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The Daily Grind 467

By Mike Gunderloy
Friday, September 24, 2004

You know, I am getting just a bit crabby about MSDN software that's only on download instead of in the monthly shipments.

Software

GDI Scan - Tool to find vulerable versions of the GDI+ library. With exploit code starting to circulate, it's critical to get this one patched.
Bluebit .NET Matrix Library - Object-oriented linear algebra library for .NET. Trial download available.
ANN: Optimized automatic control binder is out - and its fast! - Roy Osherove provides an attribute-based solution for runtime data binding to ease code typing.

SlickSteel S1 Stainless Steel Mouse Pad - Just in case you've run out of other parts of your computer to upgrade.

Web Services Complexity - Eric Newcomer joins the discussion of the WS-* stack and related matters.
Team System Codenames - A Guide for the Perplexed - Having trouble remembering which is Okracoke and which is Currituck? Help is at hand.
Windows Mobile Development Tool Support Matrix - An attempt to sort out which of Microsoft's tools can be used to build software for which mobile platforms. This area is a real mess with poor messaging, so this page is a help indeed. (via Neil Enns)
Former Dot-Com Commerce One Eyes Closure - Remember Commerce One? They used to be worth $20 billion back when we were all insane. Now they're down to their last $700,000 and expect to go belly-up without paying suppliers or shareholders. Keep this in mind before you invest too much in SOA or any other Next Big Thing technology.

Calling Microsoft MVPs and .NET Book authors - If you're one or the other, read this blog entry to get a free copy of the Graphics Server .NET component, which is a pretty spiffy charting library.

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