This page defines some of the programming sites I use regularly.

SourceForge

A mainstay of the Open Source community. If you need sources or help you will probably be pointed here. All projects post their latest code, you can also retrieve previous versions.

Freshmeat

An alternative to SourceForge. Sourceforge is run by VA Linux organization and people wonder who owns the information on Sourceforge, and what happens if they need money, etc... Well what VA Linux was doing is taking their site and creating a commercially sellable version of it. Big Deal. People have to make money someway (btw this is why Red Hat is sometimes dissed in the open source community).
Anyway this site holds Open Source projects as well. If you go here and to Sourceforge you will be able to see the majority of the Open Source projects.
Both of these sites allows the Open Source developer to have their own web site, and these sites will link the project directories to the developer’s site. These sites provide a major service by providing a place where people can go to find the projects, without wading through 10,000 google pages.

WABA

This is an Open Source project which has ported a micro version of the Java Virtual Machine. You can’t use the Java classes, but some of those classes have been ported to this virtual machine. This VM is only @73k which is extremely tiny compared with anything else. There is also a SuperWABA VM which extends WABA to include more features, but at the cost of a bigger virtual machine. You can write you app once, and run it on: PalmOS 2.0+, Windows CE, MSDOS(being tested), RIM Blackberry (Not yet submitted), Newton, and a TI calculator. WABA is on sourceforge see above (SuperWABA is being setup), and has its own page.

Google

Search Engine. Yeah I know, but it seems to be more accurate, and in cases where I need more pages returned, it seems to be able to let me see more of the net.

Java at Sun

Excellent site for developers. Information is everywhere. Most cases should be able to be resolved by looking at the forum and reading the responses.

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