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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.

NuPack is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development.

Implement your slideshow with the Agile Carousel JQuery plugin. Highly customizable so you can build according to your requirements. JSON data format is used to provide easier integration with external data or data from your CMS. Use it for agile web development. This is an all new version written from scratch. JQuery UI effects and the ability to read files on the server are no longer included. New features are added, such as "Control Sets" which allow for a more customizable setup. Now posted on Github for faster development.

SimpleModal is a lightweight jQuery Plugin which provides a powerful interface for modal dialog development. Think of it as a modal dialog framework. SimpleModal gives you the flexibility to build whatever you can envision, while shielding you from related cross-browser issues inherent with UI development.

Focus on writing great software. Let FinalBuilder take care of the build. Thousands of Software Developers rely on FinalBuilder to automate the build, test and release process.

Good article on estimating dev tasks: - Let developers estimate their own work - Design first, and in detail - Break things down to very small tasks - Track actual times and learn from your mistakes - Account for vacations, holidays, meetings, etc. - Add schedule items - Ignore business needs (and your manager) - Learn more

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Brings all Sitecore objects into Visual Studio. Reduces your deployment time to almost zero.

"Gaia is an open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2 designed to dramatically reduce development time. With Gaia's revolutionary scaffolding engine, you can build a fully functional Flash site in less than 10 minutes without writing a single line of Actionscript!"

Skeleton is a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone. Skeleton is built on three core principles: - Responsive Grid Down To Mobile - Fast to Start - Style Agnostic

QUnit is the unit testrunner for the jQuery project. Every plugin developer can leverage the testsuite to unit test their code.

"Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) This article assumes you already understand what CSRF is and how it works. If you don't, do a quick Google search and it will clear it up. CSRF can be done using POST or GET, but GET is much easier to implement. By default, ASP.Net forms and other functionality work via the POST method. If we could submit a GET instead of a POST it would open up the attack surface a great deal. No longer do we need someone to visit a page with a form on it, but we could actually embed the GET request (a link) in emails or other medium. Fortunately for the attacker, unfortunately for the developer, .Net uses Value Shadowing for its controls. This means all server side controls, ie. Viewstate, EventValidation, EventCommand, EventArguments, etc.. It is possible to take the values that would be submitted as part of the form and just add them to the Querystring instead. Now there is a GET request that is comparable to the POST request. ASP.Net Webforms does not check whether a post back comes from GET or POST. The one thing to keep in mind is that the URL in a GET is limited in size. If the form is large and the viewstate is very large, this could block this technique from working. This depends on the way the application is configured (more later)."

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

Easy, object oriented client side graphs for designers and developers