The Daily Grind 397

By Mike Gunderloy
Tuesday, June 15, 2004

After our little bit of vacation, the preschool schedule is starting up again, so it's a short morning for me.

Software

NMock 1.1 - Details are still sketchy on this mock object package for .NET, and I haven't had time to dig in, but here's a new release.
FolderSync class for .NET - Detects differences between a pair of folders and raises an event for each difference.
Windows XP SP2 RC2 - Microsoft's press agency sent out e-mail last night saying that RC2 was out. The download page is still serving RC1 as far as I can tell.

001 - MSBuild status - Alex Kipman posts a status report on the progress of the MSBuild component of the next version of Visual Studio. Imagine a world in which every Microsoft team posted this info publicly...

A Few Final Comments About the Unit Testing Thing... - Peter Provost rounds up and comments on some of the blogosphere reaction to his petition for unit testing in all versions of VS2K5.
RSS advertising? Business opportunity? Scoble Readers Say No. - Pheedo discusses the reaction of Scoble's readers to ads in RSS feeds. One important point he's too polite to mention: the people who scream loudest about ads polluting the Internet are just a small fraction of the potential audience. Most people using the Internet don't have any lingering vision of it as a purely free volunteer medium.

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