The Daily Grind 383

Sorry about the day off; between being sick, attending the kids' end-of-preschool picnic, prenatal appointment, and grocery shopping, yesterday just sort of got away from me.

Software

• FindBugs, Part 1: Improve the quality of your code - Static analysis tool for Java classes and JAR files. You .NET folks can think of this as FxCop for Java.
• Manage spam with the IMF archive manager - Yesterday morning I was trying to figure out how best to inspect the messages archived by the new Exchange Intelligent Message Filter. Otherwise, it's impossible to decide whether you have the false positive level set correctly. An hour later James Webster posted this utility, which was just what I wanted. I love the Internet sometimes.
• Exchange 2003: Outlook Web Access Web Administration - Tool for administrators with multiple OWA servers to worry about. (via Tosh Meston)
• SQL Dev Pro 4.0 - Version control, schema and data scripting, SQL code searching, and other features for SQL Server developers. $99 shareware.
• Active Ports - Monitor open TCP/IP and UDP ports, shows you the owning process, and lets you shutdown anything you don't approve of. Free.
• Graphics Server .NET 2.0 Beta - Open beta of an excellent .NET charting tool.

Information

• Custom Calendar Providers for Outlook 2003 - Technique for stuffing arbitrary data into Outlook as a custom calendar, without mucking around in the object model. Includes sample providers for things like RSS, NNTP, and MSN Messenger messages.
• Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004 - Rob Caron explains how to get help working in the latest VS2K5 drop.

Mike Gunderloyy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.

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