Programming links

Well overdue for a catchup post on the non-graphics programming side of things, so here we go:

• Ange Albertini put together a fantastic overview of the Windows Portable Executable (PE) file format. He also has a great page on x86 oddities.
• OS Dev has a short tutorial on writing an Operating System kernel in the D programming language
• Leo Meyerovich and Ari Rabkin have an amazing interactive visualization and comparison of different programming languages
• If you haven't visited Rosetta Code for a while there are now a very large comparison of programming tasks in multiple languages
  
• Google Blocky is a visual web-based programming language. Drag & drop function blocks together.
• LuaJIT is a just in time compiler for Lua.
• Lua Development Kit is a eclipse plugin to provide a Lua IDE.
• Microsoft have relased Roslyn compiler API letting you interact with the Microsoft compilers intermediary language.
• Marc Feeley wrote a one file tiny c compiler.
• Clang has a free Static Analyzer for C and Objective C programs. (has XCode support).
• Andy Wingo wrote an indepth post inspecting the Google V8 javascript optimizing compiler
• SLOCCount is a neat tool for calculating the number of Lines of Code in your project, and other metrics. Other great tools for software metrics and code counting are CCCC, CMT and the C metrics collection.
• LCOV is a graphical front-end for the gcov code coverage testing tool.
• Very Sleepy windows profiler v0.8 has been released.
• Lucas van Dijk has a short tutorial on threads with C++11
• The Google Chrome Framework is quite comprehensive and multiplatform.
• Folly (Facebook Open Source Library) provides a number of extensions over the STL and C++11.
• The POCO library provides a solid framework for applications with signal/slots, zip, cryptography, database, logging, networking, and multiprocessing functions. The basic and complete editions are free and open source, however the professional edition is commercial.
• Ian Boyd has a great post on Hasing functions. Murmur hash gives good results as it is fast to compute and results in very few collisions. (CRC32 provides less collisions though)
  
• Santhosh Kumar wrote an interesting post on exact string match using the Burrows Wheeler transform, which includes a good visual description of the BWT (used often for compression).
• John Cook has a small collection of random number generators for C++, C# and Python including gamma, Weibull, Chi-square, Student-t, Cauchy, etc, etc.
• miniz is a single file compression library for ZLIB, ZIP and PNG files.
• XZ Embedded is a small decompressor for the XZ file format for embedded platforms.
• μSynergy is a lightweight embedded client for Synergy (mouse sharing).
• Quinten Lansu wrote a fantastic tutorial on serialisation using Google's Protobuf
• Some nice examples of how to generate various google maps including geocodes, events, markers, routes, etc.
• Steve Hanov has a post on A/B testing.
• The Unity test framework for C is fairly easy to use.
• AlgoWiki has a nice collection of algorithms
• And finally, David Joyner, Minh Van Nguyen, and Nathann Cohen have released an free open source book on graph algorithms covering everyones favourites from Dijkstra and Floyd-Roy-Warshall to Huffman codes, Priority queues, and specific problems such as graph coloring and travelling salesman.