"Bling is a C#-based library for easily programming images, animations, interactions, and visualizations on Microsoft's WPF/.NET. Bling is oriented towards design technologists, i.e., designers who sometimes program, to aid in the rapid prototyping of rich UI design ideas. "
Telerik's community software page includes links to their free software, and "community" versions of some of their commercial products (like Sitefinity).
"We kick off C9 Lectures with a journey into the world of Functional Programming with functional language purist and high priest of the lambda calculus, Dr. Erik Meijer "
Prophet is a new kind of database that offers peer-to-peer opportunistic replication (it's basically like a database version of the Sync framework). It's a very lightweight semi-relational database.
SD (Simple Defects) is a bug tracking tool based on Prophet that is not-only peer-to-peer, but it syncs with other bug tracking tools!
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« It gets me to thinking, what makes beautiful code? In HTML, it comes down to craftsmanship. Let's take a look at some markup written they way markup should be written and see how beautiful it can be. » [ + PNG image ]
"Rx is a superset of the standard LINQ sequence operators that exposes asynchronous and event-based computations as push-based, observable collections via the new .NET 4.0 interfaces IObservable and IObserver. These are the mathematical dual of the familiar IEnumerable and IEnumerator interfaces for pull-based, enumerable collections in the .NET framework. "
Yahoo! Blueprint is a technology for creating mobile web sites for many different types of mobile phones. Use the technology that powers our products in your own sites-all you need is a web server and some simple XML.
Build-time error reporting, refactoring and code completion in Visual Studio
Extended JavaScript syntax power with C# language features
Pure client-side control library coded in C#
Taco Bell Programming is about developers knowing enough about Ops (and Unix in general) so that they don't overthink things, and arrive at simple, scalable solutions.
There's something to be said for reusing the great (functional) tools and components that are already in your tool set. Simple and functional is a great combination, and the less code *you* have to write (for a given solution) the less code you'll have to maintain.