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My Tool List (Monday, October 26, 2009) - One of the more popular thing's Scott Hanselman has done is maintain a tool List, essentially a list of applications and utilities that he's found useful. There are plenty of absolute gems in his list and rather than present my own I'd be very comfortable just pointing you to his... But what fun would that be? None! I also think there are a few more that I can add

Object Oriented Databases with db4o (Sunday, June 07, 2009) - One of the most notable initiatives in the business software development industry in the last few years is the simplification of data access. The core complication lies in the impedance mismatch between relational storage and object oriented code higher in the stack. Far too much plumbing is required to map object properties to columns in result sets, deal with data