I really like http://whos.amung.us It shows real time data on who's on your site\blog right now by simply using a little gif file on each page (in the blog template, for example. here are the real time stats for my blog: http://whos.amung.us/popular/2baujzs9 plus you can see a little gif image on the...

ReSharper 3.0 is out now in final form and looks great. Here's a visual walkthrough of some of the 3.0 features, along with some old and otherwise existing ones ReSharper has to offer. Code Analysis ReSharper 3.0 has more code analysis features than previous versions. For example here it tells me that...

Kind of a crazy name for a piece of software (in this politically correct world, the use of "screw" doesn't go over very well with some management) but a really great example of Open Source in action. I was hunting around for a wiki for our development documentation and standards. My first thought was...

Great stuff from the guys that make the cool tools, JetBrains anounces the release of their latest beta version of ReSharper 3.0. This release includes refactoring for C# and Visual Basic.NET now. The C# side has been beefed up so it gives you some code suggestions that you may or may not choose to implement...

About a week or so ago Mike Roberts posted a note that he was no longer going to be working in the .NET world as the Java world was taking over at his company. Mike is the author of many blog posts on setting up a development tree in .NET and these blog posts spawned a tool called Tree Surgeon. As Mike...

Stumbled over 3 different goodies for Team System and CodePlex that will be very valuable to me. Hopefully these will be useful to you too. CodePlex Source Control Client This is a command line tool which allows users to work offline (in the "edit-merge-commit" fashion). It's not as full featured as...

I mentioned we were getting a release of TreeSurgeon out that included 2005 and now 2008 support. The code is all checked in so if you're interested in getting it, go for it. The "official" release hasn't been put together yet for due to problems with the third party libraries and tools TS includes when...

I got an email from ScrumMaster Andrea about an update I should do to my Scrum Tools Roundup post . Andrea drew my attention to the Agilo for Scrum tool, an open source add-on for the Trac Project . The Trac project is a wiki/issue tracking system (written in Python, my #2 favourite language next to...

The Moth, aka Daniel Moth, a former MVP and now Microsoft UK dude posted a blog entry The ABCDEFGHI of setting up Visual Studio for Demos . In it he makes some good points about setting up Visual Studio when you're on the road to present. I totally agree with him on look and feel. I still use a white...

I've been using Omea Pro as my primary news reader for a long time now. It's one of the better ones IMHO as it let's me track RSS feeds and newsgroups (I don't use the mail integration). It's not as bloated as I found with RSS Bandit, chewing up memory all over the place, but it has its share of bulge...