Silverlight tools for the Mac
Just reading about the efforts to produce an Eclipse-based Silverlight development platform for the Mac - quite cool.
I have to think though, perhaps the effort would have been better spent creating a port of Blend for the Mac... it seems to me that only a tiny minority of developers would opt for Eclipse over Visual Studio; whereas I'd guess nearly all designers would prefer to work natively within MacOS.
I can kind of understand why they've done it, but I can only hope there's another project underway with that Blend port...
ReSharper 5 – and I thought 4 was good
Reading this preliminary list of the upcoming features of ReSharper 5, it makes me wonder how any .NET developer could ever be without a tool like this. Among the favorites would have to be Project Refactorings, and Call/Value Tracking. Genius.
Having used the refactoring-and-[insert feature here]-anaemic Flex Builder 3 at length on a few recent projects, life just seems to get better and better in Visual Studio land.
