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M seems to be like LINQ for data structure generation: a simple template language with assemblers for different back-end technologies.

The Microsoft code name "M" language is a declarative language for working with data and building domain models. "M" lets users write down how they want to structure and query their data using a textual syntax that is convenient to both author and reader.

Making Microformats more accessible for users, developers and designers: * An Internet Explorer Add-in that lights up Microformats on pages * A cross-browser DHTML overlay built using JQuery that aggregates Microformats * A set of beautiful CSS styles for Microformats * A Windows Live Writer Plug-in written in WinForms for inserting hCards

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.

A great article on LifeHacker with links to tools and and toys for dual monitor users.

SyncToy, a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows, is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available witho

If you're a Wordpress Content Management System user, and you would like to make your page titles SEO friendly without installing any plug-ins or modifying your website too much, then this article might be for you. All it requires is a few lines of PHP in your header.php file.

One word of caution: the "Typemock Isolator for Open Source" edition is only free to use for developers of open source projects. For Commercial users of any open source project that uses Typemock , it is not free...

Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn't even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures. It has proven to be a particularly nasty usability problem in our testing of mobile devices

Really interesting interview with Symbian boss

This Symbian system (aka Psion and Nokia S60) was well loved for its well though out personal organizer or PIM applications. Now, smartphone users seems more interested in e-mail, music and games. I am interested to see if Symbian OS still has a profitable niche. Symbian is a market leader in the new market.

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.

Inspiring radical vision for open source to win in the long term.

So what is the best way to set up NoScript to avoid XSS attacks from Facebook users?

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.

This project supports extending (hooking) unmanaged code APIs with pure managed ones ... 32- and 64-bit kernel mode hooking is supported as well as an unmanaged user-mode API which allows you to hook targets without requiring a NET Framework on the customers PC.

C++ Command Line Interfaces Standard C++-based implementation. No external dependencies, not even on a runtime library. Any fundamental or user-defined C++ type can be used as an option type. Automatic printing of formatted program usage information. Automatic documentation generation in the HTML and man page formats. Ability to read arguments from the argv array, file, and custom sources. Support for erasing parsed arguments from the argv array. Support for custom option formats. Multi-value option parsing into the std::vector, std::set, and std::map containers. Support for option aliases.

Compiled library that adds support for your site visitors to login with their OpenIDs by just dropping an ASP.NET control onto your page. It's that easy. An AJAX-style login control is also included for a slick, streamlined user experience.

"This is a simple Javascript OpenID selector. It has been designed so that users do not even need to know what OpenID is to use it, they simply select their account by a recognisable logo. "

"Besides, who am I to say your architecture sucks? And why don't I care? Because I am your users, and I don't care what your codebase looks like, I don't care what it's called, and I don't care what language it's written in. I care that it solves my problem in the simplest and fastest way possible."

Attacks on the Gmail account that was allegedly coming from Chinese spies, forcing Google to take action. Internet giant has issued a threat that it plans to pull out of the Bamboo Curtain country for good. Yes, Google is threatening to flee from China, after realizing the burglary of Gmail accounts. Google said Chinese spies had attacked them and 20 other companies.