Coding

SVN

• ASU Web Community
• ASU submitted requests
• csrl.beanstalkapp.com SVN repository

GNU

• The Free Software Dictionary

GCC

• gcc warning options

Programming

IDE

Eclipse

• turn off syntax error checking as you type
• Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts
• Unlock file: <workspace>/.metadata/.lock

Java

• Sun Java tutorials

C

• > printf
• Preprocessor tricks and Macros
• > HP C, HP's book on the C language
• > The C Book
• C-FAQ.com
• The C Preprocessor from apple.com
• Linked Data Structures
• String handling
• >Digital Mars C resources
• Safe C coding tips, TÜV Rheinland Group

snippits

• Cstring to int: int n = atoi(StrInt);
• Return cursor to beginning of same line: printf("%d\r",number);

C++

• > Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ
• Creating persistent objects by writing variables and data to binary file
• cplusplus.com, C++ reference

SystemC

• Online reference, U Montreal

• Installation on Fedora 9:

-SystemC compiles with Fedora 9 version of gcc, but it's necessary to add the following include statements to this file: systemc-2.2.0/src/sysc/utils/sc_utils_ids.cpp as indicated here:

#include "string.h"

#include "cstdlib"

• A generic makefile for SystemC projects is here

• Installing older gcc in Fedora 9, gcc 4.x was not compatible witn SystemC release, the configuration error says gcc-3.2 is compatible, but I could only get yum to work with compat-gcc-34

• SystemC tutorial from Forte Design

• Black, David C and Donovan, Jack. SystemC: from the ground up. ebrary, Inc. 2004. Online through ASU library

• Müller, Wolfgang; Rosenstiel, Wolfgang; Ruf, Jürgen. SystemC: methodologies and applications . ebrary, Inc. 2003. Online through ASU library

• SystemC Tutorial, ASIC-World

• SystemC on Wikipedia

• SystemC.org search resources

Assembly

• > Assembly Primer for Hackers, video tutorials, also good gdb tutorial
• CBE Assembly Programming
• Agner.org, software optimization resources
• > Assembly programming tutorial
• Unix assembly programming
• Assembly programming tutor from U Akron
• List of assembly tutorials (Linux)

Excel (VBA)

• Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel Namespace

Scripting

CGI

• CGI Made Really Easy

PHP

• PHP Tutorial
• PHP vs. Pearl scripting
• Installing PHP on Windows
• PHP.net
• Installing Apache server on Windows
• Function for loading the contents of web pages into a variable
• Regular Expressions Quick Reference
• Quickreference

Python

• Python Documentation
• String manipulation
• IMAP Utility

Perl

• Perl documentation

Bash

• > GLOBIGNORE
• > Quality tutorial
• > Bash commands reference
• > Advanced Bash scripting guide
• > Handling strings, globbing
• > Handling strings
• wildcards
• file io

DOS

• Good short batch reference
• ICACLS [folder|file] /grane USER:(F) grant everyone full control permissions on folder or all subfolders starting at folder
• XCOPY [SOURCE] [DEST] /d/e/f/i/a /EXCLUDE:exclude.txt Search subfolders for *.jpg and copy files to C:\FOLDER\
• diruse /M /S /C /L /Q:500 /D /* c:\ Find folders larger then 500MB and write output to DIRUSE.LOG in diruse folder: c:\Program Files\Resource Kit
• Remotely waking Windows machine from sleep

Regular Expressions

• (^([^ ^\t^\n^/]+ +)+(.*) *\(.*\)[^\{]*\{[^\n]*\n) Finds a function declaration (eclipse find)
• <START>$1 trace\(" @ $3\\n"\); //MAB 22 SEP 08: Add trace print statements

<STOP> Use this to replace the function declaration adding a trace statement identifying the function (normally "trace" should be replaced with printf), in eclipse, the return character apparently needs to be copied and pasted into the replace field, \n does not seem to work)

Mark-up Languages

Wikimarkup

• Bavawiki tutorials

Dot

• DOT_language, Wikipedia
• The DOT language specification
• Available attributes

LaTeX

• Notes on widow and orphan control
• >Good LaTeX intro
• IEEETran Q&A
• Comprehensive list of symbols
• Equation/Math guide
• bibtex entry formats, djvuzone.org
• Latex Tips, Jakob Schiøtz
• "LaTeX for newbies"
• Tips and tricks for conference papers, wordpress.com
• University of Cambridge, bibiligraphies, how to put a bibliography at the end of each chapter
• reed.edu, documents, headers, footers, table of contents, splitting into multiple files etc.
• Math tricks, Drexel.edu
• Markus Neteler. Creating High Resolution PDF files for book production with Open Source tools
• LaTeX Primer
• Bibliographies with latex/bibtex
• Latex FAQ, MIT
• Getting to Grips With LaTeX
• Equations
• Generating eps files
• algorithmic package manual

Dissertation

• Style files from ASU Math Department

TeXnicCenter

• In order to embed Type I fonts and use letter format, these switches were added in [Build]->[Define Output Profiles]->[Postprocessor]->[DviPs], reference, embedding fonts reference:

--Pdownload35 -P cmz -t letter

Embedding Fonts

• Download Nimbus Fonts
• Setup pdf printer to embed fonts

Replacing commercial fonts (which don't get embedded into the pdf with open source tools), script:

# We go for replacing the wrong commercial font names with URW names, we also
# adapt some similar fonts names on the fly (extend for further font names): 

if [ "$1 " != " " ]
then
 TARGET=$1
 TARGET_TEMP=$TARGET".font.temp"
   echo
   echo "Executing font conversion $TARGET_STAGE_1 > $TARGET"
   cat ${TARGET} | \
   sed 's+Times-Bold+NimbusSanL-Bold+g' |\
   sed 's+Times-Italic+NimbusSanL-ReguItal+g' |\
   sed 's+Times-Roman+NimbusSanL-Regu+g' |\
   sed 's+Times+NimbusSanL-Regu+g' |\
   sed 's+Helvetica-BoldOblique+NimbusSanL-BoldItal+g' |\
   sed 's+Helvetica-Oblique+NimbusSanL-ReguItal+g' |\
   sed 's+Helvetica-Bold+NimbusSanL-Bold+g' |\
   sed 's+Helvetica-Bold-iso+NimbusSanL-Bold+g' |\
   sed 's+Helvetica+NimbusSanL-Regu+g' |\
   sed 's+Helvetica-iso+NimbusSanL-Regu+g' |\
   sed 's+Symbol+StandardSymL+g' \
   > ${TARGET_TEMP}
 mv $TARGET $TARGET".old"
 mv $TARGET_TEMP $TARGET
fi

HTML

• HTML 4.01/XHTML reference page
• Span formats (including mouse hover)
• HTML ASCII quick reference
• HTML URL encoding quick reference

Post Script

• Post Script FAQ

Portable Document Format (PDF)

• How to navigate backwards in Adobe Reader, [ALT]+[left arrow]

-"Back" and "Forward" buttons can also be added to the toolbar, under navigation, they are referred to as "previous view" and "next view"

Modeling

AMPL (Linear Programming)

• AMPL FAQ
• Robert Fourer, AMPL: "A Mathematical Programming Language"
• GLPsol command: glpsol --model example.txt --output results.txt
• CPLEX with AMPL Users Guide

VHDL

• VHDL Tutorial, UPenn

MATLAB

• MATLAB quick reference, Georgia Tech
• MATLAB functions

Interfaces

• List of articles on port programming

Windows

• Bring quicklaunch back to the taskbar

In General

• Magic Hex number: 0xDEADBEEF