SomerBits

Chuck Somerville's Home Page

Welcome to SomerBits - assorted bits of (usually) software-related information, hints, tips, trivia, files, and whatever else comes to mind.

The obligatory link to The Dilbert Zone

Many good resources on Programming in C from Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linköping University, Sweden.
Many free tutorials on C, C++, MFC, and other topics. from DevCentral.
Douglas C. Schmidt's articles from C++ Report magazine.
The C++ Virtual Library from the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany.

Cetus Links - over 18,000 Links on Objects & Components
UML Documentation
Object FAQ
OOA/OOD Textbook...
- Lea, Douglas (dl@g.oswego.edu). Object-Oriented System Development. The complete book online.

W3 Schools - Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free. May be the largest web developers site on the 'net.
Primers and more from HTML Goodies
HTML code tutorial
Home page of The World Wide Web Consortium
Webmaster Reference Library
The Web Developer's Virtual Library
HTMLjive Demo - HTML editor in Javascript... save this page to disk and you have your own editor. (Requires Netscape 2.0 or other Javascript-enabled browser.)
Tom Boutell's FAQs
The Common Gateway Interface
Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific Web includes many good links to HTML references and tips.
A free counter for hits to your web page.

Developer.com - resources for programmers. A part of the larger Earthweb collection of IT resources.
Netcraft - Lots of news, information, and resources about many aspects of the Internet. PC Magazine judged it one of the Top-101 web sites of 2003 (in the Computing Experts section).
Virtual Library - Software Engineering
Discussion of Function Points and Feature Points.
SunWorld Online Magazine is gone.
Coriolis Group Visual Developer Magazine is gone. ::sigh::
CMP Media - Publisher and conference promoter. (Was Miller Freeman.) Here's a list of software development related publications.
(Miller Freeman carries Dr. Dobb's, Software Development, and many more)
C/C++ Users Journal (Now merged with Dr. Dobb's)
Dr. Dobb's Journal
Microsoft Systems Journal is gone, but 1986-2000 back issues are online.
Software Development Magazine (Now merged with Dr. Dobb's)
Windows Developer's Journal (Now merged with Dr. Dobb's)
Unix Review is back. (Had changed to Performance Computing, but like Borland ... Inprise ... Borland, they figured out what sells.)
SysAdmin Magazine
AIXtra Magazine is gone.

NoteTab Light multi-file editor with killer macro tools and multi-file search-and-replace (great for HTML) by Eric G.V. Fookes, Switzerland.
EditPad Lite PostcardWare, fast, multi-file editor by Jan Goyvaerts, Belgium.
Programmer's File Editor powerful, multi-file, rules-customizable-by-language, VERY LARGE FILE (up to about 1.5 gigabyte) text editor by Alan Phillips, Lancaster University, England. Development is discontinued, but it's still available here.
Large Text File Viewer 4.1 from SwiftGear.com fast VERY LARGE FILE viewer (not an editor). Now my large text file viewer of choice. I have used it to view files as large as 2.4 gigabytes with no signs of running out of gas. Links are half-way down the left side of his home page.

A 32-bit Windows program I wrote to use the :CueCat scanner (still available from some electronic surplus dealers and on ebay) as a general-purpose bar code scanner and symbology-identifying tool. It requires an un-modified scanner and will not work with one which has been modified (hardware hacked) to display data un-encrypted. The hardware modifications remove the scanner's ability to return a code indicating which bar code symbology was scanned, which is an essential part of the functionality of this program. I believe it to be the most comprehensive of such programs with regard to usefulness as a general-purpose bar code scanner. It identifies (and in many cases formats for readability) 26 different bar code symbologies and variations, including all UPC/EAN/JAN supplemental bar codes. This is Version 1.1.21 (2007/05/31) and is placed in the Public Domain. See the readme.txt file for detailed information and a complete list of the bar code symbologies decoded. Get the program and VB6 project source files.

Fuji Publishing Group Cigar Page - Place for Cigars on the Internet. Cigars, Cigar Shops, FAQs, Clubs, and Pics
Famous Smoke Shop - my favorite Internet cigar store.
Cigarworld.com
F-117A Stealth Fighter at night, in a hangar, on display at an air show, mid-air refueling.
Eastman Kodak Company, Graphic Communications Group, Ink Jet Solutions (formerly Kodak Versamark, formerly Scitex Digital Printing), producers of Kodak Versamark printing systems - my employer.
Runtime Error 200 problem with programs written in Borland Pascal running on faster Pentium-class machines.

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