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By Mike Gunderloy
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics. |
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By Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, September 04, 2003
- Woody Leonhard says there are already exploits on the Web for a couple of those Office security holes I mentioned yesterday. That changes the picture a bit. At this point, I no longer recommend holding off; if you're running Office 2000 or Office XP, visit the Office Update site and get yourself patched.
- Borland, IBM team for .NET apps - Bundling deals ship DB2 with C#Builder and vice versa. I take this as a sign of how well the underlying .NET architecture is catching on; you've got two sometime-rivals of Microsoft collaborating on packages that make use of Microsoft's infrastructure.
- Handy Backup - $30 app to backup data to Zip files, FTP sites, or CD-RW.
- XMLSPY 2004 - Looks like Altova has upgraded their high-end XML editing suite again. I'll have to dig in a bit and see what's new.
- Automated Deployment Services 1.0 - New set of bits from Microsoft to help deploy Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 remotely on to bare metal servers. Also includes a remote script execution framework for use after deployment.
- Full-featured Automatic Argument Parser - Another command-line parsing class for .NET. This one makes good use of attributes to set things up in a natural way.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.