NIC Labs’ developers have created several active open source projects:

CSS Spriter

Improve page performance by combining image resources into a single browser request using css sprites. This tool, written in Clojure, will recursively concatenate all PNG images into a single sprite image, and generate the appropriate CSS styles to display those images correctly. CSS Spriter allows either vertical or horizontal image layouts. A List Apart has more information on css sprites.

Hbase DSL

Hbase DSL is meant to help ease the pain of writing code for Hbase. Think of it as the JDBCTemplate for Hbase, because that is what I intend for this project to be.

Grant

Grant is an easy to use Ruby on Rails plugin for securing access to your Rails model objects. It provides a declarative method to specify rules for granting permission to perform CRUD operations on model objects.

Sporm

Traditionally SharePoint projects are hard to unit test, use weak typing, and require complicated XML to query for data. Sporm™ is specifically designed to simplify unit testing, enable strongly typed objects, and support LINQ access to SharePoint objects.