• Classical versus Quantum Computation lectures by John Baez and Derek WIse in the Fall of 2006 as part of a seminar on Quantum Gravity.
• Course notes for PHYS771 Quantum Computing Since Democritus", a course held in Fall 2006 by Scott Aarson at the University of Waterloo which uses The Emperor's New Mind as a textbook.
• RDF for the Rest of Us
• The Open University Knowledge Media Institute's code repository: http://kmi-forge.open.ac.uk
• Lisp for the Twenty-First Century A description of the origins of Qi, a Common Lisp package.
• Alan Crowe's explanation of CLOS long method combination
• Luís Oliveira has been good enough to port ABCL to CFFI using JNA. It would be good to look at how best to support JNA from ABCL, possibly by shadowing the necessary CFFI/JNA integration with a downloadable package.
• I really dislike the complexity introduced to Java builds by Maven although I acknowledge the contemporary need for something to manage distributed component dependencies. My strong dislike has come from problems encountered in developing complicated systems with many Mavenized components where the common usage of the "snapshot mechanism" leads to much confusion because builds become causally dependent on temporal occurrence. Apparently incrementing POM version numbers is just too onerous for developers. But if one needs a better reference than the online documentation—which is poor even by open source standards especially for a project as widely adopted as Maven—one might check out the free online book Maven: The complete reference