The Daily Grind 503

Ah, an impressionable lad interviewed me this morning about breaking into the technical writing field. It was so tempting to just fill his head full of nonsense.

Software

• A Grouping and Subtotaling Repeater for ASP.NET - Interesting display control if you're trying to do reporting online. (via Scott Hanselman)
• Aperio - Nifty commercial software company I hadn't noticed before. They make high-quality digitized software, and you can view some spiffy online demonstrations.

Community

• Wireless Innovation Contest - There are both commercial and student categories here, though it looks like the prizes are mainly of the "recognition" variety.
• Xena and Firefox, Opera, &c. - Xena is the MSDN content system. Andy Boyd reports that they'll be cross-browser compatible in the next release, despite the idiots in the data center who thought there was no need for that since 99.5% of their hits were from IE (because, of course, the site doesn't currently work right in other browsers). [Update: I should make it clear that "idiots" was my word, not Andy's...I've had far too many run-ins with data center folks to maintain a professional standard when writing about them.]

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

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