Rick's Blog:   The personal blog of a long-time friend, this site chronicles his daily life and observations. Rick is an historian and an archealogist, with strong links to his Cherokee heritage.  Give him a read.

My Blog: Okay, while I'm plugging blogs, I guess I can plug my own. At this writing I haven't yet begun it, so who knows what I'll have to say.

Dr. Stephen Case:  A friend and fellow alumni of Nova Southeastern University, Steve now directs the Center for Pervasive Computing at Minnesota State University in Mankato.

Jack Ganssle's Site:  Jack Gannsle is an author, a magazine columnist, and a well-respect guru in the embedded world.  His site is filled with excellent content for programmers who dare to venture into the soul of the machine.

Dr. John Rushby's Site:  This guy is the expert on safety-critical systems.  His research is at the center of many NASA and FAA policy decisions.  If high-integrity is your bag; you'd do well to read some of his stuff.

Multi-Edit:  Among the best developer productivity tools is a top notch editor.  This is the one I have used for more than a decade.

Polyspace:  This software analysis suite finds all semantically unsound executions in C, C++, or Ada.  It's truly powerful.

PathMATE: This is a model-driven architecture suite for generating software applications from UML designs.  Current implementations require Rational Rose as a host application.

SPLint:  Secure Programming Lint.  A free software "lightweight formal analysis" tool for finding problems with C code.  Also performs more powerful checks when used Larch interface specifications.

Subversion:  A fantastic revision control package, designed to replace the venerable CVS.  It has several advantages over CVS.

Tortoise-SVN: This front-end for subversion makes it a dream.  This integrates with windows shell to make subversion revision control easy for anyone via the Windows Explorer. Suddenly I put virtually EVERY document I write in revision control.  I can look at every change to my rèsumè in the past 5 years. I STRONGLY recommend this tool together with subversion for ANY Windows user who writes documents and would like to the ability to revert and/or to track the documents' evolution!

TextbookRevolution: A site that offers ebooks for download, and also lists other sites that do the same.

FreeTechBooks.com: A collection of links to free, downloadable technical books.

IBM Alphaworks: Free first access to emerging technology from IBM.

FAA Consultants: Todd is a consulting DER, and has also developed a software suite for automating the DO-254 and DO-178B compliance process.

OOTIA Handbook: This is the FAA's Handbook of "Object Oriented Techniques in Aviation"

CiteSeer.IST: A search engine that searches through scientific papers and indexes citations, links to relevant work, etc.  A great research tool.

Google Scholar: A google search beta for scholarly works.

FactBites:  A search engine that attempts to create an encyclopedic entry from it's results.  Very interesting.

Computer Science Scholarly Societies:  This site attempts to maintain a list of all scholarly societies, and this page is the computer science section.  Their list is not comprehensive, but it is impressive.

ACM: The Association for Computing Machinery is the premier organization for computer scientists.

IEEE-CS: A close second to the ACM is the Computer Society of the IEEE.

ICCP: The Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals is dedicated to the advancement of software professions through its vendor-neutral certification programs.

WWISA: The World-Wide Institute of Software Architects is a professional association dedicated to the establishment and recognition of the profession of software architecture.

Traveler: Have a voice chat with a buddy while taking an animated walk through cyberspace.  This interesting application of 3D VRML technology, this program has been around for over 10 years; yet it still seems cutting edge.