Software Testing

Sad to say, this is often the neglected portion of software development.

Here are some resources:

TestingReflections

SearchSoftwareQuality

Yahoo Agile-Testing

ThoughtsOnQAEngineering

OpenOffice Base

Native database for OpenOffice suite, OpenOffice Base

It is developed based on an open-source java, SQL database system, HSQLDB

One of the cool feature is user can create form, extracting data from various databases based on queries onto a single form

ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight

ArcGIS is one of the few who have jumped onto the Silverlight bandwagon

ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight
Still in beta though

Microsoft Virtual Earth for Silverlight

The long awaited integration of Virtual Earth and Silverlight is finally here

Virtual Earth home

Here are some early preview of what it can do from blogs:
Synergist
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist Blog

Microsoft Research

In the world of microsoft ... here are some sites to stay in touch:

Microsoft Research

And in the area of search, here are Microsoft's 2 new research:

GeoLife
Location based social networking service based on Virtual Earth

RenLiFang
Mine online data to track human relationships

HealthCare

IT has its tentacles all over in various industries. HealthCare is one of them

OpenHealth Natural Lanaguage Processing

Microsoft Amalga

OpenOffice.org (aka OOo) Java Libraries

Here are some of the available java libraries for those who are developing their applications on top of OpenOffice:

ODF Toolkit: De-facto by OASIS

jOpenDocument: Promising one ...

The official site (by OASIS) for OpenDocumentFormat is @OpenDocument.