Nick Sumner: Misc Links

Bugs

• Top 25 most dangerous errors
• Software-artifact Infrastructure Repository

Research + Life

• From Matt Might

  • Work-Life Balance
  • Peer Review
  • Illustrated guide to the Ph.D.

• From John Regehr * Advice for new professors

• The PhD Grind

Truth and Research

• Evaluate Collaboratory - informing computer scientists about practices pitfalls in proper evaluation
• Leprechauns of Software Engineering
• Citations & what we “know”
• The case for open computer programs
• The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe

Food

• Tastespotting
• Smitten Kitchen

LaTeX for writing papers

• LaTeX Wikibook

• Detexify - translate scribbles into TeX symbols

• Table Editor - generate LaTeX tables from formatted data

• TeXample - plenty of LaTeX examples

• TeX Pearls

• Online TeX editors

  • WriteLaTeX
  • ShareLaTeX

• latexdiff

Website Management

• Jekyll - blog aware website generation
• Liquid - template language for layout management

Charts & Diagrams

• Matplotlib
• Matplotlib2tikz
• Inkscape

Graphs

• Gephi
• Graphviz

Video Editing

• Kdenlive
• LiVES
• VirtualDub

Browsing

• Adblock
• Ghostery
• HTTPS Everywhere
• NoScript

Research(ish) Blogs

• Embedded in Academia
• It Will Never Work in Theory
• Lambda the Ultimate
• LLVM Project Blog
• Matt Might’s blog
• Software Engineering Radio
• TinyToCS
• Wadler’s Blog