This is an interessting video about the plugin eclipse4SL from Soyatec.

This plugin allows Eclipse / Java developers to build RIA with Silverlight and collaboration between Web Designers, .NET Developers and Java Developers.

With a very nice timing Microsoft team just published ASP.NET MVC RC !

We started over Christmas a migration of our .NET French Portal, Tech Head Brothers, to ASP.NET MVC. We had lots of fun and a great experience to be able to do collocated pair programming over that time.

As announced on the jQuery blog, “jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation”, jQuery for it third anniversary goes to release 1.3 with the following features: <li>Sizzle: A sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine. </li> <li>Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist. </li> <li>jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling. </li> <li>HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending. </li> <li>Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation. </li> <li>No More Browser Sniffing: Using feature detection to help jQuery last for many more years to come.</li>

In my development process I do use what Rob is describing in his post “Crazy Talk: Reducing ORM Friction” with some slight differences.

For example I developed Tech Head Brothers portal this way, as Innoveo Solutions web site. I use TDD and Domain Driven Development and I keep the mapping as one of the last step for my implementation.