The F# PowerPack is a collection of libraries and tools for F#, provided by the F# team at Microsoft, but which is not part of the core F# release.
The PowerPack include features such as a basic Matrix library and supporting math types, FsLex and FsYacc tools for lexing and parsing, support for using F# with LINQ-based libraries, and a tool for generating HTML documentation from F# libraries.
WordCamp Raleigh 2011 featured me talking about how to Debug in WordPress and how to file a bug report for WordPress. I talked about a number of tools that make debugging easier that everyone should check out. These tools are:
Xdebug - make your php errors look better and easier to fix
Log Deprecated Notices - Easily see in your admin area when plugins or themes are using deprecated functions, files, and arguments
Debug Bar - Firebug for your WordPress.
Debug Bar Console - add a php and sql console to your WordPress front end
XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers working in the XAML editor. Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools, DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML page layout time.
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!
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.
There are a large number of useful 3rd party open source libraries out there for the .NET platform, but for those not familiar with the OSS ecosystem, it can be a pain to pull these libraries into a project.
NuPack automates all these common and tedious tasks for a package as well as its dependencies. It removes nearly all of the challenges of incorporating a third party open source library into a project’s source tree. Of course, using that library properly is still up to the developer.
Content management systems have effectively replaced much of the tedious HTML and CSS work that was required to make changes to a website. A custom theme for your CMS still takes time and an experienced professional to execute, but business owners no longer face the hassle of learning code or paying a developer for ongoing changes for simple adjustments to content.
PTVS is a free/OSS plugin that turns Visual Studio into a Python IDE. PTVS supports CPython, IronPython, editing, browsing, Intellisense, mixed Python/C++ debugging, profiling, HPC clusters, multiple REPL's, IPython, Django, and cloud computing with client libraries for Windows, Linux and MacOS. This is an officially supported product from Microsoft's Developer Division.
This is the Hg-Git plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Mercurial. This means you can collaborate on Git based projects from Mercurial, or use a Git server as a collaboration point for a team with developers using both Git and Mercurial.
SourceCode and Compiled Binaries for two low-level system information tools: NtSysInfo explores Windows internals and enumerates system processes, windows, threads, objects. The WhoUses utility allows you to determine what process has a file or DLL locked.