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One of the painful parts of teaching a lab-based embedded systems course is that over and over I have to watch a team with a relatively simple bug in their code, but who is trying to fix it by repeatedly making random changes. Generally they start with code that's pretty close to working and break it worse and worse. By the end of the lab they're frustrated, aren't any closer to finding the bug, and have made a complete mess of their code, forcing them to go back to the previous day or week's version.

The most utilized bit of research center hardware, in any lab setting, is the pipettes.

Log Parser Lizard is a free GUI tool for managing queries and exporting results to Excel and charts.

The next release of Weave (any day now) is expected to include P2P sharing of bookmark folders via XMPP, on top of the ability to synchronize your bookmarks, browsing history, and even your cookies, passwords, and form data...

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?

Microformats are about enhancing the web, representing data in HTML and moving that data around. Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, designers and users, making it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats.

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?

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 ...

Microsoft an ASP.Net MVC "Sample" (or is it a starter kit?) source code that can be used by Web developers to build blog engines into sites ... it's called "Oxite" and it's the software running the blogs on MIX Online. http://www.codeplex.com/oxite

Visual Studio Lab (VSLab) exploits the power of F# to provide an interactive environment similar to MatLab and Mathematica ... and allowing you to easily create additional Add-ins and interact dynamically with them ...

« A 50%-good solution that people actually have solves more problems and survives longer than a 99% solution that nobody has because it's in your lab where you're endlessly polishing the damn thing. Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it. »

An easy to use, well documented set of APIs that lets you write Firefox add-ons using standard Web technology (Javascript, HTML5, and CSS).

« Writing efficient user interfaces is the main maxim, here at Vimperator labs. We often follow the Vim way of doing things, but extend its principles when necessary. Towards this end, we've created the liberator library for Mozilla based applications, to encapsulate as many of these generic principles as possible, and liberate developers from the tedium of reinventing the wheel. »

BBC : February 26, 2016, Friday Sperm have been made in the laboratory and used to father healthy baby mice in a pioneering move that could lead to infertility treatments. The Chinese research took a stem cell, converted it into primitive sperm and fertilised an egg to produce healthy pups.

Laminar wind stream is characterized as air moving at a similar speed and a similar way, with no or negligible traverse of air streams (or "lamina").

Lab items, for example, AXIVA - BEAKERS- TALL FORM, WITH SPOUT, GRADUATED AXIVA TOUFF, and plasticware, fluid taking care of and apportioning apparatuses, culture plates and measuring instruments.