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After doing my latest jQuery plugin for Google+, I would like to share a few tips to help you get started quickly with Google+ API.

When teams can't get well groomed product backlog, it is almost impossible to do Scrum. Teams spend too much time figuring out what to build during sprint planning and not enough time figuring out how to build it. They never really consider if the stories were estimable, nor discuss how they could swarm to get the stories done earlier in the sprint. Teams don't work as teams, daily standup meetings suck, and teams miss commitment after commitment.

Scott Hanselman's got a great post about using jQuery extensions to add keyboard shortcuts.

Xamarin.Mobile is a library that runs on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 which abstracts the underlying functionality and exposes a common API that developers can build against.

An XSLT stylesheet that converts (X)HTML to Markdown text

s a web developer I have often had to work with the session, cookie, query string and cache to persist data locally. But it is a shame that there is no neat way of doing so. So I decided to write my own code to provide a simpler and unified model to work with and finally came up with this, a type safe and generic wrapper that supports complex data types

Web applications are offering an almost desktop-like functionality parallel to the increase in the connectivity speeds, wider usage of the cloud (easier scalability) & improvements in JavaScript/RIA development. This article describes free web applications that you can use to create your own web-based design/development environment:

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Cloud computing has started proceeding beyond the hype stage and into the beginning of mainstream adoption. Gartner had included cloud computing in their list of Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009. In this roundup, we will review some online Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) which are great examples of cloud programming. These solutions can [nearly] replace your desktop IDEs and code editors.

JSON, short for JavaScript Object Notation, is a lightweight computer data interchange format. It is a text-based, human-readable format for representing simple data structures and associative arrays (called objects). This example illustrates how to declare a JSON Contact structure.

This version also includes a cool new feature that allows students to easily graduate from Small Basic to Visual Basic with the touch of a button.

« Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. In the "hello world" web server example above, many client connections can be handled concurrently. Node tells the operating system (through epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, or select) that it should be notified when a new connection is made, and then it goes to sleep. If someone new connects, then it executes the callback. Each connection is only a small heap allocation. »

"MVC Turbine is a plugin for ASP.NET MVC that has IoC baked in and auto-wires controllers, binders, view engines, http modules, etc. that reside within your application. Thus you worry more about what your application should do, rather than how it should do it."

Universal Extractor is a program designed to decompress and extract files from any type of archive or installer, such as ZIP or RAR files, self-extracting EXE files, application installers, etc.

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

HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are standards compliant, something only achievable with a comprehensive knowledge of W3C's specifications. Tired of using BBCode due to the current landscape of deficient or insecure HTML filters? Have a WYSIWYG editor but never been able to use it? Looking for high-quality, standards-compliant, open-source components for that application you're building? HTML Purifier is for you!