(Last updated: Feb 13, 2017)

Here's a list of links I use from time to time, and I hope such a compiled list could be helpful for visitors, students, and even active researchers as well. If you find any dead link, and/or interesting or useful webpage worth mentioning, comments are always welcome!

Mathematica
  • Jens Nockel's website (Jens @ U Oregon is a nice guy who is particularly good at solving graphics-related problems of Mathematica. His posts and profile can also be found on Mathematica Stack Exchange.)
  • Szabolcs's website (Szabolc @ U Notre Dame is also very good at solving Mathematica problems on Mathematica Stack Exchange. He is one of the authors of the MATLink package, which allows data to be transferred seamlessly between Matlab and Mathematica. His posts and profile can be found here.)
  • Mathematica Stack Exchange is a great place to find solutions to frequently met problems of Mathematica, and to ask/discuss Mathematica questions and issues.
  • Quantum Mathematica is a Mathematica package designed for symbolic calculation of quantum mechanics, quantum information processing and quantum computing. In my experience, however, this package is only computationally efficient when dealing with small systems; for a larger system like 10 spin-1/2, it is awfully slow...
  • SciDraw is a Mathematica package for preparing high-quality figures for publications (its predecessor is called LevelScheme). Mathematica is notorious for its inability to fine-tune figures to better quality, and this is by far the best and most general solution I am aware of to do such things.
LaTex
  • For physicists who want to add their Chinese/Japanese/Korean names to any APS journal publication but get stuck by the extremely user-unfriendly CJK package, I have written a blog post for you.
  • I found the Wikibooks on LaTeX is very well-written and organized. It is good for both LaTeX rookies as well as advanced users who sometimes need to look up something.
  • TeX Stack Exchange is again a good place to search for solutions.
  • Instead of searching the long table symbols-a4.pdf, Detexify provides an online hand-drawing tool to help users quickly find the Tex code of any symbol.
  • TeXcount is an extremely handy tool to do word counts for TeX documents, including the number of inline and displayed equations and so on.
Linux
  • 鳥哥的 Linux 私房菜 is my favorite website which is self-contained, but it is written in traditional Chinese
  • YoLinux is an very organized website (in English) for both Linux beginners and experts!
C/C++
  • C++ Super-FAQ
  • cplusplus.com includes a lot of details of C++, such as documents of the standard library. Its tutorial is also good and provides a minimum knowledge for understanding and writing in C++.
  • Lapack online documentation at Netlib.
  • GNU coding standards.
Python
Physics
Miscellaneous
  • This blog is great for vi/vim beginners! The cheat sheet at the end of the article is a particularly useful summary.
  • Microwave 101 is an excellent resource for scientists and engineers to look up microwave information.
  • I found the idea of Physics Tree is entertaining. Click here to see my branch.
  • Leo Fang's Newsroom (Leo Fang 的新聞台) is a Facebook fan page I and a few of my friends are running, in which we deliver our viewpoints for various public issues in Taiwan by sharing news, comments and blogs.
  • People who need to write proposals or papers in traditional Chinese can refer to this website, which translates a lot of terminologies in various subjects from English to Chinese.

(still under construction...)