We take traffic lights completely for granted not really ever acknowledging the safety, sanity and order they provide. Then again, it is a sign of their excellent design and reliability that we don't notice them any more than we need to. A source control system should be like that, and the great folks at the Subversion project have created such a tool. I have used Subversion for over two years, it is solid, and the people behind it truly care about their product.

The leading Distributed Version Control System (DVCS). It's almost too powerful...

Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997 by Jordan Russell, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability and has been downloaded by nearly 1 million people. For my needs I found commercial installers such as InstallShield daunting in both cost and complexity. Inno Setup is fast and easy to learn and is a truly high quality freeware tool.

There is no better tool for creating source code documentation. More than just a comment extraction tool, doxygen produces annotated formatted and colorized source code listings and class relationship diagrams. This is a serious tool for producing real developer documentation.

If you have ever encountered a file with an extension you have never before seen, visit this site and you will get chapter and verse on it. I would go so far as to say that if the extension is not listed on this site, delete the file, it's probably a virus :-)

Ever wonder what the exact spec is for a URL (RFC 2396) or what a MIME type is (RFC 2045). The answer to these questions is the "Request for Comment". There are literally thousands of these definitive documents covering a wide range of networking topics. Not only are these documents highly relevant to today's Internet but they form an historical log of the development of the Internet.