====== Other Articles ======

  * Links to a number of free books can be found [[http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=9|here]].  O'Reilly also has a site, [[http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/O%27Reilly_Commons|O'Reilly Commons]], that has a number of their books in a wiki format.

===== Computer History =====

  * [[http://lowendmac.com/orchard/index.html|Tom Hormby's Orchard]] - Articles on the history of the people and decisions behind the evolution of the personal computer. 

===== General Programming =====

  * [[http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html|TIOBE Programming Community Index]] - Programming language's popularity index

===== Clouds =====

  * [[http://aws.amazon.com/|Amazon Web Services]]
  * [[http://aws.amazon.com/s3/|Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)]]
  * [[http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/|Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)]]
    * [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/elasticfox/|Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2]]
    * [[http://thediscoblog.com/2009/11/02/ec2-is-easier-than-you-think/|EC2 is easier than you think]]
    * [[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-javadev2-4/|Java development 2.0: Easy EC2]]\\ Summary:  Provisioning an EC2 instance for hosting a Java™ Web application is a snap. In this Java development 2.0 column, you'll quickly build a Web application that leverages Groovy, Spring, and Hibernate (via the Grails framework) and deploy it on an EC2 instance.

===== JIRA and Confluence =====

  * [[http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2009/04/confluence_and_jira_5_users_for_5.html|Confluence and JIRA - 5 users for $5]]
  * [[http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2009/04/setting_up_jira_and_confluence.html|Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes on EC2]]

===== Single Sign On =====

  * [[http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-4604&yr=2007&track=3|Fast and Free SSO: A Survey of Open-Source Solutions to Single Sign-on]] (JavaOne Presentation)

===== CSV Application Support =====

  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSV_application_support|CSV Application Support]] (Java APIs)

===== Development Topics =====

  * [[http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2009/03/20_percent_continuing.html|Atlassian's 20% Time now out of Beta]]