Aaron Curley

Recommended Websites

• Homeschool Advantage for College – My mom wrote a pretty-awesome book about the importance of dual-enrollment in a homeschool education. If you’re a homeschooler, check out her site!
• Professor Kelly’s Home Page – The home page of a brilliant professor at MCCC. Has lots of good programming resources on it. You may also find his free EASy68K program very helpful for assembly language programming. Finally, I cannot highly enough recommend Professor Kelly’s recently-released textbook on programming DirectX games, Programming 2D Games.
• Professor Maxim’s Home Page – An excellent software engineering professor from University of Michigan – Dearborn. If you happen to be a CIS student at UM-Dearborn, be sure you get in with his classes!
• Professor Medjahed’s Home Page – Another good UM-Dearborn professor.
• Resurrection of Our Lord Roman Catholic Church – I am a member of this excellent parish.
• Knights of Columbus Council 14099 (Resurrection of Our Lord) – I am a member of this council.
• SANS Internet Storm Center – Don’t you think you should be aware of current Internet threats?

Must-Have Tools

• Boost Library – Fantastic C++ library! Large portions of this were used in the latest C++ 11 and C++ 14 standards. Long live C++!
• Sysinternals Tools – Process Explorer and Autoruns are absolute must-have tools. I could not live without them. All of the tools are completely free. In fact, Sysinternals was bought out by Microsoft a few years back, so even businesses can now use the tools without paying for them.
• Secunia Software Inspector – You may not know it, but there is a pretty good chance that you are running a lot of out-of-date software on your computer and don’t even know it. Out-of-date software has security holes. This must-visit site will scan your computer and tell you which software needs updating to make your computer 100% secure.
• Secunia Personal Software Inspector – If you’re a fan of the online Software Inspector, you can keep even better track of application security by installing this free app that monitors your computer for insecure software 24/7!
• BartPE – One of these bootable Windows XP CDs created by PE Builder will save you when you’re in a jam.
• Ultimate Boot CD for Windows – Uses BartPE to create a bootable Windows XP CD with ‘loads’ of plugins.
• DOSBox – DOSBox emulates a DOS environment running on old hardware. Perfect for playing your old games that broke when you moved to NT!
• Notepad++ – It’s Notepad++, need I say more? If you do ANY kind of advanced computer work, ditch the built-in Windows notepad and switch to Notepad++. You won’t regret it.
• wxWidgets Library – An interesting C++ library that implements GUI classes that can be compiled on multiple platforms. Thus, C++ apps written with wxWidgets can be written in a platform-neutral API.