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Kipunji is a simple, modern ASP.NET MVC web frontend for viewing the API reference documentation of .Net libraries (ie: rendering the xml docs).

Compiles PHP to MSIL and now supports using .Net objects from PHP

Because it is the language of the native APIs, Visual C++ has a special status on Windows which makes it  the best language for interacting with the platform APIs -- whether those are pure C++ APIs or COM components. This is partly due to the fact that unlike other .NET languages, Visual C++ allows managed and unmanaged code to exist in the same application and even in the same file ... allowing integration with existing apps and platform APIs that is just not possible in other .NET languages.

Simple example of how to implement two way data-binding even when you have calculated fields

Microsoft's new "Command Line Standard" guidance on how to write applications which behave nicely as part of a command line interface pipeline ... specifically, PowerShell Commandlets implement most of this by default, but this willl allow unmanaged apps to better coexist in the PowerShell world ...

In Vista, Windows Explorer is applying an implementation of the IFileIsInUse interface to the file it encountered.  Now the user knows which program has the file open and can close the file from that program and click the Try Again button to repeat the operation that was being performed.

A good place to start if you want to do trace or debug messages from .NET, this article explains the differences between trace and debug, how you can turn them on and off, and how you can set them to trace to file or event log without recompiling. Excellent.

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?

AnkhSVN supports enough of SVN in Visual Studio to get you the source control overlays in your solution explorer, which is all I *really* need. You might want to consider running it along *with* TortoiseSVN

A slick zoomable viewer for graphviz graphs

« Cache-oblivious algorithms take into account something that has been ignored in all the lectures so far, particularly, the multilevel memory hierarchy of modern computers. Retrieving items from various levels of memory and cache make up a dominant factor of running time, so for speed it is crucial to minimize these costs. The main idea of cache-oblivious algorithms is to achieve optimal use of caches on all levels of a memory hierarchy without knowledge of their size. »

I love this article. Lawrence is 60 and can perhaps afford to be sanguine, but I am glad he is warning the rest of us.

Some quotable quotes here: "while we laugh at the guy who expected that his computer could be hooked up to his boom box to use the cd, he's actually just a bit ahead of us. Yes, ahead, not behind. In the future, he probably could get his computer to talk the boom box into transferring data from its cd." "When I was a teenager, I had a friend who made extra money testing and changing vacuum tubes in TV's and radios. Try earning money that way today- there is actually a very small market for that kind of thing, and there are still people who sell tubes and the like, but that market is pretty small. In the dumbed down computers of the future, there may still be a few antique machines kicking around here and there, but that isn't going to support very many of us." This is largely true and happening all the time. A programmer can use Python or Smalltalk without needing to know C (or Fortran or assembler.) A child can program in Morphic tiles (Etoys and Scratch)! We don't need to know the difference between a serial cable and a printer cable, or how to install a driver' it is all USB (or Bluetooth!) There are some gurus that program USB, but perhaps only a few hundred of them, and the rest of us just use it.

Abstract: In many environments, multi-threaded code is written in a language that was originally designed without thread support (e.g. C), to which a library of threading primitives was subsequently added. [...] We provide specific arguments that a pure library approach, in which the compiler is designed independently of threading issues, cannot guarantee correctness of the resulting code. [...]

This is a short tutorial approach to an old but little-noticed saw.

Certain kinds of deployment are much more efficiently achieved with virtual servers. This article is a simple and almost hands-on introduction to the way a Sun Cloud deployment can be scripted or have another automated front end for deployment.

The nursery rhyme looks familiar, but how realistic is it? Smalltalk and Self appear at first glance to be in danger of this kind of horror, especially Smalltalk where every object has a class, yet a Smalltalk statement consists largely of verbs. Yegge seems to have missed an important detail in his analogy - verbs are not functions - they are symbols (selectors) that resolve to a function (method) when they are looked up (depending on ... whatever - Smalltalk the class of the receiver, CLOS the types of the arguments and so on). C and FORTRAN don't have verbs, they just have functions (actions).