The Daily Grind 538

By Mike Gunderloy
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

I think Apple may have finally hit a price point that causes me to park a Mac under my desk to play with.

Software

SourceGear announces Project "Allerton" - Allerton being a Linux/Solaris/MacOS client for Visual Studio Team Foundation.
AssemblyReflector v1.0.0.0 : An event-based Assembly Parsing Engine - Useful if you need to write code to grub around inside of .NET assemblies looking for members that contain a particular string, among other things. (via Darren Neimke)
Font Creator 5.0 - Spiffy-looking designer and editor for TrueType fonts. Shareware, $65 to register.
DbVisualizer 4.2 - Latest release of Minq Software's commercial ($99) "universal database tool". New features include Java 5 support this time around.
Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - Microsoft's tool to whack some of the most prevalent Windows infections. Probably worth carting around in your emergency tool kit.

MSDN Dev Chat on Zero or No Touch Deployment in the real world - Mark Levison, who has actually done it, is co-hosting a chat on February 17.
And some news from my Developer Central blog over on ADTmag.com: the RSS feed for that blog is now full-text, due to popular demand. You'll still need to visit the site to participate in discussions, and I hope you do.

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