LaTex Templates and Publisher Policies

• ACM Conferences
• IEEE
• Springer
• Publisher's copyright and archiving policies.
• UC eScholarship repository archive hints.

Mailing Lists

• DDLBETA: An invitation-only mailing list for discussions of text classification, text mining, and related issues.
• SIG-IRList: a moderated regular IR news source.
• DBWorld: mailing list intended for messages of interest to the database research community.
• KDNuggets: bi-weekly electronic newsletter focusing on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Software Documents and Manuals

• Version Control with Subversion
• GNU Octave documentation
• Links to open source mathematical programs
• Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO
• GNU Wget Manual: wget was part of my web crawler and gave me lots of pitfalls plus many nights of debugging.
• Documentation of Apache HTTP Server
• FreeBSD Handbook: FreeBSD is among the early IPv6 adopters. I use it to crawl IPv6 web sites.
• APT HOWTO: APT is the most rapid, practical, and efficient package management system, much better than RPM.
• Configuration of vsftpd: Probably the most secure and fastest FTP server for UNIX-like systems.
• Oracle Berkeley DB Documentation: Every time I need a lightweight built-in database support, I go to Berkeley DB.
• Gnuplot: Not So Frequently Asked Questions.
• Prof. Matloff's DDD tutorial: An introduction to the secret art of debugging. Shows you the basic principles, leading you step-by-step in applying those principles to debugging two sample programs.
• Libconfuse and libconfig: Libraries for parsing configuration files.
• NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

Programming Guides

• Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? .
• The C programming language, and answers to its exercises.
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming and Unix Interprocess Communication
• A Guide to Perl(in Chinese)
• Perl regular expressions: This page describes the syntax of regular expressions in Perl.
• Statistics with R
• Python Tutorial

Suggestion Collections

• The Elements of Style
• Writing with Sources
• Guide to grammar and writing
• Guide to Grammar and Style
• Report Dos and Don'ts
• Time Management Talk, by Randy Pausch.
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
• Useful Things to Know About Ph. D. Thesis Research
• The Ph.D experience, by Mihir Bellare.
• You and Your Research, Richard Hamming.

Crawlers

• Heritrix: A web crawler written in Java.
• Larbin: Another web crawler which is written in c.
• Sitemap: A crawling protocol observed by Google, Yahoo! and MSN goes beyond robots.txt.

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information." -- Oscar Wilde

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