Programming reference links

• See other software links.:

RFC's

• RFC 821, STD 10 for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
• RFC 822, STD 11 for email formatting
• RFC 868, STD 26 for time server protocol
• RFC 959 for File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• RFC 977 for Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
• RFC 1034, 1035 for Domain Name System (DNS)
• RFC 1049, 2045-9 for MIME format
• RFC 1288 for Finger Protocol
• RFC 1700 for assigned numbers
• RFC 1725, 1734, 1739, 1082 for Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3)
• RFC 1730, 1733, 1732, 1731, 1203, 1176 for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
• RFC 1866 for Hypertext Markup Language 2.0 (HTML)
• RFC 1920 for Internet official protocol standards
• RFC 1945 for Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.0 (HTTP)
• RFC 2068, 2616 for Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1 (HTTP)

DNS registration

• Whois: identify networks:   http://www.nsiregistry.com/ http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml     http://www.arin.net/whois/
• What is a WWW server running?:   http://www.netcraft.com/whats/
• Trace spammers: http://www.samspade.org/   http://www.cexx.org/  

Web standards

• W3C Technical Reports:   http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML:   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
• Lynx -- the simplest browser -- You should be able to read your web page with this. http://www.subir.com/lynx.html
• Network programming:   http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/
• Gopher: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com  

Formats

• Unicode:   http://www.unicode.org/

Compression

• Compression FAQ:   http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/preamble.html
• Compression pointers:   http://www.internz.com/compression-pointers.html
• Data compression library:   http://dogma.net/DataCompression/

Software development

• Continuous integration: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
• Extreme programming:   http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingRoadmap   http://www.xprogramming.com/   http://www.extremeprogramming.org/   http://computer.org/seweb/Dynabook
• What makes software beautiful?:   http://www.chc-3.com/pub/beautifulsoftware.htm
• Worse is better? http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

Patterns

• Pattern Repository:   http://c2.com/ppr/
• Antipatterns (face reality):   http://www.serve.com/hibc/
• Patterns book: http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf  
• Booch, Rumbaugh, and Jacobson's "Unified Model":   http://www.rational.com/
• comp.object:   news:comp.object

Utilities and code

• Numerical Recipes, the book: library.lanl.gov/numerical  
• Reference cards:   http://www.refcards.com/
• Freecode:   http://www.freecode.com/

My registrar and host

• Discount Domain Registry: www.discountdomainregistry.com  
• Skyweb.com:   http://skyweb.com/