The Daily Grind 423

Summer thunderstorms and harvest time...must be almost county fair season.

Information

• RSS Traffic Burdens Publisher's Servers - Netcraft brings out the downside of RSS for a successful site. "Our hourly RSS surge has all the characteristics of a distributed DoS attack." Things would be helped immensely if RSS reader developers would have their tools check at a random number of minutes past the hour, instead of all slamming the same sites right on the hour.
• C# Express: Some sample projects - John Kennedy points to some work he's done for MSDN.
• Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case - I think the best way to characterize this is "Microsoft blinked." There was a very real possibility that they'd lose the trademark on Windows, so they opted to pay Lindows to go away instead.

Community

• What do we do with your feedback - Mikhail Arkhipov offers a glimpse at how feedback on VS2005 gets handled.

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

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