Though not completely agreeing with Osherove's post, this seems like an interesting point to start a great discussion (at least as a reference to some great projects). Here's his table of coolness/uncoolness:
| Hot | Not |
| Castle, ActiveRecord, NHibernate | DataSets, Dataset Designer, Entity Framework, MS Application Blocks |
| MVC,NUnit,MonoRail | Web Forms, SCSF, VSTS, MSTest |
| XP, TDD, Scrum | MSF Agile, MSF For CMMI |
| Evolutionary Design and Development | Big Design Up Front |
| Ruby + IronRuby, Python + IronPyton, DLR, Silverlight(?) | ? |
| OR\M (NHibernate, LLBLGen etc..) | DLinq, Data Access Block, DataSets, Plain ADO. NET |
| Open Source (Mono, SourceForge) | Application Blocks, CodePlex |
| MVC and MVP (RoR, MonoRail..) | Web Forms, CAB, Smart Client Factory |
| CVS, SVN | VSS, VSTS Source Control |
| Build Automation and CI (CI Factory, NAnt, FinalBuilder, CruiseControl..) | Team Build |
| TDD and Unit Testing NUnit, MbUnit, RhinoMocks, NMock, TypeMock | MSTest for unit testing, VSTS |
| Subtext, DasBlog, WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, FeedBurner | Microsoft MSN Spaces, Community Server(?) |
| Simplicity in Design | P&P |
| Working at Google | Working at MS |
| Google Gears | Smart Client, MS Ajax |
| .NET 3.X (WF, WPF. Silverlight) | .NET 2.0 |
| DI, IoC, Spring for .NET | Object Builder |
| Conferences: OSCon, RubyCon, Code Camps, DevTeach.. | VSLive, TechEd, DevConnections.. |

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