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Interface is a collection of rich interface components which utilizes the lightweight JavaScript library jQuery. With this components you can build rich client web applications and interfaces with the same simplicity as writing JavaScript with jQuery.

The collection is dual licensed with the MIT license and the GPL, which basically means you can use it for free for both non-commercial and commercial usage as long as you keep the copyright notice in each of Interface's JavaScript source file.

This is a nice set plugins for jQuery. If you have a second, run through some of the demos: http://interface.eyecon.ro/demos/?page=demos

In particular, the drag/drop and sortables look to be really well done. I also like the option of building a package with just the items you want to use.

Apparently I need to do a little more research before posting. According to http://twitter.com/red_square/status/3602352528 this project has been replaced by jQuery.UI.

I would like to have a very lightweight ASP.NET MVC site which includes removing as many of the usual HttpModules as possible and disabling session state. However when I try to do this, I get the following error:

The SessionStateTempDataProvider requires SessionState to be enabled.

I've disabled session state in web.config:

<sessionState mode="Off" />

I understand that ASP.NET MVC uses session state for TempData, but I don't need/want TempData - I just want to disable session state. Help!

Saw this via a Jeff Atwood Tweet: http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/3599864470

Looks like there is a pretty simple work around, but still seems like a flaw to require Session state OOTB.

Update: More information on a work around: http://billrob.com/archive/2009/07/15/asp-net-mvc-without-sessionstate.aspx

Update 2: Brad Wilson followed up on twitter saying this has been resolved in MVC 2 Preview 1.

Tokbox is likely the most used tool by my team that is not written by Telligent or Microsoft. They now have built in support for http://etherpad.com/ which should make it even more useful.

Of course if Tokbox is taking feature requests, my #1 request would be not installing a new version without my permission.

The MongoDB team is very happy to announce that we have released MongoDB version 1.0.0.

MongoDB 1.0.0 is production ready for single master, master/slave and replica pair environments.  While there are many more features that people want and that we are working on, 1.0 is very stable and the code base has been used in production for over 18 months.

If you have never used mongoDB, I highly recommend you download it and give it a try.

I haven't done much more than kick the tires on it with python, but so far it has been very impressive.

Good news everyone!  The Dropbox iPhone app was officially submitted to the iTunes store last week and now we’ve got to play the waiting game.  Since all of you have been playing the waiting game for far longer than we have (and secrets, secrets are no fun), we’ve decided to give you a sneak peek at some of the features our app will be packing once our benevolent masters at Apple approve it:

This looks like it is very nicely put together. I will definitely be downloading it once it is available.

Not sure how often I will use, but it is nice to have the option.

Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. We launched in July 2008 and we've been steadily growing and adding features.

We love sharing thoughts, photos, audio, and files with our friends and family, but we didn't like how hard it was... so we made a better way.

That's posterous. We're super excited to see what happens when blogging becomes as easy as email, and we hope you enjoy posterous as much as we do. Thanks for trying it.