2008-09-25

Flashcard learning tools

http://www.opencards.info/

2008-09-24

SQL Structure Export/Import Tools

http://jailer.sourceforge.net/

http://www.liquibase.org/

http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/

2008-09-14

EV (Electric vehicles)

V is for Voltage
EcoModder

Manufacturers:

EVT America (range 30-45 miles, speed 45 mph,$2899)
Vectrix (range 45+ miles, speed 60 mph, $9395)
X-Treme (range 50 miles, speed 43 mph, $2499.00)
Zapino (range 30 mile, speed 30 mph, $3495)
FalconEV (range 25 miles, speed 33 mph, $2400+shipping)
e-max (European sales only)(this is the cautionary tale, predecessor went bankrupt, never fulfilling warranties)

Code search plugins for Eclipse

http://www.koders.com/downloads/IDEplugins/Eclipse/site.xml searches http://koders.com

http://merobase.com/updates searches http://merobase.com/ (login required)

Roll your own:

http://browsebyquery.sourceforge.net/eclipse-site/site.xml from http://browsebyquery.sourceforge.net/

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/

Without Eclipse plugin:

http://www.codase.com/
http://www.codefetch.com/
http://www.google.com/codesearch
http://www.google.com/codesearch/advanced_code_search
http://jsourcery.com/
http://www.krugle.org/
http://www.quickref.org/
http://labs.oreilly.com/code/ code from O'Reilly books
http://www.planet-source-code.com/
http://www.codeproject.com/ .Net only
http://www.ucodit.com/espviewer/

JavaDocs:

http://www.jdocs.com/


Code review

http://code.google.com/p/jupiter-eclipse-plugin/

2008-09-13

The Code Book by Simon Singh (2003)

This is a very nice introduction to cryptology for a "teen" version of the book, offering peeks into the various historical events affected by code making and breaking. Stories of Greek stenography, Mary Queen of the Scots, Enigma (and successful code breaking efforts by Polish and English scientists/military), Navajo "wind" talkers, discovery of the public-private key based RSA algorithm (and it's implementation in PGP and the political wrangling around it) offer a wide background and lots of historical lessons. In addition, the book also presents basic introduction to various ciphers and cipher breaking techniques, like frequency analysis.