Resources for Computing, Research, and Information Retrieval

Awk

• The GNU Awk User's Guide. Reference for the Awk language.
• comp.lang.awk FAQ

Bash Shell

• GNU Bash shell reference
• Advanced BASH Scripting HOWTO

C

• A list of C standard library functions
• The C preprocessor

Databases

• MySQL Documentation from www.mysql.com

Information Retrieval

• SIGIR Information Server. Homepage of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval.
• Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Home Page. Homepage for the annual information retrieval conferences sponsored by NIST. Includes online proceedings, test collections together with queries and relevance judgements, and information about upcoming TREC conferences.
• Search Engine Watch. Includes articles about recent developments in commercial search engines. Also offers a great free newsletter.
• Glasgow IDOM - IR resources. Lots of resources, including IR systems and test collections.
• Information Retrieval Links. Anne Diekemar's list of IR resources.
• Open Directory - Computers: Software: Information Retrieval
• Portals, Search Engines, SEO, Internet Marketing - Traffick.com
• Search Engine Guide - Information on Search Engines and Search Engine Marketing

Latex

• natbib reference sheet
• natbib notes

News

• Google News Australia
• ABC News Online
• The Age
• Google News Germany
• BBC News, World Edition

PHP

• The online PHP Manual from www.php.net
• PHP-GTK: PHP-GTK Documentation
• Build Cross-Platform Windowed Apps with PHP

R

• My R page

Sed (Unix stream editor)

• Sed tutorial

Web

• XHTML Reference
• CSS (Stylesheet) Reference

Writing

• Macquarie Dictionary
• Marriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Foreign Phrases
• The Elements of Style