dbscript is a web development framework, it helps php programmers take advantage of efficient design patterns and idioms from other dynamic languages and frameworks.
for example, the Mapper and Route classes work together to map actions and records to distinct urls. among the many advantages of routes are the automatic named routes: url_for( resource ).
restful urls, http-style controllers, atompub/html introspection documents and content-negotiation are among the sophisticated features of this programmer-centric development tool.
the framework is a database abstraction layer, with built-in adapters for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
PostSharp Laos is a post-compiler, MSIL injecting, high level aspect oriented programming weaver. It looks amazing, and has been integrated with the .Net Enterprise Library 3.0 via the Enterprise Library Contribution project.
Like Netmeeting: share, review, and update documents with multiple people in real-time. Anyone can share, and the person sharing can give control to anyone else.
A description of the reservoir sampling algorithm for randomly selecting N items from a collection of unknown size in a single iteration ... including a discussion of how to deal with weighted inputs.
Pex (Program EXploration)
is an intelligent assistant to the programmer.
By automatically generating unit tests, it helps to find bugs early.
In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs.
Pex is actually a unit test generation tool. It takes a parametrized unit test and generates parameter sets to get full code coverage and exercise all of the code. It actually analyzes the code to find appropriate values, and then generates normal (unparametrized) tests.
design and build your application as a .NET client application, then assign the
portions of the application to run on the server and the client tiers late in
the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the
client tier, web services for the server tier, and communication, serialization,
synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together.
Volta is to .Net what the Google Web Toolkit is to Java ... except it goes *way* further, because it lets you write a multi-tiered application as a rich-client app and then choose to have the client portion "compile" to HTML+Javascript ...