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Contents 1 Account Management 1.1 Internal 1.2 External 2 Networking 3 Embedded Systems 3.1 Books 3.2 AVR Microcontrollers 3.2.1 I2C Bus 3.3 Reference Boards 4 KnowledgePro 5 Conferences 5.1 Embedded World 2006 6 Content Organization 6.1 Zope Related 7 Programming 7.1 Testing and Debugging 7.2 Windows CE 7.3 Linux 7.4 .NET 7.4.1 VSTO (VS Tools for Office) 7.4.2 WebBrowser Control 7.4.3 Cryptography 7.5 C# 8 Operating Systems and Virtualization 9 System Administration 9.1 Windows 9.2 Microsoft SQL Server 9.3 Drivers 10 Debugging 11 Device Drivers 11.1 Windows 12 PowerPoint and Presentation Skills 13 Social/Inspirational/International 13.1 General 13.2 News 14 Technical Writing 14.1 XML Editors and convertors 15 Travel 15.1 Germany 15.2 Switzerland/France 15.2.1 Swiss Indian Restaurants 16 Aircrafts 16.1 Used Cessna Planes

Account Management

Internal

• DCube Webmin - user - adani
• dmr Webmin - user - admin
• DCube: phpMyAdmin - user - root
• Quest Admin - user: adani
• Merittrac
• YCMOU-KICIT Bugzilla Username: asang@kicit.com
• Quest Forums - user: admin

External

• DirectI portal for managing ksetindia, kicit, ycmou-cs and funducode. Username is kanetkar@dcubesoft.com
• OnlineNIC Homepage for reseller account. Username is 386717
• MVP Support page Username is asangdani@hotmail.com

Networking

• Wikipedia: ADSL Modem internals very nice diagram

Embedded Systems

• A nice course conducted by Pascal Stang @ standford university http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee281/
• What are ZIF Socket? - Zero Insertion Force Socket. Used widely to avoid having to apply force while inserting large pin-count IC's in it's socket.

Books

• The Art of Programming Embedded Systems by Jack G. Ganssle
• The Firmware Handbook by Jack G. Ganssle
• Analog Interfacing to Embedded Microprocessors: Real World Design by Stuart Ball. Recommended in good projects done at Stanford and Cornell University

AVR Microcontrollers

• Science Prog: Using EEMEM attribute with WinAVR (gcc)
• Pascal Stang's Robotics Laboratory at Santa Clara University. Also contains avrlib, proycon boards etc
• Having strings and pointers to strings in Flash using PROGMEM attribute
• Atmel: AVR application notes
• Atmel: AVR ISP Programmer Can be used to program any AVR chip by connecting this programmer as a bridge between your PC and kit

I2C Bus

Provides an affordable and "two-wire" way of connecting upto 112 devices on a slow speed serial bus. Later revisions allow higher speeds of data transfers. Address is assigned by I2C consortium (headed by Philips]. Widely used in connecting RTC chips, NVRAMS, slower ADC, DAC etc. to microcontrollers. Also used in televisions to control color, contrast, brightness etc.

• Wikipedia: I²C
• Philips: I²C Specification

Reference Boards

• Cirrus Logic EDB9302 (EP9302) - ARM920T based nice board (costs around 400 USD) for wide variety of applications. Supports WinCE and Linux.
• AMD Geode NX from LogicPD. Supports Windows XPe, Linux etc.
• Kwikbyte 9202 is 294$ Embedded Linux SBC based on ARM9 with BSP for eCos and Linux.
• ADS BitsyXb is 300$ WinCE SBC with Intel XScale PXA270, builtin LCD controller and more
• i-mate SP3 is 11,500 Rs. Windows Mobile 5.0 based smartphone available in India. MVPs can get it at this price until 6th August after registering at: https://indiamvp.team.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/Lists/Windows%20Mobile%20Offer%20for%20MVPs/AllItems.aspx

KnowledgePro

KnowledgePro allows us to make our content available online.

Conferences

Embedded World 2006

• Feb 14th 2006 - Embedded World 2006
• Blog: Jerry McGuire - Analog devices
• Quadros RTOS
• Hitex ARM MCU Development tools
• VaST Systems Technology
• Oki - ARM powered MCU
• Philips - ARM powered MCU
• Texas Instruments - Microcontrollers
• Atmel - AT91 Smart ARM based MCU
• Atmel - AVR32 (ARM Challenger)

Content Organization

• Microsoft eLearning Online Visual Studio 2005 offerings
• Sun: Java Technology
• My Google
• Intel
• Wikipedia: Comparison of various ASP/PHP CMS
• Typo3 (PHP/MySQL)
• eZ (PHP/MySQL)

Zope Related

• Devshed: Zope With Apache
• KICIT: Zope + Plone

Programming

• Windows Installer 3.0 Redistributable
• Windows: Anti Debugging protection: PE Protector
• Eric Raymond: How to ask smart questions

Testing and Debugging

• OllyDbg: Best assembly level debugger for windows binary code analysis
• Nunit: Unit Testing framework for .NET
• Zanebug: Integration of NUnit in Visual Studio 2005

Windows CE

• VS2005: Connect to Windows CE Device Without ActiveSync
• Windows CE Real-time Infocenter
• WinCE Base Team Blog
• Microsoft: Academic Alliance courses and kits for Windows CE Learning
• Phidgets: Easy to use USB Interfaces - for hardware hobbyists
• Book: Building Powerful Platforms with Windows CE by James Y. Wilson, Aspi Havewala
• YAFFS: Yet Another Flash File System - A flash filesystem for Linux, WinCE, pSOS etc.
• Technet: WinCE Flash Filesystem Architecture

Linux

• Linux Documentation Project - TLDP

.NET

• HOW TO: Access Serial and Parallel Ports by Using VB.NET
• VB - using Conditional Attribute
• Conditional Compilation (Visual Basic)
• ASP.NET official microsoft site
• .NET Multimedia tutorials
• Windows Media Player in .NET
• Microsoft Academic Alliance Resource Kit
• Refactoring in VB.NET 2005
• Sample.DotNet.Com Quickstart Very good start for variety of features in .NET 2.0 framework
• MSDN: Strong Naming Assemblies - Internals Explained
• Using XML Digital Signatures for Application Licensing

VSTO (VS Tools for Office)

• Understanding Office Object Model
• MSDN: VSTO Homepage
• Office Developer Center: VSTO Portal

WebBrowser Control

• WebBrowser Architecture for Internet Explorer
• [ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.KB.v10.en/enu_kbvbnetkb/vbnetkb/311284.htm Handle Document Events in a Visual Basic .NET Application]
• A synchronous OLE call made by the recipient of an inter-process/inter- thread SendMessage fails with RPC_E_CANTCALLOUT_ININPUTSYNCCALL(0x8001010D)

Cryptography

• [ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_fxsecurity/html/f96284bc-7b73-44b5-ac59-fac613ad09f8.htm Cryptography Overview]
• [ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_fxsecurity/html/0dbcbd8d-0dcf-40e9-9f0c-e3f162d35ccc.htm How to Store Assymetric keys in a key container]

C#

• [ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_csref/html/e1c4913b-74d0-421a-8a6d-c14b3f0e68fb.htm C# Conditional]

Operating Systems and Virtualization

• OpenSolaris
• Vmware - Virtualzation Platform
• Diane's Blog Vmware President Diane Greene, on future of virtualization technology
• Microsoft Virtual PC

System Administration

• Linux Firewall: Single script configuration
• Apache SSL - Generating self signed certificate
• Making ASP.NET projects work with SVN Otherwise .svn directory names don't work well with Visual Studio .NET 2003

Windows

• Microsoft: Password reset disk can be created for a specific PC and account on it. For this feature to work, a floppy drive must be present in the system.

Microsoft SQL Server

• SQL Server Authentication mode settings (2000 and 2005

Drivers

• DLink DWL 650+ Drivers
• Dlink 2100AP Access Point Support page

Debugging

• Browsercontrol Exception

Device Drivers

Windows

• Microsoft Support: Handling Irps (sync. and async) part 1
• Microsoft Support: Handling Irps (sync. and async) part 2
• Microsoft Support: Mapping NTSTATUS values to Win32 Error Codes
• Kernel Mode Driver Framework Introductory material
• Kernel Enhancements in Windows XP
• Windows XP Startup Process

PowerPoint and Presentation Skills

• Online Writing Lab at University of Purdue
• Microsoft WinHEC 2004
• Microsoft WinHEC 2005
• Indizine: Good PPT templates and backgrounds

Social/Inspirational/International

General

• Martin Luther King: I have a dream

News

• News from Google
• Fareed Zakaria - Newsweeks International Editor (Weekly Video Show)
• NPR: National Public Radio

Technical Writing

• PlainTrain: Plain language writing
• Linux Documetation Project (LDP) Author Guide
• Jave: ASCII diagram Creator
• Docbook: Authoring Guide

XML Editors and convertors

• Xeena: IBM Alphaworks
• XMLMind: Docbook capable XML editor
• XML to text and html convertor

Travel

Germany

• BBC: Languages
• BBC: German Steps
• BBC: German
• NurnBerg Weather
• World Cup Hockey: 2006

Switzerland/France

• Swiss Tours India
• Swiss Rail (SBB)
• Indian Restaurants worldwide search

Swiss Indian Restaurants

• Lucerne: Masala
• Lucerne: Taj Palace
• Lucerne: Ashoka
• Lucerne: Kanchi
• Lucerne: Tandoori Indian
• Interlaken: Spice Indian
• Interlaken: Welcome India

Aircrafts

Used Cessna Planes

• Cessna Aircraft Dealer Older models 20+ years old at US $78,500.00