Stuff You (I) Should Know

The following is a list of APIs and tools which I consider the current state of the art in .NET development (though not exclusively .NET) and that I really should know a lot more about. This should pretty much be complete right now, though I have a nagging feeling I missed one.

• OpenRasta
  http://trac.caffeine-it.com/openrasta/wiki/Doc
• ASP.NET MVC 2
  http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc/
  http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/matthijs/ASPNET-MVC-2-Ninja-Black-Belt-Tips-by-Scott-Hanselman/
• SparkView
  http://sparkviewengine.com/documentation/syntax
• Castle
  http://www.castleproject.org/activerecord/documentation/v1rc1/index.html
  http://gojko.net/2008/11/04/dependency-injection-with-castle-windsor-video/
  http://using.castleproject.org/display/IoC/Home
  http://using.castleproject.org/display/IoC/Fluent+Registration+API
  http://www.castleproject.org/castle/download.html
  http://api.castleproject.org/
  http://blog.coreycoogan.com/2009/11/06/castle-windsor-tutorial-in-asp-net-mvc/
• NHibernate
  http://nhforge.org/
  http://community.jboss.org/wiki/NHibernateforNET
  http://www.nhforge.org/doc/nh/en/index.html
  http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/archive/2008/04/01/your-first-nhibernate-based-application.aspx
  http://www.ayende.com/hibernating-rhinos.aspx
  http://nhforge.org/wikis/howtonh/your-first-nhibernate-based-application.aspx
• MvcContrib
  http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/Wikipage
  http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/releases/view/43560
• NUnit
  http://www.nunit.org/
• Ruby On Rails
  http://ironruby.net/About
• Fluent Programming
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface
• NerdDinner
  http://nerddinnerbook.s3.amazonaws.com/Intro.htm
  http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExtendingNerdDinnerExploringDifferentDatabaseOptions.aspx
  http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExtendingNerdDinnerAddingMEFAndPluginsToASPNETMVC.aspx
  
• Managed Extensibility Framework "MEF"
  http://mef.codeplex.com/
  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/mef
  http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/category/MEF.aspx

The following list is not complete, won't be for some time and may require time travel to keep reasonably accurate - list of best practice advice/docs:

• http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid/archive/2009/04/01/asp-net-mvc-best-practices-part-1.aspx#prg
  

And some videos which I hope will be helpful:

• MVC
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6197789949116343290#

Footnote: This needs reorganising into a list of tech, each with a list of links and FAQ/Quickstarts.