Tools, inspiration and technologies that have helped improve N2. The best ideas are all snatched. Links organized in chronological order (these are not sites running N2)

• NHibernate - a really sweet object persistance framework
• TinyMCE html editor - de facto wysiwyg html editor
• jQuery - a javascript library
• EPiServer - the CMS I work with most of the days
• FAMFAMFAM - a free library of delicious icons
• Antti Kemppainen Photography - nice piture on the start page
• NUnit & Rhino Mocks - maintaining the quality of N2 CMS
• Castle's Windsor Container - simplifying the framework
• NDepend - static dependency analyzer