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Dave Burke specializes in building online communities and enhancing existing sites with community capabilities like blogs, forums, media galleries and wikis.

For ASP.NET - Super Simple Auto Spriting, Minification and Bundling solution - No need to tell RequestReduce where your resources are - Your CSS and Javascript can be anywhere - even on an external host - RequestReduce finds them at runtime automatically

Webshims Lib is a modular capability-based polyfill-loading library, which focuses on accurate implementations of stable HTML5 features, so that developers can write modern, interoperable and robust code in all browsers. It is built on top of jQuery and Modernizr

CSS edits and image changes apply live. CoffeeScript, SASS, LESS and others just work.

A simple, flexible, powerful and fully responsive grid based front-end web framework, Makes your web development faster and easier. It takes you all the way from 1200px on down to 320px.

An API for combining, minifying, compressing, and caching CSS and JavaScript for .NET websites.

"To change the DB_Owner to some another "Database Principal"; simply Drill Down to your Database in Sql Server Management Studio and further more Drill Down to your_DB_Name > Schemas > db_owner > right click > select properties. You would find the name of the "Database Principal" that you want to delete. Change this to some another "Database Principal"; for Example, to "dbo"."

Avgrund is a jQuery plugin for modal boxes and popups. It uses interesting concept showing depth between popup and page.

A UITableView for the web: it speeds up scrolling through long lists and keeps your infinite feeds smooth and stable for your users

jQuery.suggest, a simple inline autosuggest jQuery plugin. It takes an array of terms as haystack and suggests the user the first item that matches what has been typed to this point. The suggestion is updated with every keystroke. Tab or Enter will accept the suggestion and update the input field accordingly.

The Sitecore Social Connected module contains several independent tools: Social Connector allows website visitors to log in your website using credentials from their social network accounts. Your website receives more information about the visitor from the social network profile. You can use it to personalize the website. Social Publishing allows posting automatic updates to the social networks along with publishing Sitecore items. Putting Like and Tweet buttons on the webpage. You can put the buttons as Sitecore controls and track users' activity using Sitecore analytics.

"EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor with split fullscreen editing, live previewing, automatic draft saving, offline support, and more. For developers, it offers a robust API, can be easily themed, and allows you to swap out the bundled Markdown parser with anything you throw at it. "

"Magi gets the big cookie award. Ran as administrator and all worked. Thanks for your help and everyone else who responded. "

On the server you need to install a Role Service called Management Service. You find this by going to ServerManager->Roles->WebServer(IIS) and then looking in right panel, section RoleServices. There it is, and there you can click to add it to the config.

Adipoli is a jQuery plugin that beautifies and simplifies creating and consuming such hover effects.

The Search Engine Optimization module helps administrators to detect the missing pieces of content which influence the page rank and to make the content more search engine friendly. The module contains features for both the content editors and the web site developers.

A new tool called Sitecore Rocks has been released in a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version - a early sneak peek. The tool, although a little rough around the edges, really shows a bright new future for Sitecore development, a future where we as developers do not need to muck about with browsers interfaces, only to connect our code, .NET pages and user controls into Sitecore. Now we can stay within in the tool we use and like, Visual Studio.

Sometimes it is required to get all Items in the database based on a given template. Iterating through the entire database may be a very expensive operation though. However in this particular case, we can resort to the Link database. Link database is used by Sitecore to resolve all the linking issues - what referrers and what references the Item has. And if an item is based on a template, it also counts as a reference from the item to the template. The solution then is very simple: get all the referrers for a given template item.

A free tool for designers and web developers. It parses your css and returns a copy with all external media "baked" right into it as Base64 encoded datasets. The number of time consuming http-requests on your website is decreased significantly, resulting in a massive speed-boost (server-side gzip-compression must be enabled).

A special thing about the queries is that they can be handled either directly in the database on the data provider level or by the data manager tier. When the query is being resolved, the data manager tries to use its data providers first and resorts to a higher level (and slower) API in case of failure.