Regarding what Don Box wrote about spending 100$ for good ideas.

I’ll try to spend my 100$ for my own personal needs, although they do not cover all the points Don wrote. I’ll make the same notations as the author.

50$ = 1.1 Invest resources in dynamic languages. I love the idea of writing code and not have to compile everything again, deploy, etc. Code that just works, and maybe later compiled for performance purposes. Personally I would like to have .DLL files as two regions (one with source code and one with compiled code) and be able to change code directly in the file.

25$ = 1.2 A standardized language for UI design and UI processes. XAML&WF is close but not adopted by others. HTML&Javascript shows its limits with Ajax.

10$ = 2.6 Open BizTalk to scripting because deployment of complex project is not easy. Minor changes should be done without the need to redeploy all the solution.

5$ = 2.7 A Windows integrated code editor which does auto complete for all kind of dynamically added references (COM, WebService, DLL) .No need to “Add reference”, the editor just highlight if the code you wrote is compliant to the references. This should generate script .DLL files which simply work. 

10$ = 4.1 Develop by Hi-Rest the basis for a standard interface through which applications could easily use a document management system developed by anyone who respects the imposed standards. Make this Hi-Rest accessible to others and integrate in NTFS, WinFS, etc.

Waiting for Don’s spending...