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Last Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled a beta version of WebMatrix, a free tool complementing the Web Platform, aimed at simplifying development of ASP.NET web applications.

Microsoft, previously bogged down (in my opinion) by the likes of MS Frontpage and the complex 1st version of Visual Studio, has gained much progression in it's web offerings, giving developers quite a respectable amount of tools (which are also easy to use) in recent years.

First impression

At the first glance, WebMatrix really feels the Windows 7 bundled Wordpad, with web/code development features. However,  familiarity and simplicity is definitely in line with ...

Google recently released a little gem, called GoogleCL, a python-bsaed, command-line interface (CLI) for it's data APIs.

About the Tool

From the Google Open Source blog,

GoogleCL is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services. It streamlines tasks such as posting to a Blogger blog, adding events to Calendar, or editing documents on Google Docs.

Although it's more targeted at power users, I feel that non-power users or non-programming oriented users should not dismiss this CLI tool.

In my personal opinion, although Google does have excellent interfaces for their services, using this tool would make ...

I attended Day 1 of the WebCamps^#1 (4th June), and am quite impressed by Visual Studio (VS) 2010's features and quite keen to start trying out ASP.net MVC2 "programming methodology".

I must admit, I once kept away from the suite mainly due to the non-semantic (and bloated) HTML markup generation. Now that it's been vastly improved, coupled with the focus on MVC (Model-View-Controller) all wrapped in an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), it is probably time to re-visit it.

Furthermore, as a strong opensource supporter, hearing that Microsoft embraced jQuery and packaged it in VS2010 was quite ...