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"Yesterday I wrote that Facebook is testing a new administration for Facebook fan pages and they will soon allow Facebook page administrators to change their Facebook page names. However I didn't mention the limit but now I know it"

Flapjax is a programming language which compiles to cross-platform javascript, but purports to be quite a bit easier to use ...

A 5 part blogpost about the performance of a select statement done with ADO.Net using inline sql, and stored procedures (even some dynamic sql) and then nHibernate to get the same results. But this one has an alternate ending.

Mono's C# Shell ... cute, but no PowerShell ;-)

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in .NET that enables greater reuse of applications and components ... but it's (currently) licensed under the unacceptable MS-LPL ... where that extra L stands for "lock-in"

Pinax is an open-source collection of integrated, but reusable apps for the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.

Traits are a simple composition mechanism for structuring object-oriented programs. A Trait is essentially a parameterized set of methods; it serves as a behavioral building block for classes and is the primitive unit of code reuse. With Traits, classes are still organized in a single inheritance hierarchy, but they can make use of Traits to specify the incremental difference in behavior with respect to their superclasses. Unlike mixins and multiple inheritance, Traits do not employ inheritance as the composition operator. Instead, Trait composition is based on a set of composition operators that are complementary to single inheritance and result in better composition properties.

These instrauctions mostly work, but with the current version of Windows OpenSSL, the generated certificate is "not suitable for code signing" unless you modify the OpenSSL.cnf config file.

This is (finally) a Windows-compatible PORT of Growl -- not merely a Growl-like application, like "Snarl" or "Grumble", but actually an API-compatible Growl. Oh, and it can pop up notifications from web apps, what?

This is the hexeditor I eventually ended up using. A bit clonky of an interface, but very extensible.

Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly.

Windows use in the enterprise (it's traditional stronghold) has declined almost 4% to about 95% in the last year ... It's just a tiny sliver, but the real question is: is it enough to make Apple start catering to their enterprise customers?

A screensaver that darkens but does not obscure the screen.

Transparent Screensaver ... lets you lock the screen but still see what's happening.

Google does R&D but has no dedicated researchers or formal lab organization. Every engineer is considered part of the virtual R&D team and is expected to donate 20% of his time - about one day a week - to research. Xerox takes the traditional approach, investing in a separate R&D function that includes basic research ... what makes each approach successful?

Not really a fair comparison -- what has Google's R&D produced? The Android?

Trakkor lets you create a tracker for just a single DOM element given by an XPath and informs you via Atom feed if it changes. Would be cooler if it was a firefox plugin, but ... maybe we could use this on TOSes

NTrace is based on ETW(Event Tracing For Windows) which is a kernel-level tracing service which has several benefits over the tracing provided in .NET... Most importantly, it can be turned on and off without restarting the application, but it also has features like built-in high performance circular logging (a circular log is one that never grows above a specified size by flushing out older trace messages), and the ability for you to capture the logs from multiple sources into a single trace session.

Might be C# only, because of the build step

quote: "Mono.Options is a beautiful command line parsing library. It is small, succinct, a joy to use, easy and powerful, all in one." ... well, I don't know about that, but it's simple enough :)

Generate Web DataServices in VisualStudio (a bit of an overlap with ADO DataServices, but nevermind)...

An Out-Grid cmdlet implemented in what may possibly be the most complicated fashion ever ;-) David Barnhill has created a WPF app which you can instantiate from PowerShell by sending output to it... but the cmdlet actually creates a separate application object (a new process) and then communicates with it (using WCF) to send it the grid data.

Some cool tech there, but it seems like he might as well have made Out-WPFGrid into a stand-alone app -- and it seems like that would have been easier?