Every now and then, as much of a .NET junkie that we've all or rather I've become, it is refreshing to take a look at the open source world for a change. No, NOT Codeplex! But I mean open platform and source. Whether it's playing with Ubuntu or some other flavor of Linux...
Who knows? You might get an idea or two...I blogged a bit about IIS 7.0 last year at: http://geekswithblogs.net/yowhann/archive/2006/10/28/95366.aspx. In IIS7.0, look at how IIS has evolved to take after Apache.
Well, so for .NET, you have memory profiler tools such as the CLR Profiler. Today's link is to that of a debugging and profiling suite on Linux, called Valgrind.
.NET technologies are awesome...but every now and then, it's great to play around. It becomes inspiration for enhancing your own development experience. For example, web application testing WatiN being inspired by Watir. Or Ruby On Rails inspiring SubSonic .NET as another example