTML header. This small PHP version of the W3C logo allows you to check any page even if the referrer header is not supported. |
External Web Development Links
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| W3CSchools.com | Whether you are looking to learn a web programming language or are looking for reference material about a specific web language, start here. Major sections on HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, ASP, PHP and SQL. |
| W3.org | The World Wide Web Consortium is responsible for developing web standards. The site is quite dry and some of the standards are particularly heavy, but it should be the ultimate reference site for current international web standards. |
| reCaptcha | reCaptcha is a validation system which helps to digitise old books! I have used it for the contact form on this site and all is working well so far. It uses a simple private/public key system for validating the web site. There us a fairly simple PHP example on the reCaptcha web site if you want to use it yourself. |
Sites I Own or Have Created
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Adam Jones | My day job is optometry. For information about this field or for a CV, have a look around! |
| JJ Consulting | This is a site that I have helped to get off the ground and may be of interested to anyone working in the Allied Health Professions. It may be fairly heavy going for anybody else! |
Free Games
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Warzone 2100 | An excellent modern, open source, real time strategy game. The in-game graphics, soundtrack and gameplay are better than a lot of commercial RTS's that I have played. |
| Command and Conquer / Red Alert / Tiberian Sun | Electronic Arts have released these "classic" versions of C&C as freeware - great news! I had C&C when it was originally released, and getting a version along with a patch to enable Windows XP+ compatibility is fantastic! |