The Daily Grind 534

By Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, January 6, 2005

14 degrees with a stiff wind is just too darned cold.

Software

Navicat - MySQL GUI for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Not free, but looks well done. (via Gadgetopia)
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) - I'll have more to say about this next week, I'm sure, but here's the download. Note that you can skip the rude interrogation as to whether you are a software pirate by telling it to continue the process and then "NO" as to whether it should snoop around your machine.
Tail.net - The Unix Tail Command for Windows - A simple console utility banged out in .NET in ten minutes.

Gates Taking a Seat in Your Den - Bill Gates gives an interview to CNet in which he says that those in favor of intellectual property reform are "communists." I have more to say about this over at my ADTmag.com blog.
.Net Compact Framework: Versioning, Strong Names and the Global Assembly Cache – Part 2 - Steven Pratschner has prepared an excellent guide here, highlighting the area in which assembly loading in the CF differs from the desktop product.

This SOA hype is getting out of hand - Frans Bouma saves me the trouble of writing this rant.
How do you become an independent consultant and get contracts? - Matt Raible writes about the joys of the consulting lifestyle. Check out the comments for other points of view.

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