Geek Stuff

"There are two types of programming languages; the ones that people bitch about and the ones that no one uses." -Bjarne Stroustrup

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Andrew's Geeky Interests

• Formal language theory & parsing theory
• Compiler design theory, especially optimisation
  • Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
  • Modern Compiler Implementation
• Declarative programming languages
• Software engineering
• Graphics (especially 3D rendering)
  • Aqsis
  • Aqsis Renderer
  • The RenderMan Repository
  • Andrew's Own Geek Stuff: Renderman™ Shading Language Grammar for lex/yacc
  • Blue Moon Rendering Tools
  • comp.graphics.renderman (Usenet group)
  • The Reyes Image Rendering Architecture
  • The Noise Machine
  • Steve's Computer Graphics Index
  • Color Science
  • 3D Modelling and Animation Tutorials
  • Extreme Wave
  • journal of graphics tools (jgt)
  • Grafica Obscura
• Computational Linguistics
• Artificial Intelligence
  • CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository
• Quantum mechanics
• Mathematics, the more abstract the better
  • The Math Forum Internet Mathmatics Library
  • Geometry
  • Eric's Treasure Troves of Science
  • ABSTRACT ALGEBRA ON LINE: Contents
  • The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository

Geek Activities & Causes

• Advagato (where I keep a diary/journal)
• The Web Standards Project
• Linux Users of Victoria
• Softpanorama: (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society
• Electronic Frontiers Australia

Geek Entertainment

• Code of the Geeks
• User Friendly
• Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet
• Slashdot
• Segfault
• Kuro5hin: technology and culture, from the trenches
• Advogato
• Jargon File Resources
• The MIT Gallery of Hacks

General & Miscellaneous Computer Geekery

• Intel Secrets
• The Retrocomputing Museum
• The FreeBSD Diary
• Linux Documentation Project
• Debian/GNU Linux
• Operating Systems on the Web
• eg3.com: dsp, embedded, applied computing, system-on-a-chip, and more!

Computer Languages

• Mercury
• Haskell
• Functional Programming at Glasgow
• Java
• Java VM Specification
• Perl.com The Source for Perl
• The Perl Journal
• Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Internet & the World Wide Web

• The Construction Sign Museum
• Internet Engineering Taskforce
• W3 Consortium
• InterNIC
• AUNIC
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML): Working and Background Materials The XML Cover Pages
• Web Design Group
• Web Law FAQ
• Web pages that suck
• WebTechs
• Bobby
• SP

Geeks may also find things of interest on my obligatory links page.

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