Service Stack:    Opensource .NET and Mono REST Web Services framework. A modern fresh alternative to WCF. Code-first, convention-based, codegen-free.

FRAPI:   A High-level API framework that puts the “rest” back into RESTful. FRAPI automatically generates JSON, XML, PHP, and plain text versions of your data.

 DOOPHP:    Doo framework is one of the fastest, if not the fastest PHP framework available. It enables developers at all levels to rapidly develop robust web 2.0 applications.

gantter:    A FREE web-based project management tool. You can think of it as a web-based Microsoft Project. Store/Share in the Cloud, Google Docs integration and support for multiple languages.

PlanProjects:   Signup as a Project Manager or a Freelancer. Create and manage projects. Assign freelancers to your tasks. Enables project managers to work with fairly seamlessly with freelancers.

jsdo.it:   Share JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS. It also supports syntax highlighting and a real-time preview.

• SSMS Tools Pack: SQL Server Management Studio Add-in with variety of features including option to generate stored procedures automatically for CRUD operations.

• Shining Panda: Hosted Continuous Integration for Python.

• Cerberus: A lightweight and easy-to-use Continuous Integration Tool for Ruby.

• Exportizer: A free database export tool which allows to export data to file, clipboard, or printer. Exportizer works via BDE or ADO. It can convert DB, DBF, text, CSV to text, CSV, XLS, RTF, XML, HTML, DBF, INSERT statements.

I am struggling with stiffness in neck along with migraine from the last six years. It has worsened now. I got it X-Rayed a couple of times. The reports show signs of stiffness in the muscle spasms. Programmers have to sit for very long hours in front of PC and it demands more caffeine intake and junk food like Pizza and Burgers. My To-Do lists are impressive but of no help when the stiffness starts and migraine triggers. Trying to save a few bucks by not buying a comfortable chair and not joining a good Gym, I have wasted a lot of money buying medicines.

I am happy to add a nice feature in my upcoming application to automatically monitor and tune the health of database but I regret the same software is not available for me. May be some day a software developer gets equipped with a software which can automatically display health stats of the developer while he is writing code, eating pizzas and continuously glaring at the screen.

Well, I am an unknown personality of the industry but here are the neck pain stories of few personalities of the software industry you may be aware of:

Scott Hanselman

Mike Gunderloy

Paul Lockwood

Better late than never. Below is my daily diet and work-out routine started this month:

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• My first exposure to computers dates back to 1990. In my school we had computers as one of the compulsory subject. The class was once a week and it used to be the last class of the day. We were asked to line up and march towards the computer room. We were asked to take off our shoes and enter the room quitely as if Mr. Computer would get angry. In the computer room, there were PC XT computers with hercules (green display) monitors sitting on top of the CPU. I used to look at the keyboard mysteriously. Sometimes I used to press the ENTER or SCROLL LOCK button and waited in silence for the computer to speak to me. I had a picture in mind that computers can communicate with humans in their language as shown in a popular TV serial for kids.

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