Reference Web Sites
February 11, 2003
Table of
Contents
Federal Government Information
Key Industry and International Standards
Management, Process Improvement, and Metrics
Program Management and Process Improvement
Process Capability Maturity Models
UML and Patterns Reference Books
Database, CASE, and ERP Vendors
Hardware and Software Resellers
Structured Documents (SGML and XML)
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Organization |
Description |
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Focuses on basic research and education in a wide range of sciences,
and helping to set research policy. |
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ACM – The Association for Computing Machinery |
Main research-oriented body for computer technology and
methodologies. |
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Organization for aerospace engineers, rocket and jet propulsion
scientists, etc. |
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Society for chemists and chemical engineers. |
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AOM - The Association of
Management |
Includes the International Association of Management |
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Main standards body for any kind of mechanical components. |
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Society for quality engineers and managers, including |
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A regional (Delaware valley) corporate networking
organization |
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HWG - The HTML Writers Guild |
Society for people who compose web pages. |
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Main standards body for everything electrical or computer-related. |
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Primary professional organization for software engineers,
other than the ACM. |
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IEEE-SA - IEEE
Standards Association |
To get involved in defining IEEE standards. |
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Society for systems engineering. |
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IOM – Institute of Medicine |
Congressional advisory board for medical issues. |
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Society for automated control systems and related instrumentation. |
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Society for explosives engineers – for mining, demolition,
manufacturing, etc. |
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ISOC - The Internet Society |
Focuses on policy, standards, and getting emerging countries on the
Internet. |
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Society for people who manage web pages. |
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Congressional advisory board for engineering issues |
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Congressional advisory board for scientific research |
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Originally for ordnance engineers when called the ADPA, has become a
defense industry advocacy group. |
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Supports and coordinates work by the IOM, NAE, and NAS. |
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Organization for registered professional engineers – mainly civil,
mechanical, etc. |
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Main standards body for any powered vehicle. |
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Society for physics, optics, and related fields. |
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Industry body for agreeing on Internet standards |
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WWISA – The Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, Inc. |
The first group specifically for software architects. |
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Certification |
Certifications
cover: |
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computer technology
(CompTIA) |
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Certified Software Development
Professional
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software developers (IEEE) |
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network design and
administration. |
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web development, security,
and administration. |
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website and software
development. |
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software development,
system or database |
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network administration
(NetWare). |
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database development and
administration. |
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project and program management. |
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quality engineer, auditor, manager, etc. (ASQ) |
Source |
Description |
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Summary data for every country and territory on Earth. More recent editions available from the GPO bookstore. |
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Downloadable from the National
Archives and Records Administration. ‘CFR’ as in ’14 CFR 68’ refers to
section 68 of title 14 in the CFR. |
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Rules for doing business with the government. |
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Yes, there were a few bulletin boards still around. Link
dead Feb 2003. |
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Languages and protocols which are approved for federal
use. |
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A federal web site search tool owned by the Dept of
Commerce and the NTIS. (predates firstgov.gov) |
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A great place to search only within Federal or State web sites. |
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General Accounting Office
(GAO) reports |
The GAO checks on all spending by Congress, so any Federal program
might come under their scrutiny. |
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Many handbooks and guides appear as ‘special reports’. |
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IT-specific reports |
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Print everything official, from comsumer publications to
statistical data. |
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Computer and Information Science publications |
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Publisher of technical reports from all over the
government. |
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Wide range of publications – metrics, process
improvement, quality, formal methods, etc. |
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Contract management wisdom from the Office of
Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) |
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OSD = Office of the Secretary of Defense |
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You want numbers? We got numbers! |
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The USC are all laws passed by the House of
Representatives. |
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US Federal Government
Standards and Regulatory Information Sites |
Source for downloading or ordering ANSI standards. |
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Combined web site for the The Data and Analysis
Center for Software (DACS) and the Defense Software Collaborators (DSC) |
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A program to exchange information about all life cycle
phases and aspects of research. |
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Guidelines
for Successful Acquisition and Management of Software Intensive Systems |
A big blue book capturing lessons learned by the Air Force. |
Source |
Description |
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A wide range of links for mil standards. |
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Links for CALS and Joint Technical Architecture (JTA)
standards. |
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Now called the AT&L Knowledge Sharing System (AKSS), is a major
collection of DOD and Military standards and handbooks, available on CD-ROM. |
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Trying to get the defense services to play nicely with
each other through the use of common standards. |
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Primary source for DOD directives, instructions, and
manuals. |
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The master index of Dept of Defense specs and standards. |
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DOD Single Stock Point
(DODSSP) |
Local (Philly) DOD publishing center; mostly refers to
DODISS and Assist. |
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More sources for defense standards, including DODSSP and
Assist links. |
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Index of Defense Supply Center
Columbus (DSCC) Mil Specs & Drawings |
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Picatinny Arsenal’s Quality Evaluation & Safety Team
standards, including drawing practices |
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From Navy Training Systems Division in Orlando, FL |
Organization |
Description |
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The US representative to ISO |
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Can download standards (for a fee). |
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ASSIST database of
military standards |
Can download any available DOD or MILitary standard, or
Data Item Descriptions (DID) for free. Requires free
registration, but well worth the effort. |
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Lots of good handbooks on the basic sciences, causal |
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Overview of the structure of the US air traffic control,
navigation, and air communication systems. |
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Commercial vendor of national and international
standards. Official retailer of industry, ISO and ANSI standards. |
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Government Electronics and Information
Technology Association (GEIA) |
GEIA helps the government develop technically sound policies.
Committees G-34 and G-47 are most helpful. GEIA is part of the EIA. |
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A page of links for various graphics formats and
standards. |
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Home of working groups for various computer technology
standards |
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Search engine for draft and approved IEEE standards. |
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(ISO isn’t an acronym – think
of Greek prefix for ‘one’.) |
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Can’t buy directly from ISO; see ANSI or Global for that. |
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A standard for engineering drawings. |
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National Computer Security Center (NCSC)
computer security guidelines |
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An ANSI affiliate offering ISO and non-ISO global standards |
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Famous (?) for the DO-178B standard (see below), the |
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Standard |
Description |
Source, Cost |
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ANSI/EIA 632-1998 |
Processes for Engineering a System |
Global, $136 |
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EIA/IS-731 |
Systems Engineering Capability Model and |
Free from here;
or |
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IEEE stds |
Software Engineering standards (1999) – updated Spring 2003 |
IEEE, $260 (4 volumes) |
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ISO 14000 |
Environmental Management (Compendium) |
Global, $235 |
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ISO 15288 2002 |
System Life Cycle Processes |
Global, $117 |
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ISO 9000:2000 |
Quality Management (Compendium) |
Global, $250 |
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ISO Handbook |
Statistical Methods for Quality Control |
Global, $365 (2 volumes) |
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ISO/IEC 12207:1995 |
Information Technology - Software Life Cycle Processes |
Part of IEEE Software Engineering set; |
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ISO/IEC TR |
Information technology - Software process assessment (SPICE model) |
Global, 8 parts totaling $852 |
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RTCA DO178 |
Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment
Certification |
Global, $180 |
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Plus all of the CMM types…
See also www.12207.com and www.15288.com |
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Description |
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Condensation of the 14 Points for Management by W. Edwards Deming |
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Project estimation tool |
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Navy SW
Engineering Program Office (SEPO) CMM documents |
Click on "Processes by CMM KPA for downloading". Great
templates for plans and procedures. |
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“A forum for the contribution and exchange of information concerning
software engineering improvement activities.” |
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Guide to key topics of software engineering |
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Great guidebooks on lessons learned for project, risk,
and configuration management, testing, etc. |
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The Air Force’s lead organization for capturing software
process improvement and systems engineering knowledge. |
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Discussion of software life cycle standards
(DOD-STD-2167a, MIL-STD-498, ISO 12207, etc.) |
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A government, industry, and academia partnership focusing
on systems engineering and software process improvement. |
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Model |
Description |
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A European software process maturity model, like the SEI
CMM. |
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FAA
Integrated CMM (FAA-iCMM) |
The first integrated CMM, simpler in structure than the
SEI CMMI. |
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Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) |
A national standard for accreditation of health care
facilities (hospitals, labs, nursing homes, etc.). |
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Process maturity standard for HMO's |
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Better known as the Malcolm Baldrige Award |
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A software research institute at Carnegie Mellon
University. |
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SEI Integrated CMM (CMMI) |
The dominant software development process model. |
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Get this! Or look for the
[PDF] link here. |
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Software Process
Improvement and Capability dEtermination (SPICE) |
Later became ISO 15504. This is a model for deciding whether your
process model is good. |
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PWC Summit [no hyperlink] |
The PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Summit-D methodology |
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A process model for the telecommunications industry, developed by
Bell Canada. |
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Site |
Description |
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Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a method of mapping
measurements to the business objectives they support. |
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PSM is a defense-sponsored organization devoted to
finding better ways of conducting and presenting project measurements. |
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A portion of the SEI devoted to measurement research.
Mentions the GQ(I)M report from 1996, and the statistical process control text
by Florac and Carlton. |
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How to test the correctness of statistical software, by
comparing results to known test cases. |
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A page of links identified by Clay Helberg, including
math software links. |
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Site |
Description |
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Real-time Programming |
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General Programming |
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Linux |
The Linux Documentation Project or here The Linux Kernel – where to find the latest
version Linux Online – a great general info page for
Linux SuSE – my favorite Linux
distribution vendor Linux Headquarters – Also mentions latest
code versions Linux Journal - magazine |
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Use Cases – Alistair Cockburn’s
definitive thoughts OO Numerics – scientific computing in
OO languages The Code Project – source code
samples Object Management Group – creators of UML and
CORBA UML – Home of the Unified Modeling Language,
including its standard UML Resource Center – at
Rational software Patterns Home Page - OO
programming patterns |
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SigAda – an ACM special interest group Software Engineering tools – several are Ada-based |
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Applying UML and Patterns: An
Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design,
Craig Larman, 2nd Ed., Hardcover, 656 pp. ISBN: 0130925691,
Prentice Hall PTR, July 2001
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The Unified Modeling Language User
Guide, Grady Booch, Jim Rumbaugh, Ivar
Jacobson, Paperback, 512 pp., ISBN: 0201571684, Addison-Wesley Longman,
Inc., October 1998
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UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the
Standard Object Modeling Language, Martin Fowler,
With Kendall Scott (Foreword by Grady Booch), Paperback, 2nd ed., 185 pp. ISBN:
020165783X, Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc., October 1999
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Design Patterns CD, Erich
Gamma et al, Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0201634988, 1997
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ISO/IEC 8652, "Information
Technology - Programming Languages - Ada," 1995.
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ISO/IEC 15291, "Information
Technology - Programming Languages - Ada Semantic Interface Specification
(ASIS)," 1999.
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ISO/IEC 18009 "Information
Technology - Programming Languages - Ada: Conformity Assessment of a Language
Processor," 1999
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Description |
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How to keep web pages from being IE- or
Netscape-specific. |
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Internationalization of the Internet. |
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They do research on new possible standards for use on the
Internet. |
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Frequently Asked Questions for newsgroups. |
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RFC = Request For Comments, some of which become standards for
Internet protocols. Or try this link. |
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There really is a government site to tell the time,
“time.gov”. |
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Navy site for official time. |
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Ad for book of the same name; has great examples of what
NOT to do. |
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Focus on WWW common issues. |
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Type |
Vendor |
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4th Dimension – powerful Mac and
PC-based relational database Computer Associates International Informix – data
management software InterSystems Corp. (Cache) |
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Computer Aided Software |
Excel Software (no, not Microsoft
Excel) Rational Software (Clearcase, Rose, Apex) Sterling Software (formerly Cayenne
Software, bought out by CA) True Software (Aide-de-Camp CM tool,
bought out by McCabe) Marcam – rapid prototyping
tools Metrowerks – Mac, PC, and
embedded programming |
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Computer Associates
International Datalogix – Datavision Geac – Canadian-based ERP solution J.D. Edwards – Customer Relations
Management Star Information Technology
– Onyx Tivoli – integrated system
management, now owned by IBM |
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Vendor |
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Dassault Systemes – Catia, SolidWorks Microstation – main competitor to
AutoCAD Visio (spiffy drawing
program, bought by Microsoft) |
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Description |
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Acrobat, Photoshop,
Illustrator, Premiere, etc. |
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WordPerfect, CorelDraw,
etc. |
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Notes, Domino, cc:Mail; (owned
by IBM) |
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Flash, Dreamweaver,
Fireworks, etc. |
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Windows,
Office, Project, Visio, Visual Studio, etc. |
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Norton utilities, Ghost,
Anti-Virus, SystemWorks, etc. |
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Site |
Description |
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MS Access books |
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Technical
books and software |
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Where to buy
COTS software components |
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Also Mac and Data Comm
Warehouses |
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General electronics, and
embedded programming tools |
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Search engine
for prices on PC parts |
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New and used servers and
workstations, and parts for them |
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Mostly focus
on government and academic sales |
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Store |
Description |
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Books, music, and other nouns |
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Various book clubs |
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Was devoured by Amazon |
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Online auction sites, good for finding used books |
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An independent bookstore |
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Inhaled by Barnes and Noble. |
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Publisher |
Description |
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Lists of publishers
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Two good sources of
publisher web sites |
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Now part of Elsevier Science. |
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Now part of
Kluwer Academic Publishers. |
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ISO 9000 books |
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Software
engineering and management |
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Computer
science, anyone? |
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IBM Redbook publications |
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Autodesk
publications, Westlaw, and many more. |
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Wide range of
science and education books |
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Health, math,
and computer science publications |
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IBM and web
marketing books |
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McGraw Hill Professional Bookstore |
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“Publications
in computer science, engineering, |
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Serve the
National Academies – the IOM, NAE, |
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Computer-related
technology books |
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Mostly
hardcore computer science, with some |
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Wide range of
topics – business, science, health, etc. |
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Business,
computers, and engineering publications |
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Publish free text
versions of classic books and |
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Business,
math, and mostly science publications |
Publication |
Description |
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SEI online publication. |
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Main publication of the
ACM. |
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Focus on process control |
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The Journal of Defense
Software Engineering. Free publication – many articles apply to any
software-related project |
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One of the better free
trade publications – good info on computer hardware and software
developments. |
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Publication of the IEEE
Computer Society’s software engineering community. |
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Main publication of the
IEEE. |
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A better IT
trade publication |
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Army metrics newsletter |
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Engineering
Design and Manufacturing focus. Use
Priority Code R600-8 |
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Site |
Description |
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A classic info
page for SGML and XML |
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Great places
to start for XML info |
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OASIS – Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards |
Define and
promote structured document standards |
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Link dead as
of Feb 2003 – look for revival. |
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PostScript file viewer –
can also use Adobe Acrobat. |
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Description |
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IEEE has a
special interest group devoted to the history of computing. |
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Page of links
for historic computers, especially Apple variants |
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In 204
different programming languages |
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In 487 different
programming languages |
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About 2350 of them! |
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Site and
Description |
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Music software (editing,
notation, recording, and education) |
Ars Nova – Practica Musica education program Bias – Peak
audio editing Cakewalk- SONAR and various
Loopy programs Coda –Finale notation SW Dolby – sound effects, surround sound EMagic –
Logic audio recording software MiBaC = “music instruction by a computer” Opcode – Steinberg –Cubase Syntrillium – Cool Edit |
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Digital music hardware |
Apogee – signal
processing, UV22 compression Boston Acoustics – speakers Carver – amps Cedar – audio restoration processors Cubase.com – chat about
Cubase Denon – receivers Digidesign – ProTools Echo – professional grade sound cards
and recording hardware Edirol – Roland’s
digital music hardware division Kurzweil
– digital pianos Midiman – MIDI interfaces; also
M-audio products MOTU – Mark of the Unicorn; Digital Performer PreSonus – audio processing, preamps, EQ Rane – pro audio gear (preamps,
etc.) Shure - mics |
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Music retail sales |
AudioMidi – educational pricing Mars Music – gone out of
business |
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Sheet music |
Sheet Music Plus – online retailer
of sheet music |
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Publications |
Computer Music – based in
the UK Harmony Central – lots of product
reviews Sound on Sound magazine |
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Site and
Description |
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Weather |
WPVI weather (channel 6) |
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Shareware |
Tucows (PC) Tucows (Mac) |
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Emergency Services |
FEMA - Community Emergency
Response Teams FCC – Amateur Radio
Service Red Cross – Camden County |