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The "Other GUI Libraries" page on the WTL wiki holds a wealth of information in the form of short reviews of various (mostly free, and mostly cross-platform) gui widget toolkits like Qt, wxWidgets, Ultimate++, JUCE and others I'd never heard of ...

An Open Source media-tagging library with support for ID3, ASF, APE, Xiph, and other media tags embedded in everything from .asf to .wv including mp3 and mpeg4, wmv, etc. Supports a large variety of movie and music formats and abstracts away the differences so you can just write: file.Tag.Title, file.Tag.Duration ... etc.

Pistos should have added this to the group -- doesn't anyone else share things around here?

A good description of how Git is different than other version control systems -- makes me almost interested in using it.

There are are a couple of valuable tricks already in this toolkit: 1) a fix for NUnit (and others) to allow unit testing things which must run in STA mode. 2) a way to make your XAML data binding testable by tracing data binding warnings

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.

Microsoft DreamSpark gives millions of students in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium (and other countries coming soon) software for free ... Visual Studio 2005/2008 Professional Edition, Expression Studio (includes Web, Blend, Media, and Design), SQL Server 2005 Express, SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, Virtual PC, Windows Standard Server, XNA SDK, and a 12-month trial subscription to the XNA Creators Club.

A nice control for WPF like the "new" (in XP) sidebar in explorer (not the treeview, the other thing).

Whatever:hover is a small script that automatically patches :hover, :active and :focus for IE6, IE7 and IE8 quirks, letting you use them like you would in any other browser. Version 3 introduces ajax support, meaning that any html that gets inserted into the document via javascript will also trigger :hover, :active and :focus styles in IE.

This is Philipp Sumi, the author (among other things) of the WPF NotifyIcon control

The threshold pledge system is actually fairly common in everyday life. How often does a group of friends pool together money to buy something, or commit to doing something if the other friends make the same commitment?

This is an extremely cool and useful web application, and if it hasn't been thought of before, I'm absolutely shocked, because it makes so much sense. Essentially, PHPanywhere is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language. In other words it is a web based application that provides PHP developers a PHP code editor that mocks a desktop application, and it does so very well.

"Nietzsche would have been right at home on an ugly team: what does not kill the ugly team makes the ugly team stronger." "Real heroes are ugly. [...] In spite of their failings, they find ways to achieve, betting everything on passion, persistence, and imagination. [...] For these reasons, when things get tough, it's the ugly teams that win. People from ugly teams expect things to go wrong and show up anyway. They conquer self-doubt, make friendships under fire, and find magic in ideas that others abandon."

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Etoys has become a great branch of Squeak (it branched from 3.8, but in the course of its development for OLPC, it has gained some nice fonts and a nice toolbar, among other things.) It behaves in a slightly more mainstream way, in that Etoys users no longer save the Etoys images, just save the project file (which is referred to in help as "Keep a current project"). The Squeak image itself restarts pristine and untouched each time it is restarted. \n\nSqueakers and developers who want to save their whole image (window positions, preferences, the lot, in classic Smalltalk style) will want the save command in the World menu. Bert Freudenberg explains where the World menu is hidden.

Interesting clippings from the slides: "What can we do with it? * Write applications. Melodie uses lots of Smalltalk, first pure-Smalltalk app committed to svn in January. * Write scripts. Corner activation and gesture app uses Smalltalk for scripting. * Modify existing apps... " "We can inspect classes in a code browser, see method names, and write replacements in any running application. In a perfect Free Software system, any user can make any changes. "

My comment above might imply that Smalltalk is not modern. The truth is far from it, as Smalltalk is still pushing the boundaries of technology and user interfaces, from Croquet and Qwaq, to Alice, Sophie, Scratch and Etoys.

(I fixed Friday's broken link to the PDF.) From what I read so far, this seems to be another attempt at a fully introspecitve integrated and customisable personal computer with a graphical desktop. In other words, it is Dynabook Smalltalk and Lisp workstations all over again, but quite likely with some interesting modern twists.

XSS again, but from the other side of the fence

This useful site "Programmer Jobs" provides to the computer programmer who is seeking employment, a large listing of available jobs, listed by state. Here you will also find informative statistics, news and other useful elements to the unemployed computer programmer.

U-Prove is an innovative cryptographic technology that enables the issuance and presentation of cryptographically protected claims in a manner that provides multi-party security: issuing organizations, users, and relying parties can protect themselves not just against outsider attacks but also against attacks originating from each other. At the same time, the U-Prove technology enables any desired degree of privacy (including authenticated anonymity and pseudonymity) without contravening multi-party security. These user-centric aspects make the U-Prove technology ideally suited to create the digital equivalent of paper-based credentials and the plastic cards in one's wallet.

Code developers often have a nightmare when their development environment gets corrupted or some other snags stop them from creating and deploying their application. If such a thing happens at the eleventh hour of code delivery, hell breaks lose. At such testing times how badly as a programmer you would have wished for some alternative.