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Impressive Firefox extension helps you collect bibliographic & research information from sites like Amazon, Library websites, Journal sites, etc.  The ultimate bibliography building tool: you no longer need to copy all this out of books or off web pages ... Zotero can export/import BibTeX, RIS, Refer/BibIX, RDF, MODS, etc. and can even create APA, MLA, or Chicago style citations pages for import (as RTF) into your favorite rich text editor!

Imports bibliography data from an astonishing list of sites ( http://www.zotero.org/translators/ ) via RDF and microformats ( http://www.zotero.org/documentation/compatible_standards_and_software ).  It uses the mozStorage API (backed by a SQLite database), and it's all open source ( http://dev.zotero.org/docs/ ).

This is the development version of my web-based Italian Restaurant and Party House.

Very good read (particularly their evaluation of weaving methods).

Although as a result their "Policy Injection" application block isn't as powerful as most of the straight-up AOP toolkits out there, it does have a *huge* upside: not only is the code produced by this supportable by Microsoft Product Support, it's now officially part of the Patterns and Practices recommendations!

The down side is that the only injectable objects are ones created through a "Factory" method (you can't just use the *new* constructor) this brings some performance hits ... but then, you get the ability to separate concerns and apply policies and even business rules after the fact!

AOSD tools from Microsoft? 

QUOTE: "the Policy Injection Application Block will simplify the separation of business logic from cross cutting concerns, by letting you define policies and the objects/methods they apply to in a declarative way."  -- if that's not Aspect Oriented, then I must have wasted my time in school ;-)