Write-ups/Articles/Papers/
Poems/Songs/Books

 

Books

		The Graphics Programming Black Book http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gpbb/	Micheal Abrash
		Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters	Adam Barr http://www.proudlyserving.com/other.htm (I am mentioned on his blog (09.01.03) for mentioning him !) Kudos for joining MS again - hope you see this if you visit this page again.

Writings: OSI/FSF (Open Source Initiative /  Free Software Foundation)

		The Cathedral and the Bazaar	Eric S Raymond (co founder of OSI) http://www.catb.org/~esr/
		Eric S Raymond's writings http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/	ESR
		Halloween Documents (the annotated set)	OSI
		Halloween Documents: Microsoft response on authenticity	Microsoft
		The Philosophy of the GNU project	Free Software Foundation
		Let's Make Unix Not Suck	Miguel De Icaza (author of Gnome, Mono) Ximian/Novell
		Richard Mathew Stallman Homepage http://www.stallman.org/ Richard Stallman's 1983 biography (this biography was published in the first edition of "The Hacker's Dictionary".) I was built at a laboratory in Manhattan around 1953, and moved to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971. My hobbies include affection, international folk dance, flying, cooking, physics, recorder, puns, science fiction fandom, and programming; I magically get paid for doing the last one. About a year ago i split up with the PDP-10 computer to which i was married for ten years. We still love each other, but the world is taking us in different directions. For the moment I still live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, among our old memories. "Richard Stallman" is just my mundane name; you can call me "rms".	Richard Mathew Stallman  Founder of FSF/GNU
		The Art of Unix Programming http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/	Eric S Raymond (ESR)
		Basics of the Unix Philosophy http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html (excerpt from the Art of Unix programming) I would highly recommend reading this, for any programmer.	ESR

  The Commercial Software Model

		Commercial Software Model and sustainable innovation	Craig Mundie Microsoft Vice Persident
		Government Policy towards Open Source Software Chapter 5 : The Future of Software: Enabling the Marketplace to Decide	Bradford L. Smith Microsoft Vice Persident
		The Commercial Software Model	Craig Mundie Microsoft Vice Persident
		Basic Principles of Software Source Code Licensing	Microsoft
		Shared Source Programs  (worth a look)	Many authors, including Bradford L Smith and Lawrence Lessig
		Advice to Microsoft about Commodity software http://www.synthesist.net/writing/onleavingms.htm   This was written by Stutz, one of the original creators of the .Net CLR, Rotor and the Shared Source license, when he retired from MS.	David Stutz ex. CLR core programmer Microsoft

MS vs Sun - Java and the big fight :

		About Microsoft's "Delegates" http://java.sun.com/docs/white/delegates.html	Sun Microsystems
		"The Truth about Delegates" http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnarvj/html/msdn_deltruth.asp	Microsoft Corporation
		Anders Hejlsberg Tells How His Team Designed WFC http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnarvj/html/msdn_deltruth.asp	MSDN Interview

Languages - ML and variants

		OCaml http://www.ocaml.org/
		F# - .Net based ML/Caml variant http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.htm
		Standard ML of New Jersey  http://www.smlnj.org//
		Standard ML Programming in Standard ML http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/rwh/public/www/introsml/
		Fish :  FISh is a new array programming language... http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~cbj/FISh/

Languages - CLR extension

		Gyro - generics extension for the CLR/C# , works off the SSCLI Generics is an ongoing project http://research.microsoft.com/projects/clrgen/ http://research.microsoft.com/projects/clrgen/generics.pdf
		.Net IL extensions _ ILX  http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/ilx.htm http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/babel01.pdf
		DDL - Data Defintion Language (mine) http://ddl.sscli.net

 

Command Line goodies

		Win 2000 Command list	Microsoft

 

 

Life 

 

		Lord of the Rings http://members.fortunecity.com/gabriella66/lordofrings/12.html http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/redguard/636/lordofrings/songs.html All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.	J R R Tolkien
		The Art of War http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/thigpen/html/art_of_war.html	Sun Tsu
		Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance AN INQUIRY INTO VALUES   http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~ciochett/lit/zen.html	Robert M. Pirsig
		1984 http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/	George Orwell
		Animal Farm http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/animalfarm/	George Orwell

The Dignity Of A Great City

"For myself," said Faramir, "I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace: Minas Anor again as of old, full of light, high and fair, beautiful as a queen among other queens: not a mistress of many slaves, nay, not even a kind mistress of willing slaves. War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise."

- Faramir to Frodo Baggins
 

		The Mending Wall http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html	Robert Frost
		The times they are a-changin'. http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/times.html http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'.	Bob Dylan
		Mr. Tambourine Man http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tambourine.html http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand, Vanished from my hand, Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping. My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet, I have no one to meet And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.	Bob Dylan