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"The WiX toolset builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset integrates seamlessly into build processes. "

"Closure Inspector is an extension to Firebug, the Firefox debugger extension. Closure Inspector adds three powerful features to Firebug: source mapping, improved stack trace display, and unit test integration. This document describes how to install and use Closure Inspector."

"Lurking on any machine that has Windows Scripting Host installed (virtually all machines these days, although scripting can be disabled), is a powerful Regular Expressions facility, the VBScript.RegExp scripting object. You can get to it from any COM client that supports the IDispatch interface. IDispatch, you'll recall, is COM's popular late-binding interface - it allows applications to use COM components without knowing anything about them at compile-time. In T-SQL, we get to IDispatch via the sp_OA stored procedures. Via a simple UDF, we can access the RegExp object as though it were part of T-SQL:"

"The Crimson Consulting Group has just published a white paper worth reading: Comparing the Business Value of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Oracle Database 11g, Perceptions vs. reality in the RDBMS marketplace (April, 2011). The traditional user-friendliness of a mid-tier product has matured in terms of scalability. Today, you will find SQL Server 2008R2 installations running on 256 core machines -- scalability is no longer an issue. Unfortunately, the traditional scalability product has not grown significantly friendlier to developers and users; this leaves SQL Server 2008R2 the clear value winner for both lowest development expense and total cost of ownership for operations."

"OpenWrap lets you search for and consume packages in your projects, and resolve for you the various dependencies that each of those packages contain. This will let you easily install your latest open-source framework as easily as typing o add-wrap nhibernate.core."

"UPDATE: I've updated the msysgit installation screens so they are more current. Git-1.7.2.3 is the latest one as of this update. The subsequent screens show Git-1.6.3. I assure you that all of the commands in the first three parts of this series will work on 1.6.3."

"IETester is a free (both for personal and professional usage) WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE10 preview, IE9, IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. "

"MiniProfiler is a tool created and used by the StackExchange group of websites and is used for profiling your .NET and Ruby applications. Whilst in your development environment you can use it to get an overlay on your page detailing the code execution of your Application. For those of you that have ever tried to identify bottlenecks in your applications you can immediately see how useful this can be. Take a look at this screenshot from the Jambr blog page."