Here are a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• Helvetireader²

  Helvetireader is a hosted user stylesheet for Google Reader served via a user-script. It aims to make the interface a clean, minimal experience where you're not assaulted by an array of colours, social features and buttons (using Shortcuts instead). It's designed for people who just read the latest entries in expanded view without all the other gubbins.

• DotNetOpenAuth | C# Library for OpenID, OAuth and InfoCards

  Compiled library that adds support for your site visitors to login with their OpenIDs by just dropping an ASP.NET control onto your page. It’s that easy. An AJAX-style OpenID Selector control is also included for a slick, streamlined user experience.

• sstephenson/stitch - GitHub

  Develop and test your JavaScript applications as CommonJS modules in Node.js. Then Stitch them together to run in the browser.

• CommonJS: JavaScript Standard Library

  JavaScript is a powerful object oriented language with some of the fastest dynamic language interpreters around.

• JustDecompile - Free .NET Decompiling Tool

  JustDecompile is a new, free developer productivity tool designed to enable easy .NET assembly browsing and decompiling. JustDecompile lets you effortlessly explore and analyze compiled .NET assemblies, decompiling code with the simple click of a button.

• JustTrace - Memory and Performance Profiling by Telerik

  JustTrace is a new developer productivity tool, which enables you to profile .NET applications easier and faster than ever before. By quickly and effortlessly identifying disabling application bottlenecks, JustTrace helps you achieve optimal performance and memory usage for all of your .NET projects, from Silverlight to ASP.NET to WinForms.

• Echo - Build Highly Social Real-time Apps.

  Apps listed here are real-time, social and interoperable through open standards. They are designed to transform your site into a first class social experience.

• RealTidbits - Real Time Database Widgets

  Create exceptional experiences for your users and leverage the social activity occurring on your site with real-time database applications.

• OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software

  Open source software to build private and public clouds.

• Online Presentation Software | Free PowerPoint Online | Web Presentation | SlideRocket.

  SlideRocket is a powerful, unique, comprehensive presentation software solution that provides a full suite of features and capabilities to address all facets of the presentation lifecycle - from authoring, collaboration, and review and approval, through publishing, delivery, and management. SlideRocket provides users with all the tools they need to create and manage stunning online presentations, share them securely with people across the globe, and measure their effectiveness, in a single, fully-integrated package.

• monitter : real time, live twitter search and monitoring

  Monitter is a real time twitter search tool that enables you to monitor a set of keywords on twitter. It also allows you to narrow the search to a particular geographic location, allowing you to find out what’s going onin a particular part of the world.

• chartbeat - real-time website analytics and uptime monitoring

  Control the story, track a product launch, or exploit an opportunity as it happens. Our dashboard, iPhone app, and email & SMS alerts let you know the minute your traffic spikes, your servers crash, or your page slows to a crawl.

• jQuery Form Framework - jFormer

  jFormer is a form framework written on top of jQuery that allows you to quickly generate beautiful, standards compliant forms.

• Download details: Producer for PowerPoint

  Use Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint to capture and synchronize audio, video, slides, and images, then preview and publish a rich media presentation virtually anywhere for viewing in a Web browser.

• Download details: Psscor4 Managed-Code Debugging Extension for WinDbg

  Psscor4 can help you diagnose high-memory issues, high-CPU issues, crashes, hangs and many other problems that might occur in a .NET application; in scenarios involving live processes or dump files.If you are familiar with SOS.dll, the managed-debugging extension that ships with the .NET Framework, Psscor4.dll provides a superset of that functionality.

• Incredible StartPage - Productive Start Page for Chrome! - Google Chrome extension gallery

  A new, customizable start page for Chrome. Easily find your favorite bookmarks and closed tabs. Take notes as you browse.

• Serene

  Serene is a library for Windows Phone 7 that allows applications to self monitor usage and try to prompt good users to leave feedback on marketplace.

• Simple Service Bus

  Simple Service Bus is an asynchronous messaging framework that enables the rapid construction and customization of messaging endpoints, allowing services and applications to interact with one another across the network in a fault tolerant, robust environment that is less susceptible to network volatility than traditional synchronous approaches to distributed systems. SSB can be used as a message bus in an SOA, or simply as an integration tool enabling reliable cross process communication among distributed software components.

• SpecsFor - Yet Another BDD Framework For .NET

  SpecsFor is another Behavior-Driven Development framework that focuses on ease of use for *developers* by minimizing testing friction.

• Intel® Inspector XE Thread and Memory Checker - Intel® Software Network

  Intel® Inspector XE 2011 is a powerful and easy-to-use memory and threading error checking tool for C, C++, C# .NET, and Fortran developers designing serial and parallel applications on Windows*- and Linux*-based platforms.

• KeyFocus - KF Web Server - High performance HTTP Server

  KF Web Server is a free HTTP Server that can host an unlimited number of web sites. Its small size, low system requirements and easy administration make it the perfect choice for both professional and amateur web developers alike.

• mongrel2: mongrel2

  Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.

• Apache Thrift

  Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, Smalltalk, and OCaml.

• BSON - Binary JSON

  BSON [bee · sahn], short for Bin­ary JSON, is a bin­ary-en­coded seri­al­iz­a­tion of JSON-like doc­u­ments. Like JSON, BSON sup­ports the em­bed­ding of doc­u­ments and ar­rays with­in oth­er doc­u­ments and ar­rays.

• UltiDev Cassini 2.0 - Free Redistributable ASP.NET Web Server from UltiDev LLC

  UltiDev Cassini is a free, light-weight and redistributable web server that can host ASP.NET 3.5, 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1 applications and static HTML sites. Whenever your customers need an alternative to IIS — UltiDev Cassini web server is the answer.

• Ext.NET | Open-Source ASP.NET Web Components

  Ext.NET is an open source ASP.NET (WebForm + MVC) component framework integrating the cross-browser Sencha Ext JS JavaScript Library. Includes 100+ high performance controls for Data Grids, Trees, Menus, Forms, Advanced Layouts and AJAX communication.

• HAProxy - The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

  HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing.

• nginx

  nginx [engine x] is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

• nginn-messagebus - An application message bus implementation for .Net - Google Project Hosting

  NGinn Message Bus is a very simple ESB for .Net supporting publish-subscribe message distribution. It uses SQL server as message queuing mechanism - each message queue is stored in a separate table.

• bclcontrib-abstract - .Net Abstraction library for complex systems, with adaptor libraries for common implemetations. - Google Project Hosting"

  .Net Abstraction library for complex systems, with adaptor libraries for common implemetations.

• Shuttle Service Bus

  This project aims to provide a free open-source enterprise service bus.

• Subversion Hosting, Git Hosting, Project Management

  Unfuddle is a secure, hosted project management solution for software development teams.

• Yoono - Twitter Facebook MySpace LinkedIn Flickr - Share and Download Youtube videos

  Yoono is free software that allows you to connect and share with all your social networks and instant messaging services in one place.

• Welcome to Cloud Foundry

  The industry’s first open platform as a service. Run your Spring, Rails and Node.js applications. Deploy from your IDE or command line.

• Topshelf's Profile - GitHub

  An easy service hosting framework for building Windows services using .NET.

• Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!

  Oh Hello! Welcome to my guide to Erlang! This guide is intended to be read by beginners, but if you're average or somewhat advanced you can probably learn a few things too!

• Less is More - zeromq

  The socket library that acts as a concurrency framework.

• Ninite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once

  Just pick your apps and click Get Installer. Ninite does the rest — fully automatic.

• Sci2ools - Free Online Productivity Tools - Sciweavers

  Free online document processor and image converter toolbox.

• OpenVPN - Open Source VPN

  OpenVPN, our award-winning open source VPN product, has established itself as a de-facto standard in the open source networking space, with over 3 million downloads since inception.

• StyleCop - Download: 4.5 Preview

  This release includes the very latest StyleCop for ReSharper plugin and will automatically uninstall previous versions of StyleCop.

• Greenshot - a free and open source screenshot tool for productivity

  Being easy to understand and configurable, Greenshot is an efficient tool for project managers, software developers, technical writers, testers and anyone else creating screenshots.

• PNGGauntlet - PNG Compression Software | BenHollis.net

  PNGGauntlet is a .NET program that uses Ken Silverman's PNGOUT command line utility to optimize PNG files.

• was it up?

  We perform a HTTP HEAD request and check that the status code is 200 OK. If you provided a text to match we perform a GET request, check that the status code is 200 OK, and check that the text is present/not present in the returned HTTP body.

• QUnit

  QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use, JavaScript test suite. It's used by the jQuery project to test its code and plugins but is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code (and even capable of testing JavaScript code on the server-side).

Here are a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• EventStore

  The EventStore is a persistence library used to abstract different storage implementations when using event sourcing as storage mechanism. Event sourcing is most closely associated with a concept known as CQRS.

• QuickTime Alternative (QT Lite) 4.1.0

  QT Lite is a lightweight version of QuickTime. It contains only the essential components that are required for viewing QuickTime content in your favorite browser.

• HTML5 Readiness

  HTML5 Readiness now shows how HTML5 support has evolved since 2008. Click away to see the spurt of growth in 2010!

• CSS3 Buttons

  CSS3 Buttons is a simple framework for creating good-looking GitHub style button links.

• jquery.domsearch

  It lets you search within an element (e.g.: a table or a list), narrowing down the inner elements using LiquidMetal, which is way better than whatever else you could come up with.

• Orbit Downloader: the ultra file & social media (YouTube etc..) download manager

  Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation web (web2.0) downloading, such as video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare, support RTMP.

• Using OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs - Authentication and Authorization for Google APIs - Google Code

  Google supports a recent draft of the OAuth 2.0 protocol with bearer tokens for authorizing access to private user data. The spec is close to settling down, and we intend to update our code to match the final OAuth 2.0 and bearer token standards.

• Official Google Blog: Advanced sign-in security for your Google account

  2-step verification requires two independent factors for authentication, much like you might see on your banking website: your password, plus a code obtained using your phone.

• Amplify - A Component Library for jQuery

  Amplify is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Amplify's goal is to simplify all forms of data handling by providing a unified API for various data sources.

• Easy WebSocket - a WebSocket client to broadcast messages to webpages

  EasyWebSocket is simple websockets broadcasting. It is perfect for a quick prototype.. getting it going quick. 90% this is all you need if you're doing websocket something.

• flensed :: flXHR means Easy Cross-Domain Ajax

  flXHR [flek's?r],(flex-er) is a *client-based* cross-browser, XHR-compatible tool for cross-domain Ajax (Flash) communication.

• Zero Base-Overhead Data-Race Detection - Microsoft Research

  This tool finds data races in multithreaded code. It uses a combination of code and data break points to find data races effectively with little or no runtime overhead.

• The Book Depository

  Free shipping worldwide on all our books.

• CQRS-FAQ - home

  Welcome, this is a place to collect frequently asked questions, and hopefully some answers, about Command Query Responsibility Segregation.

• WCF Binding Converter

  BindingBox is an online application that converts WCF bindings to a customBinding configuration.

• NoScript - JavaScript/Java/Flash blocker for a safer Firefox experience! - what is it? - InformAction

  The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java and Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice.

• Readability

  Readability is a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view. No matter where you are or what device you use, your reading will be there.

• Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

  We know that web developers are spending too much time supporting Internet Explorer 6. We understand, and we’re here to help. Join us in moving Internet Explorer 6 users to a modern browser.

• Welcome to Solr

  Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.

• ILSpy

  ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler. Development started after Red Gate announced that the free version of .NET Reflector would cease to exist by end of February 2011.

• OpenWrap - Package Management for .NET

  OpenWrap lets you search for and consume packages in your projects, and resolve for you the various dependencies that each of those packages contain.

• JQuery IFrame Loader

  This is jQuery iFrame, a plugin to help you set iframe source and squirt content into iframes, by Michael Mahemoff, under MIT License.

• PowerConsole

  This extension provides an extensible VS command window with default PowerShell integration. You can now script Visual Studio interactively in PowerShell, and enjoy familiar VS style syntax coloring and tab-completion.

• PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension

  The PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension adds PowerShell IntelliSense support to Visual Studio.

• git-tfs

  git-tfs is a two-way bridge between TFS and git, similar to git-svn.

• About MyDreamCity.org | My Dream City

  MyDreamCity.org is a fun worldwide project. It encourages children without families and raises social awareness about their situation. Any city in the world can join and contribute!

• RStudio

  RStudio™ is a new integrated development environment (IDE) for R. RStudio combines an intuitive user interface with powerful coding tools to help you get the most out of R.

• Portable Library Tools CTP

  Portable Library Tools is a new Visual Studio add-in from Microsoft that enables you to create C# and Visual Basic libraries that run on a variety of .NET-based platforms without recompilation.

I can’t believe another month has past already. It really is time to get back to writing some proper blog posts. Anyway, here are a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• Oapt

  An NUnit addin for running one assert per test.

• Debug Analyzer.NET

  Debug Analyzer.NET is a debugging automation tool to analyze memory dumps using analysis plug-ins written in .NET!

• arbor.js

  Arbor is a graph visualization library built with web workers and jQuery.

• jLabel - A jQuery Label plugin by William Duffy

  jLabel is a jQuery plugin that formats text input fields with unobtrusive labels featuring interactive suggestions. This allows input fields to be labelled clearly and presented with minimal interface obstruction.

• CSS Reset.com - CSS Resets and Free CSS Tutorials

  All the most common CSS Reset scripts in one place, with complete documentation, guides and tutorials.

• jRating : Ajaxed star rating system with jQuery

  jRating is a very flexible jQuery plugin for quickly creating an Ajaxed star rating system. It is possible to configure every detail from" the number of the stars" to "if the stars can represent decimals or not".

• CLR Profiler for .NET Framework 4

  The CLR Profiler allows developers to see the allocation profile of their managed applications.

• Silverlight 4 Application Themes

  4 new application themes for Silverlight 4: JetPack, Accent Color, Windows 7 and Cosmopolitan. These themes can be used for the navigation template provided by the Silverlight 4 Tools installer or using the various resource dictionaries provided in this d

• JustMock Free Edition

  JustMock Free Edition is a developer productivity tool designed to make it easy to create mock objects. JustMock Free Edition cuts your development time and helps you create better unit tests without requiring you to change your code.

• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework

  The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is a free, centralized code sample library provided by the Microsoft Community team. Our goal is to provide typical code samples for all Microsoft development technologies.

• Rocket SVN for Microsoft Visual Studio: Subversion add-in for VS 2008/2010

  OnTime integration, no svn:ignore patterns, as easy to install as it is to use, keyboard friendly, and no more relying on TortoiseSVN. All these features come together in RocketSVN for Visual Studio. Not to mention it's 100% Free for Unlimited Users!

• AppHarbor

  We’re building af Git-enabled .NET Platform-as-a-Service. That means we’ll build, deploy and host your .NET websites for you. To get started all you have to do is to create an account and git push your code to AppHarbor.

• Elevate

  Elevate is an easy to pick up library containing things you wish were in the BCL. Use one component or many. Contribute your own utilities. Share your ideas with the community.

• HTML5Labs - Home

  The HTML5 Labs site is the place where Microsoft prototypes early and unstable web standard specifications from standards bodies such as the W3C.

• Whisper Systems

  Welcome to the public beta of the Whisper Systems mobile security suite for Android. We have two applications in the initial beta, RedPhone and TextSecure, which help restore your ability to conduct your personal and business communications privately.

• EasyHttp

  After writing smaller wrappers around WebRequest on a few occasions, I decided it’s time to formalize the wrapper. This has given way to EasyHttp.

• AnjLab Sql Profiler

  SQL Server Express Edition Profiler provides the most of functionality standard profiler does, such as choosing events to profile, setting filters, etc. By now there are no analogue free tools.

• PusherDotnet

  An implementation of the Pusher REST API in C#.

• Fizzler

  A .NET library to select items from a node tree based on a CSS selector. The default implementation is based on HTMLAgilityPack and selects from HTML documents.

• Jurassic - A Javascript Compiler for .NET

  Jurassic is an implementation of the ECMAScript language and runtime. It aims to provide the best performing and most standards-compliant implementation of JavaScript for .NET.

• Coroutine

  Coroutine makes writing asynchronous code in C# as easy and natural as writing synchronous code.

• Kayak, a C# HTTP server.

  Kayak is an asynchronous HTTP server written in C#. It has been designed to be easy to embed into a variety of applications. Kayak natively supports the OWIN 1.0 Draft specification.

• ReactiveUI

  This library is an exploration I've been working on for several weeks on combining WPF Model-View-ViewModel paradigm with the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx).

• Nancy

  Nancy is a lightweight web framework for the .Net platform, inspired by Sinatra. Nancy aims to deliver a low ceremony approach to building light, fast web applications.

• OWIN — Open Web Interface for .NET

  OWIN defines a standard interface between .NET web servers and web applications.

• grumpydev/TinyIoC - GitHub

  Welcome to TinyIoC - an easy to use, hassle free, Inversion of Control Container. TinyIoC has been designed to fulfil a single key requirement - to lower the "level of entry" for using an IoC container; both for small projects, and developers who are new

• Encog Java and DotNet Neural Network Framework | Heaton Research

  Encog is an advanced neural network and machine learning framework. Encog contains classes to create a wide variety of networks, as well as support classes to normalize and process data for these neural networks.

• Grammarly - English grammar checker, proofreader

  Grammarly is an automated proofreader and your personal grammar coach. Check your writing for grammar, punctuation, style and much more.

• SeeNowDo :: Digital Taskboards for Distributed Agile Teams

  SeeNowDo is a simple, flexible and free taskboard designed specifically to meet the needs of distributed Agile teams.

• Pivotal Tracker - Simple, Effective Agile Project Management

  Collaborative, lightweight project management tool, brought to you by the experts in agile software development.

• Banana Scrum - scrum tool for agile teams

  Banana Scrum is a very simple Scrum tool. Designed to help your team keep track of things, but never meant to replace your daily human interactions. A tool to know where you are, but not so complex as to blurr the picture.

• Kanbanize.com

  Kanbanize.com is a free web-based software tool that modernizes and builds on top of the well-known from Toyota's factories visualization method - kanban.

• Scrumy

  Scrumy is a project management tool loosely based off of Scrum.

• Semantic Versioning

  I call this system "Semantic Versioning." Under this scheme, version numbers and the way they change convey meaning about the underlying code and what has been modified from one version to the next.

• PowerDbg - Automated Debugging using WinDbg and PowerShell

  PowerDbg is a PowerShell library that enables you to easily create PowerShell scripts to automate a WinDbg / CDB debugging session. You can use PowerDbg for Kernel Mode or User Mode, Post-Mortem debugging or Live Debugging and for native or managed code.

• Google Public Policy Blog: Keep your opt-outs

  Today we’re making available Keep My Opt-Outs, which enables you to opt out permanently from ad tracking cookies. It’s available as an extension for download in Chrome.

Here are a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• Windows Phone Certificate Installer

  Helps install Trusted Root Certificates on Windows Phone 7 to enable SSL requests. Intended to allow developers to use localhost web servers during development without requiring the purchase of an SSL certificate.

• ahiguti/HandlerSocket-Plugin-for-MySQL - GitHub

  HandlerSocket is a NoSQL plugin for MySQL. It works as a daemon inside the mysqld process, accept tcp connections, and execute requests from clients. HandlerSocket does not support SQL queries. Instead, it supports simple CRUD operations on tables.

• Data types interoperability between .NET and Java

  This whitepaper is written based on an interoperability analysis carried out between .NET 4 and three major Java based platforms - IBM Web Sphere, Oracle WebLogic and Oracle Metro (referred as Java client/server systems hereinafter).

• Google URL Shortener API for .NET

  With Google URL Shortener API, you may shorten urls and get some analytics information about this. It's developed in C# 4.0 and VS2010.

• NoRM

  NoRM is a .Net library for connecting to the document-oriented database, MongoDB.

• FileDB - A C# database to store files

  FileDB is a free, fast, lightweight C# (v3.5) DLL project to store, retrieve and delete files using a single archive file as a container on disk. It's ideal for storing files (all kind, all sizes) without databases and keeping them organized on a single d

• DotNetZip Library

  DotNetZip is an easy-to-use, FAST, FREE class library and toolset for manipulating zip files or folders. Zip and Unzip is easy: with DotNetZip, .NET applications written in VB, C# - any .NET language - can easily create, read, extract, or update zip files

• Mobile Device Detection and Redirection

  51degrees.mobi Foundation is an ASP.NET open source module which detects mobile devices and browsers, enhancing the information available to ASP.NET. Mobile handsets can optionally be redirected to a home page designed for mobile phones.

• RazorEngine

  A templating engine built upon Microsoft's Razor parsing technology. The Razor Templating Engine allows you to use Razor syntax to build robust templates. Currently we have integrated the vanilla Html + Code support, but we hope to support other markup la

• TeamViewer - Free Remote Access and Remote Desktop Sharing over the Internet

  TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it.

• Options - NDesk

  NDesk.Options is a callback-based program option parser for C#.

• Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs

  Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It's lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use. And it just works.

• YoxView - jQuery image viewer plugin

  YoxView is a free Lightbox-type media and image viewer jQuery plugin. It's easy to use and feature-rich.

• endjin : open source : templify

  Every project starts the same way:you create a place to put solution artefacts,on one file system, on one computer.Templify helps you work smart, not hardby reducing repetition.

• Download details: Microsoft Mathematics 4.0

  Microsoft Mathematics provides a graphing calculator that plots in 2D and 3D, step-by-step equation solving, and useful tools to help students with math and science studies.

• Google URL Shortener API - Google Code

  The Google URL Shortener API allows you to develop applications that interface with this service. You can use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short URLs from your desktop, mobile, or web application.

• How 90's | How 90's Is Your Website?

  We are now in 2011 and yet many people have websites straight out of the 1990’s! Run your website through how90s and find out if your an offender, and just pray and hope you don’t make our infamous "League Of Shame".

• The Free Online OCR - Sciweavers

  i2OCR is a free online OCR that converts scanned documents, faxes, or screenshots into editable text. i2OCR supports several input image formats including (TIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PBM, PGM, PPM), which can be loaded from disk or URL.

• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Express

  IIS 7.5 Express is a simple and self-contained version of IIS 7.5 that is optimized for developers.

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Application Upgrader

  This standalone application upgrades ASP.NET MVC 2 applications to ASP.NET MVC 3. It works for both ASP.NET MVC 3 RC 2 and RTM. The tool only supports Visual Studio 2010 solutions and MVC 2 projects targeting .NET 4.

• COVERITLIVE.COM - Home

  CoveritLive is the world's best live event software, with advanced features to engage and excite your Readers! CoveritLive works seamlessly to provide instant and in-depth event coverage.

• blekko | slashtag search

  blekko is a better way to search the web by using slashtags. slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam sites. use friends, experts, community or your own slashtags to slash in what you want and slash out what you don't.

• Ajax.org - The real-time collaborative application platform

  Ajax.org Platform is a pure javascript application framework for creating real-time collaborative applications that run in the browser.

• Protovis

  Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction.

• jQuery Sparklines

  This jQuery plugin generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript.

• Axiis : Data Visualization Framework

  Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike. Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has somethin

• Modest Maps

  Our intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects.

• Flare | Data Visualization for the Web

  Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques.

• blender.org - Home

  Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

• Voyage - RSS feed reader

  Voyage is an RSS feed reader with a difference. It’s been carefully designed around the content it displays. Add RSS feeds from you favourite sites and let voyage pull all the information together for your pleasure.

• paulstovell / Pigeon / source – Bitbucket

  A point-to-point message queue channel, written in C# using raw TCP sockets and Google Protocol Buffers.

• Tutti - Interactively run Javascript on multiple browsers

  Tutti lets you interactively execute Javascript on multiple web browsers at the same time.

• Distributed Systems Podcast

  Distributed Systems Podcast - all you ever wanted to hear and learn about building with DDD, CQRS, Cloud and much more!

• Open Craft Beer - An open blog for craft beer lovers around the world

  This is an open blog for all lovers and purveyors of great craft beers. When you are lucky enough to enjoy one of these great beers, please drop us a quick review at OpenCraftBeer@posterous.com.

• jspp

  A simple way to build web applications with embedded server side JavaScript. In a few minutes you can build dynamic backend logic in to any page (html, css, etc) using node.js, jQuery and server side DOM with php-like embedded code.

• kinemote - Project Hosting on Google Code

  KinEmote is an easy-to-use, free application that takes gestures captured by the Microsoft Kinect and translates them into key strokes that any Windows application can recognize.

• Lively Kernel - New Home

  Originally developed at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, it provides a complete platform for web applications, including dynamic graphics, network access, and development tools.

Happy New Year! I hope that 2011 brings you good health, happiness and prosperity. Here are the last of my random links for 2010, but there will be plenty more to come in 2011.

• Windows Enabler

  It allows the user to enable disabled windows and controls such as buttons and tick boxes and choose menu options that would normally be disabled.

• BindingHub for WPF and ViewModels

  Component to extend WPF binding functionality and to use binding in ViewModels not inherited from DependencyObject.

• Socket.IO: the cross-browser WebSocket for realtime apps.

  Socket.IO aims to make realtime apps possible in every browser and mobile device, blurring the differences between the different transport mechanisms.

• In-the-Lab: Windows Server 2008 R2 Template for VMware « SolutionOriented Blog

  Here’s my quick recipe to build a custom image of Windows Server 2008 R2 that has been tested with Standard, Enterprise and Foundation editions.

• How to Sysprep in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 : Brian Desmond's Blog

  If you never had the need to look at Sysprep in Windows Vista/2008, you'll find that it's nothing like what you're used to on Windows Server 2003, XP, etc.

• StyleCop for ReSharper

  StyleCop for ReSharper is a ReSharper plugin that allows Microsoft StyleCop to be run as you type, generating real-time syntax highlighting of violations and automatic fixing of StyleCop issues during ReSharper Code CleanUp (silent mode).

• IKVM.NET Home Page

  IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

• Tessnet2 a .NET 2.0 Open Source OCR assembly using Tesseract engine

  Tesseract is a C open source OCR engine. Tessnet2 is .NET assembly that expose very simple methods to do OCR. Tessnet2 is multi threaded. It uses the engine the same way Tesseract.exe does. Tessdll uses another method (no thresholding).

• FreeTextBox - ASP.NET Rich HTML editor

  The most-used free ASP.NET WYSIWYG HTML editor featured in open source and commerical projects. Just drop FreeTextbox.dll in your /bin/ folder, change to , and you're done.

• Grub | Help crawl it all

  Grub Next Generation is distributed web crawling system (clients/servers) which helps to build and maintain index of the Web. It is client-server architecture where client crawls the web and updates the server. The peer-to-peer grubclient software crawls

• Best Open Source

  There is a certain need to identify the best and help the Users to locate it easily. We constantly monitor all the products and its development and will help you and guide you to identify the best.

• Azure Blob Studio 2011

  A WPF client for managing files on your Windows Azure Blob Storage account available as a stand-alone application and as an extension for Visual Studio 2010.

• Windows Live Plug-ins

  The Windows Live Team has launched a new website showcasing and organizing plugins for Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and Writer.

• Preview Shortened URLs and Avoid Security Threats - TechSpot

  Fortunately, there are several ways to peek behind a shortened URL to see exactly where the link will take you before clicking it, so let's take a quick look at a few of them.

• SQL Scripts Manager – Powerful, reliable, automated scripting by SQL Server experts, for the community

  SQL Scripts Manager is a free tool that brings together must–have scripts from expert DBAs, SQL Server MVPs, and Red Gate developers to enable you to automate common troubleshooting, diagnostic, and maintenance tasks.

• Centage – The Smart and Fluid CSS/LESS Framework

  Centage! is my five cents in defining a good fluid css framework. Every framework has its shortcomings – as has Centage! too – but it also solves some major issues in existing ones.

• CodeMirror

  CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar.

• zLayer jQuery Plugin - Orientate Elements | Devin R. Olsen Web Developer

  zLayers is a jQuery plugin that allows you to orientate an element based on the position of your mouse to the page’s window, or element’s parent.

• DHTMLX - JavaScript Ajax Library - Components for Rich Web UI - Complete Suite of Ajax Controls, File Uploader, Scheduler, Gantt

  DHTMLX is a JavaScript library that provides essential functionality for building cross-browser, Ajax-based user interfaces. Develop impressive web applications faster with a set of ready-to-use UI widgets.

• Boxtuffs - The Box of free psd Stuff and HTML5/CSS3 things.

  Boxtuffs came from the idea of designing cool web and graphics elements, but not just you will find nice psd graphics, also you will be able to download the cool sliced elements using the new css3 and html5.

• CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator

  Another really popular option, this one allows you to edit the code just like you’d see it in a code editor. The changes are reflected on a graphic in the upper right.

• CSS3 Generator

  Definitely one of the most popular options. All the effects are fully customizable and you can choose from all the popular CSS3 properties.

• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator - ColorZilla.com

  A powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor from ColorZilla.

• Pure CSS speech bubbles – Nicolas Gallagher – Blog

  This tutorial contains various forms of speech bubble effect created with CSS 2.1 and enhanced with CSS3. No images, no JavaScript and it can be applied to your existing semantic HTML.

• Free overlapped CSS menu using CSS Sprites

  Here I am presenting a cool overlapped pure CSS menu created using CSS sprites. This is an initial draft version, so far I have checked it only in Firefox 3.5, IE 7, Chrome 3.0

• Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA

  It’s a simple button made possible by a transparent PNG overlay (for the gradient), border, border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow.

• Regex Hero - The Online .NET Regular Expression Tester

  Silverlight tool built specifically to test .NET regular expression.

• Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD

  Load scripts like images. Use HTML5 and CSS3 safely. Target CSS for different screens, paths, states and browsers. Make it the only script in your HEAD. A concise solution to universal issues.

• NounProject

  The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.

• Boozle.com.au : Search for Australia's cheapest alcohol prices

  Boozle searches 1000's of liquor stores in Australia to find your favourite beer, spirits and premixed drinks at the cheapest price, and at your closest outlets.

• TFS Integration Platform

  The TFS Integration Platform is a project developed by the Team Foundation Server (TFS) product group and the Visual Studio ALM Rangers to facilitate the development of tools that integrate TFS with other systems.

• Universal Extractor | LegRoom.net

  Universal Extractor is a program designed to decompress and extract files from any type of archive or installer, such as ZIP or RAR files, self-extracting EXE files, application installers, etc.

• Cinch

  Cinch is a fully featured WPF MVVM framework that makes it easier to develop rich MVVM WPF applications. It also provides UI services/threading/unit tests helpers and much more.

• MVVM Light Toolkit

  The MVVM Light Toolkit is a set of components helping people to get started in the Model - View - ViewModel pattern in Silverlight and WPF. It is a light and pragmatic framework that contains only the essential components needed.

• Caliburn Micro: A Micro-Framework for WPF, Silverlight and WP7

  A small, yet powerful implementation of Caliburn designed for WPF, Silverlight and WP7. The framework implements a variety of UI patterns for solving real-world problems.

• AvalonDock

  AvalonDock is a WPF controls library which can be used to create a docking layout system like that is present in VisualStudio.

• XamlQuery - The Write Less, Do More, Silverlight Library

  It simplifies several tasks like page/document traversing; finding controls by name, type, style, property value or position in control tree; event handling; animating and much more.

• xpaulbettsx/ReactiveXaml - GitHub

  An MVVM framework for Silverlight 4 and WPF that integrates the Reactive Extensions (Rx) framework.

• Artefact Animator

  Artefact Animator provides an easy to use framework for procedural time-based animations in Silverlight and WPF.

• nRoute Framework

  nRoute is a composite application framework for creating MVVM-style applications in Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone 7.

• agatha-rrsl - Project Hosting on Google Code

  Implementation of the Request/Response Service Layer for .NET.

• Vagrant

  Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments.

• Damn You Auto Correct! - Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories

  This site is dedicated to all the embarrassing, questionable, hilarious, and just plain WTF auto correct moments. If you’ve been screwed by predictive text, we want to know about it.

• Oversharers

  People who twitter or post embarrassingly intimate details, or gross and disgusting habits, or their unfortunate social awkwardness, for all to see. As if we care.

• restfulie - rest from scratch

  CRUD through HTTP is a good step forward to using resources and becoming RESTful, another step further is to make use of hypermedia aware resources and Restfulie allows you to do it in Java, Ruby and C#.

• Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie

  Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill—typing. You type something; we turn it into a movie. On the web and on the desktop.

• Executor

  This is a multi purpose launcher and a more advanced and customizable version of windows run.

Here are a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• Free source code hosting – Bitbucket

  Bitbucket is a free code hosting site for the popular Mercurial distributed version control system (DVCS) with over 60,000 users.

• Typemock Test Lint

  The world’s first and only fully extensible coding advisor for unit tests in Visual Studio 2010.

• FakeItEasy

  A .Net dynamic fake framework for creating all types of fake objects, mocks, stubs etc.

• .NET Framework System Requirements

  The tables in this topic provide the hardware, operating system, and software requirements for the .NET Framework.

• jabber-net - Project Hosting on Google Code

  A set of .Net controls for sending and receiving Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), also known as the Jabber. Client connections, server component connections, presence, service discovery, and the like.

• Programming, Software, and Technical Interview Questions - XOR Swap

  XOR Swap was created with the goal of collecting and organizing all of the coding, programming, software, and technical interview questions that have been asked in interviews at various technology-oriented companies.

• Small Basic | Development for Beginners | MSDN

  Microsoft Small Basic puts the fun back into computer programming. With a friendly development environment that is very easy to master, it eases both kids and adults into the world of programming.

• Firesheep

  A Firefox extension that demonstrates HTTP session hijacking attacks.

• JSON C# Class Generator

  This application generates C# classes from a sample JSON text, so you can use strongly typed programming with JSON. It currently supports typed arrays, typed objects, integers, floats, booleans, strings and nullable types.

• JSON Formatter

  The JSON Formatter was created to help with debugging. As data expressed as JSON is often written without line breaks to save space, it became extremely difficult to actually read it. This tool hopes to solve the problem by formatting the JSON into data t

• AutoFixture

  AutoFixture is designed to make Test-Driven Development more productive. It does so by removing the need for hand-coding anonymous variables as part of a test's Fixture Setup phase. Among other features, it offers a generic implementation of the Test Data

Here are a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• Phono - jQuery Phone Plugin

  Phono is a simple jQuery plugin and JavaScript library that turns any web browser into a phone; capable of making phone calls and sending instant messages. You can even connect to SIP clients; all with a simple unified API.

• re-linq

  With re-linq, it's now easier than ever to create full-featured LINQ providers. Instead of the IQueryable expression tree, re-linq gives you an abstract syntax tree that resembles the original LINQ query expression.

• Readmeo - Read your links later

  So much to read, so little time? Readmeo is a simple tool that allows you to save links for reading later.

• Fillerati - Faux Latin is a Dead Language

  I made Fillerati because I grew tired of reading "Lorem ipsum..." on every new design I was working on. It's built with HTML5 and CSS2/CSS3, and consequently is best viewed in a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera.

• HubbleDotNet - Free open-source SQL full-text search database can be used as search engine

  HubbleDotNet is an free open-source full-text search database project based on .Net Framework which can be used as search engine system. Fast, precise, SQL supported, distributable and easy to use.

• Elastic CSS Framework

  A simple css framework to layout web-based interfaces, based on the printed layout techniques of 4 columns but with capabilities to unlimited column combinations. and capacity to make elastic, fixed and liquid layout easily.

• Code Flow 49: Automatic INotifyPropertyChanged with DynamicObject

  In this post, I show how to use the DynamicObject class introduced in .Net 4 to create a proxy that wraps access to another object’s properties while adding automatic support for INotifyPropertyChanged.

• Extension Method

  ExtensionMethod.NET is a database of C# 3.0, F# and Visual Basic 2008 extension methods. It contains many user-rated extension methods that will expand your code library immediately.

• HTML5 enabling script

  Since HTML5 is getting more attention by way of marking up our new pages, and the only way to get IE to acknowledge the new elements, such as

  , is to use the HTML5 shiv, I've quickly put together a mini script that enables all the new elements.

• #eCSStender.org { content: "Homepage"; }

  Say goodbye to the browser-specific properties and hacks cluttering your files and say hello to lean, mean CSS. With eCSStender, when you write the rules, browsers pay attention.

• GalaSoft - MVVM Light Toolkit

  The main purpose of the toolkit is to accelerate the creation and development of MVVM applications in WPF, Silverlight and in the Windows Phone 7.

• NBuilder - Rapid generation of test objects for .NET

  Through a fluent, extensible interface, NBuilder allows you to rapidly create test data, automatically assigning values to properties and public fields that are of type of the built in .NET data types (e.g. ints and strings).

• Fluent Assertions

  Fluent Assertions is a set of .NET extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style test.

• fit-PC2

  fit-PC2 is smaller than a soft drink can. In fact, it is the smallest PC available. fit-PC2 is not only tiny, but also fanless. fit-PC2 fits anywhere and saves significant space.

• Tumblr

  Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme's HTML.

• NBehave

  he primary goal of NBehave is a framework for defining and executing application requirement goals. These characterizations are modeled after the Behavioral Driven Design (BDD) terms Story, Scenario, Given, When, Then.

• 7 Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programmers and Architects : Amazedsaint's .net journal

  Some of these books will definitely help us to evolve our coding skills and thought processes for developing better solutions.

• OpenRasta

  OpenRasta is a resource-oriented framework for .NET enabling easy ReST-ful development of web sites and services.

• NuPack

  NuPack is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development.

• Kylo Browser

  Kylo is a Mozilla-based web browser optimized for surfing the web on your HDTV from the comfort of your couch.

• NoSQL Basics, Benefits and Best-Fit Scenarios

  A popular new movement aims to take SQL database management systems out of the stack. But when is this emerging approach right for you?

• visualizing.org

  Making sense of complex issues through data and design.

• Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets

  Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.

• Snipt | Share and store code or command snippets.

  It's good for storing small pieces of code or commands that you use rather frequently, and will probably forget.

• atomsite.net-The AtomPub server for .NET

  AtomSite is a standards-based web publishing system. It's free, open and built using Microsoft's latest web framework. It'll have your website up in a snap!

• FluidKit

  This is a WPF library containing a powerhouse of controls, frameworks, helpers, tools, etc. for productive WPF development.

• Jo HTML5 Mobile App Framework

  A Pretty UI Widget Framework With a side of DOM, event and data stuff.

• tipsy

  Tipsy is a jQuery plugin for creating a Facebook-like tooltips effect based on an anchor tag's title attribute.

• AgileZen – Project management gets lean

  AgileZen is a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to manage your work. With an easy-to-use web interface, and by drawing on ideas from lean manufacturing, we help you stay organized, focused, and on target.

• Instant CSS Code - Create a web project framework in seconds.

  Instant CSS Code allows you to quickly create a web project framework with valid HTML/xHTML and CSS in only a matter of seconds, allowing you to get your project up and running faster!

• Window Functions (OVER Clause) – Help Make a Difference - Puzzled By T-SQL

  In this article I will explain some of the key features that are missing in SQL Server and why it’s important to add support for such features.

• ProtoFluid - HTML5 and CSS3 Web App Prototyping

  Quick, easy web app testing in portrait/landscape on any screen size via CSS Media Queries.

• .NET Micro Framework - Home

  The .NET Micro Framework is .NET for small and resource constrained devices. It offers a complete and innovative development and execution environment that brings the productivity of modern computing tools to this class of devices.

• googlechartsharp - Project Hosting on Google Code

  A C# wrapper for the Google Chart API.

• Google URL Shortener

  All goo.gl URLs and click analytics are public and can be shared by anyone.

• Extended Reflection - Microsoft Research

  ExtendedReflection makes it easy to build runtime analysis tools for .NET. ExtendedReflection takes care of instrumenting MSIL bodies at runtime and exposes more than 200 .NET callbacks, such as method enter/exit, argument values or field writes.

• Eloquera DB | Home

  Eloquera Database is an object database for .NET environments. It has several unique features which make it highly attractive to web and desktop application developers.

• STSdb - STS Soft Database - STS Soft Home Page

  STSdb is a free open-source embedded object database system (NoSQL key/value pair storage engine) designed for mission critical and real-time applications. It provides intuitive use and blazing performance.

• Sterling Isolated Storage Database with LINQ for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7

  Sterling is a lightweight object-oriented database implementation for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 that works with your existing class structures.

• toto

  toto is a git-powered, minimalist blog engine for the hackers of Oz. The engine weighs around ~300 sloc at its worse.

• LESS - Leaner CSS

  LESS extends CSS with: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules.

• Mond-JN - jQuery UI - Effects cheat sheet

  blind, clip, drop, explode, fold, puff, slide, scale - pattern1, scale - pattern2, scale - pattern3, pulsate, bounce, highlight, shake, and transfer.

Here are a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• C# open-source

  csharpopensource provides quick and ready access to many of the higher quality projects available.

• Gist - GitHub

  Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are git repositories, so they are automatically versioned, forkable and usable as a git repository.

• pinvoke.net: the interop wiki!

  PInvoke.net is primarily a wiki, allowing developers to find, edit and add PInvoke* signatures, user-defined types, and any other information related to calling Win32 and other unmanaged APIs from managed code (written in languages such as C# or VB.NET).

• StoryQ

  StoryQ is a portable (single dll), embedded BDD framework for .NET 3.5. It runs within your existing test runner and helps produce human-friendly test output (html or text). StoryQ's fluent interface adds strong typing, intellisense and documentation to y

• Free CSS templates - Download Free CSS Templates

  Welcome to Free CSS Templates Website! Find here a never before seen collection of free CSS Templates, one of the biggest in the entire web!

• High-Performance Dynamic Pattern Matching over Disordered Streams - Microsoft Research

  Current pattern-detection proposals for streaming data recognize the need to move beyond a simple regular-expression model over strictly ordered input.

• Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page

  Page2RSS is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS reader.

• Forwarding meta-object « Tomáš Matoušek’s Weblog

  The ForwardingMetaObject class defined below makes it easy to forward dynamic operations from one dynamic class (forwarder) to another (forwardee).

• Implementing Dynamic Interfaces

  One great advantage of dynamic programming is the ability to build types whose public interfaces change at runtime based on how you use these types.

• Clay

  Clay is a dynamic C# type that will enable you to sculpt objects of any shape just as easily as in JavaScript or other dynamic languages.

• AES Encryption Flaw Exposes ASP.NET Sites -- Visual Studio Magazine

  Two security researchers, Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo, have discovered a bug in the default encryption mechanism used to protect the cookies normally used to implement Forms Authentication in ASP.NET.

• elRTE - open source WYSIWYG editor for Web

  elRTE is an open-source WYSIWYG HTML-editor written in JavaScript using jQuery UI. It features rich text editing, options for changing its appearance, style and many more. You can use it in any commercial or non-commercial projects.

• ProCSSor - Advanced CSS Prettifier

  A powerful (and wholly free) CSS prettifier that lets you format CSS in the exact way you want.

• Lumzy

  Lumzy is a Mockup and Prototype creation tool for websites and applications. By Mockup, we mean that quick sketch that gives an idea of what the site or application you are planning to build will look like.

• Jungle Disk

  Protect your files against loss, theft, viruses, and natural disasters. Share business data securely and privately in the office or across the globe. Sync your critical work across all your computers.

• Processing.org

  Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions.

• The Pomodoro Technique™

  The Pomodoro Technique™ is a way to get the most out of time management. Turn time into a valuable ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it.

• PechaKucha 20x20

  Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace.

• NSubstitute - a friendly substitute for .NET mocking libraries

  We found that for all their great features, none of the existing frameworks had the succinct syntax we were craving — the code required to configure test doubles quickly obscured the intention behind our tests.

• CQRS

  This site is an attempt to create a place that you can come to in order to learn about CQRS, Event Sourcing, and lots of other good stuff. There are many documents and videos of training available here.

• jsPerf: JavaScript performance playground

  jsPerf aims to provide an easy way to create and share test cases, comparing the performance of different JavaScript snippets by running benchmarks.

• BlogTrog CodeWindow - Share your code online with syntax highlighting

  BlogTrog Code Window provides an extremely easy way to share code on a blog or website.

• Magellan: an MVC-powered Navigation framework for WPF - CodeProject

  Magellan's goal is to create a pit of success for WPF applications. The goal of this article is to describe what the pit looks like, how it works, and why you'd even want to fall in.

• Apache Qpid: Open Source AMQP Messaging

  Apache Qpid implements the latest AMQP specification, providing transaction management, queuing, distribution, security, management, clustering, federation and heterogeneous multi-platform support and a lot more. And Apache Qpid is extremely fast.

• LABjs :: Home

  LABjs (Loading And Blocking JavaScript) is an open-source (MIT license) project supported by Getify Solutions.

• RequireJS

  RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node.

• Jasmine: Javascript Testing Framework

  Jasmine is our dream JavaScript testing framework. It’s heavily influenced by, and borrows the best parts of, ScrewUnit, JSSpec, JSpec, and of course RSpec.

• Pex for fun - from Microsoft Research

  Pex for fun brings programming in C#, Visual Basic, and F# to your web browser.

• jQuery color plugin xcolor - Website and Application Intelligence

  The xcolor plugin is an easy-to-use jQuery extension to manipulate colors in all imaginable combinations.

• Heroku | Ruby Cloud Platform as a Service

  Heroku (pronounced her-OH-koo) is a cloud application platform for Ruby – a new way of building and deploying web apps.

• Free Icons Search Engine - FindIcons.com

  We have the largest searchable free icons database in the world and both a sophisticated search filtering and result matching system make it possible for you to get an icon you need for every design task.

Here are (more than) a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator

  Reference site about Lorem Ipsum, giving information on its origins, as well as a random Lipsum generator.

• Domain Tools: Whois Lookup and Domain Suggestions

  DomainTools combines the most comprehensive set of domain name ownership records available with important web hosting data to expose new opportunities in website improvement, domain investment and brand protection.

• Copy Paste Code | personal pastebin - debug, share, develop, store

  Copy Paste Code allows you to publish your code with colored syntax for most popular programming languages out there. After publishing you can share your code to colleagues and friends, and they can debug and use your code snippets.

• MozyPro | Mozy

  Manage multi-user environments, schedule automatic backups, and monitor the health of your backups from the convenience of a single web-based admin console.

• Azure Storage Explorer

  Azure Storage Explorer is a useful GUI tool for inspecting and altering the data in your Azure cloud storage projects including the logs of your cloud-hosted applications.

• Doit.im | Online Time and Task Management System, Always Online, Always With You!

  We believe that Doit.im can ease you of the anxiety, and help you better deal with your work and study, and better enjoy your life.

• Tracks :: index

  Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like.

• Alternative software and apps to your PC (Windows, Linux), Mac, iPhone, Android, Web/Online and other platforms. - AlternativeTo.net

  AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you great alternatives, based on user recommendations.

• SpecFlow - Pragmatic BDD for .NET

  SpecFlow aims at bridging the communication gap between domain experts and developers by binding business readable behavior specifications to the underlying implementation.

• AV-Test.org · Tests of Anti-Virus- and Security-Software

  Every year we perform more than 2,500 product tests of anti-virus, anti-spyware, personal firewalls and related products on behalf of vendors, integrators (OEM), corporate users and magazines.

• EffiProz Pure C# Database

  A Cross-Platform Embedded Database for .NET Programmers.

• ProcDump

  ProcDump is a command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during a spike that an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause of the spike.

• Pastie

  All your pastes are belong to us.

• AppFabric Caching Admin Tool

  The AppFabric Caching Admin Tool help you manage the Microsoft Distributed Cache.

• CSS3.0 Maker | CSS3.0 Generator

  CSS Maker is a free tool to experiment with CSS properties and values and generate a simple stylesheet for your site.

• Open Source CMS Demos & Information - opensourceCMS

  opensourceCMS.com is designed to give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best open source software systems in the world.

• Yoink • Get Giving.

  Yoink is the easiest way to get free things from people near you and give things away you don't need. It only takes a minute so just get started!

• Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET

  The patterns & practices group has been writing a new guide that will introduce .NET programmers to patterns for including parallelism in their applications.

• Smush.it™

  Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. It is a "lossless" tool, which means it optimizes the images without changing their look or visual quality.

• PNGCRUSH

  Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. It can be run from a commandline in an MSDOS window, or from a UNIX or LINUX commandline.

• Pingdom Tools

  Enter a URL to test the load time of all elements on that page, find bottlenecks.

• DDD/CQRS | Google Groups

  Discussions about DDD, CQRS, and Event Sourcing

• Raphaël—JavaScript Library

  Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

• SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark

  This is SunSpider, a JavaScript benchmark. This benchmark tests the core JavaScript language only, not the DOM or other browser APIs.

• CSS3 . Info - All you ever needed to know about CSS3

  We created this site because we want to share our experiences of CSS3 with you, and want nothing more than to simply be the biggest online resource covering CSS3. (Hey, we're ambitious!)

• SQL Compact Toolbox

  SQL Server Compact Toolbox is a Visual Studio 2010 Pro or higher add-in (for 3.5/4.0) and standalone app (for 4.0), that adds scripting, import, export, migrate, rename, run script, manage replication and more to your SQL Server Compact Data Connections i

• Vischeck: Home

  Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page.

• Color Trends Palettes :: COLOURlovers

  COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles... All in the spirit of love.

• kuler

  No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

• Quince / UX Patterns Explorer

  Quince is a rich UX patterns, sometimes called UI patterns, explorer.

• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance

  The artifacts include an overview document and poster that allows you to quickly focus on individual areas like testing, by providing crisp and compact guidance sheets and quick reference posters.

• T4 Toolbox

  T4 Toolbox is a set of ready-to-use code generators and T4 extensions for Visual Studio.

• Urbanturtle: Scrum TFS Team Foundation Server

  Urban Turtle is an intuitive Scrum tool for TFS built to simplify your software development cycles.

• SQL Server Customer Advisory Team - SQL Server Best Practices

  Enabling SQL Server customers to navigate the most challenging frontiers of large scale data management.

• RabbitMQ - Messaging that just works

  RabbitMQ is a complete and highly reliable enterprise messaging system based on the emerging AMQP standard.

• CodePlex Publishing Plugin

  This addin allows publishing your project directly from Visual Studio, this eliminating the unnecessary step of going to the CodePlex site to publish.

• jQuery Mobile

  jQuery Mobile: Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets. A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enh

• Hostlogr.com - Who is hosting that website?

  Hostlogr.com is a free service that allows you to find out which hoster/ISP is being used by certain websites. Simply fill out the website you want to check, and we will build a report showing you who is currently hosting that particular website. No regis

• Membase.org

  Membase is an open-source (Apache 2.0 license) distributed, key-value database management system optimized for storing data behind interactive web applications.

• Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets

  Dremel is a scalable, interactive ad-hoc query system for analysis of read-only nested data. By combining multi-level execution trees and columnar data layout, it is capable of running aggregation queries over trillion-row tables in seconds.

• The Apache Cassandra Project

  The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.

• ThinVNC - HTML5 Remote Desktop | Download ThinVNC - HTML5 Remote Desktop software for free at SourceForge.net

  ThinVNC is a pure HTML & AJAX Remote Desktop implementation.

• Murphy Laws Site

  The origin and laws of Murphy in one place.

• Web development and deployment tools: CodeRun

  CodeRun Studio is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE), designed for the cloud. It enables you to easily develop, debug and deploy web applications using your browser.

• Pipes: Rewire the web

  Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

• The CQRS Kitchen

  The CQRS Kitchen is an example application build with Silverlight that demonstrates how to implement a CQRS / Event Sourcing application with the .NET Framework.

• Growl for Windows

  Growl for Windows is a Windows-compatible version of Growl, a notification system for Mac OS X.

• Bingle.nu

  Bingle is a new search hybrid that will let you look up anything that you want in the two main services of the day, namely Google and Bing.

• Orchard Project - Home Page

  Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform.

• Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky

  Mercurial is a modern, open source, distributed version control system, and a compelling upgrade from older systems like Subversion. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts.

• Instant SQL Formatter

  Instant SQL Formatter is a free online sql tidy tool, actually, it not only can beautify your sql but also can turn your formatted sql into html code, so you can post coloured sql code in your blog, forum,wiki and any website easily.

• Online HTML to PDF Converter. Free HTML to PDF

  This is a simple HTML to PDF Converter. You don't need to install anything on your computer. Free with no registration required!

• Linkable – The New Way to Manage All Your Bookmarks

  Linkable lets you organize all your bookmarks on a single page that you can access anywhere.

• Skitch.com Skitch = fast and fun screen capture and image sharing.

  Skitch.com is a webservice that works hand in hand with our application Skitch to give you 1-click uploading of images for fast and fun image sharing.

• MicroStrategy Business Intelligence and Mobile Business Intelligence

  MicroStrategy is a global leader in Business Intelligence. More than one million people use our software every day for unlimited data analysis, reports and dashboards, mobile intelligence, data mining, forecasting, operations management, and executive dec

• VisualHG

  Mercurial Source Control Plugin for MS Visual Studio.

• MetaSharp

  MetaSharp is a developer tool designed to assist in the creation of Programming Languages.

• NuCaptcha -- Better Security, Easier to Use

  NuCaptcha is a security platform that uses motion video to authenticate human web interactions.

• Embedly - API

  The Embedly API allows developers to embed videos, images and rich media from 112 services through one API.

• Cosmos

  Welcome to the Cosmos home page. Cosmos is an operating system project implemented completely in CIL compliant languages. The team is committed to using C#, however any .NET language can be used.

• Website Worth Calculator

  Worthy Site is a free service to provide webmasters with important information about the websites. All the data is gathered in real time for various reliable sources on the internet.

• Multwiple: the Best Twitter client around.

  Multwiple.com is a web-based twitter client that allows you to use all your twitter accounts in one place. We have taken some inspiration from Seesmic and echofon.

• YUI Library

  The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written with JavaScript and CSS, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.

• Sideline from Yahoo!

  Watch, search and monitor the Twitter public timeline in real-time. Sideline is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest.

• Machine Learning for .NET

  Initial inclusions will be binary and multi-class classification as well as standard clustering algorithms.

• Interoperability with WCF

  Microsoft has been an active participant in the web services standardization and interoperability efforts from the beginning. Web Services interoperability continues to be a high priority for us.

• Detours - Microsoft Research

  Software packaged for detouring Win32 and application APIs.

• object database for .NET, Mono and Silverlight | siaqodb

  siaqodb is object database engine that currently runs on .NET 3.5 , Mono 2.4 , Silverlight 3 and 4 , as well on Windows Phone 7. As query engine it use LINQ and is first database on the market that provide LINQ query editor in SiaqodbManager application.

• Ncqrs Framework

  Ncqrs is a framework for .NET helps build scalable, extensible and maintainable applications by supporting developers apply the CQRS architectural pattern.

• SlideShare

  Upload and share your PowerPoint & Keynote presentations, Word & PDF documents and professional videos on SlideShare. Add audio to make a webinar. Capture leads with your presentations.

• css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design

  A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

• MicroPoll

  The easiest way to create website polls...FREE!

• 48ers - Realtime Social Search

  48ers was created to help you search for what's happening right now.

• is.gd URL Shortener - The Shortest URLs Around

  Our goal is to allow shortening URLs to the maximum extent technically possible.

• WEI Share

  WEI Share is an application for sharing your Windows Experience Index (WEI) scores from Windows 7 with others in the community.

• Agile Project Management Tool | Mingle- Project Collaboration Software for Iterative Developments | ThoughtWorks Studios

  Mingle® adapts your company’s process to Agile best practices, and helps your teams stay on top of evolving requirements in collaboration with business users.

• NOSQL Databases

  Your Ultimate Guide to the Non - Relational Universe!

• www.hornget.net

  The initial mission statement is to take control of building a common set of open source packages that are probably similar to many in the ALT.NET space.

• storevil - Project Hosting on Google Code

  StorEvil is a .NET tool to enable natural language test specification and execution with minimum fuss on the part of developers and spec creators/business owners.

• OWASP

  The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software.

• Netsparker, False Positive Free Web Application Security Scanner - Mavituna Security

  We are committed to developing a web application security scanner which accomplishes what it claims. A web application security scanner should find vulnerabilities and should not report false-positives.

• .home | Microsoft Design .toolbox

  Welcome to .toolbox, a fun online learning environment, where you will learn basic design concepts and how to apply them, as well as the fundamentals of creating Silverlight applications using the Expression Studio tools.

• Chrome Experiments - Home

  These experiments were created by designers and programmers from around the world using the latest open standards, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and more.

• WebSync Comet Server, HTTP Push/Reverse Ajax Streaming for ASP.NET and IIS - Frozen Mountain

  Today's users demand more than ever. Enhance your applications using WebSync, the world's most powerful comet (reverse Ajax, HTTP Push) server for the .NET platform.

• Kanban Tool – empower yor personal and team productivity with online kanban boards

  Try Kanban Tool - the better way to organise your work and manage projects.

• Present.ly - The Constant Awareness Communication Tool - Private Microblogging for your Business

  Present.ly is an award-winning microblogging platform that keeps your company connected in real-time. Increase your team's productivity by posting updates, sharing files, exchanging ideas, and more.

Here are a few links that I found interesting for one reason or another.

• db4o open source object database, native to Java and .NET

  db4o is the open source object database that enables Java and .NET developers to store and retrieve any application object with only one line of code, eliminating the need to predefine or maintain a separate, rigid data model.

• Coding Instinct: Sequential Async using CoRoutines

  But I will focus this blog post on one aspect of that sample app which is how Rob implemented async workflows.

• VoltDB: Fast, Scalable, Open-Source SQL DBMS with ACID

  Open-source VoltDB provides a very fast, scalable, fault-tolerant and ACID-compliant, distributed SQL database for transactional (OLTP) applications.

• Greenplum Database 4.0: Critical Mass Innovation

  Greenplum Database 4.0, a major release of Greenplum's industry-leading massively parallel processing (MPP) database product, is the culmination of more than seven years of development.

• Project Voldemort

  It is basically just a big, distributed, persistent, fault-tolerant hash table.

• Catch404 – A jQuery And CSS3 Modal Plugin For Handling Broken Links Elegantly

  Through the magic of jQuery we’re going to catch 404 errors without your users even having to leave the page and then suggest some other options they’ve got using an inline jQuery Modal window.

• WorldWide Telescope

  WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.

• QuicklyCode - Find and share cheat sheets and programming stuff

  Find and share cheat sheets and programming stuff.

• TeamLab – Create Your Enterprise Portal in the Cloud for Free

  TeamLab is a free open-source platform for business collaboration and project management.

• Journyx Presents: jPint - Journyx, Inc.

  jPint is a set of libraries designed by Journyx to allow developers to build web-based applications that look and feel as much like native iPhone apps as possible.

• Open Source Icons - gcons

  Comprehensive collection of 100 creative, open source and multi-purpose icons in 12 colors for the web and desktop applications.

• Aloha Editor - The HTML5 Editor

  The world's most advanced browser based Editor lets you experience a whole new way of editing. It’s faster than existing technologies and offers unprecedented functionalities.

• CriticalPast.com: Search over 57000 videos and 7 million photos

  View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage.

• OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software

  The goal of OpenStack is to allow any organization to create and offer cloud computing capabilities using open source software running on standard hardware.

• Launchpad

  Launchpad is a software collaboration platform that provides: Bug tracking, Code hosting using Bazaar, Code reviews, Ubuntu package building and hosting, Translations, Mailing lists, Answer tracking and FAQs, Specification tracking.

• Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor

  Adam Somlai-Fischer and Peter Halacsy started working on Prezi in 2007, as they felt slides limited their ability to develop and explain ideas. Prezi was their response to solve these issues.

• Google API Timeline

  An interactive chart that shows the different Google APIs offered from 2005 to present.

• Matrix Platform

  The platform provides a flexible, reusable, durable environment for building .NET solutions. It is suitable for building desktop, client-server, web based or even cloud computing solutions.

• Model-View-* - UK Application Development Consulting - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

  I am writing this post to illustrate my understanding and interpretation of the Model-View-* patterns and their variations so I can refer back to this post later.

• wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions

  This site contains many articles on a number of interesting topics.

• Home - Pencil Project

  The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

• XamlResource.com

  Its purpose is to create a platform to find and share resources for Silverlight and WPF, resources in the form of Xaml.

• MapReduce.org

  MapReduce.org compiles the best information about MapReduce, the software framework popularized by Google to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers.

• Some Datasets Available on the Web » Data Wrangling Blog

  Most of these datasets are related to machine learning, but there are a lot of government, finance, and search datasets as well.

• How to find images on the internet « Random knowledge

  Images can be found just about everywhere on the mighty internet. Below you’ll find some interesting gateways to larger image collections. Some are for free, some ask for hard bucks.

• (theinfo)

  This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them.

• OpenStreetMap

  OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.

• VB and C# grammar for VS2010 - Lucian's VBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

  Here is language grammar for Visual Basic 10 and for C# 4.0. These are the versions of the languages which shipped with Visual Studio 2010.