Software Development Resources

General Software Development:

Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs . Steve Maguire/ Microsoft Press/ 1993.
Code Complete. Steve McConnell / Microsoft Press / April 1993.
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software Erich Gamma,Richard Helm,John Vlissides,Ralph Johnson,Designed by Grady Booch / Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. / October 1994

Java:

Javasoft
Java Lobby
CJAN (in progress)

Perl:

CPAN
Books: 1 , 2 , 3

O'Caml:

Official O'Caml Site
The Caml Humps
O'Reilly Book
Jason Hickey Book

LaTex:

Why Use LaTex?
LaTex Introduction(s)
Biology BibTex and LaTex Style Sheets (and more!)
More BibTex resources
CTAN
Info about PDF and Tex and more info from the NSF -- how to make sure people on OTHER machines can read your PDF files!
Here is what I do: dvips -Ppdf -t letter -o filename.ps filename

If you are freaking out because you want to get your bibliography formatted for a particular journal, try looking for the journal's publisher in the TexLive CD, or equivalently the CTAN archive. (e.g. kluwer.bst which requires the Harvard kit from the BibTex resources above) Also, Email your editor; they are often quite flexible.

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