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The Daily Grind 548

By Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, January 27, 2005

The amount of enthusiasm I can dredge up for a new product appears to be inversely proportional to the length of the beta process.

Software

SyntaxEditor .NET control - Excellent commercial code editing control for Windows Forms. I reviewed it in a bit more depth over at the Developer Central blog today.

Microsoft 64-bit Summary - Ryan Storgaard pulls together a great set of pointers to Microsoft's products and plans in this area.
Internal Coding Guidelines - Brad Abrams shares some guidelines from his C# work. Take them as a starting point, not as stone tablets to be worshipped.
The Difference It Makes - Melanie Spiller explains why punctuation rules really are important. If you write anything for other people, you ought to dip into her blog.
A couple of days ago I stated that Phrack started in 1999. Um, well, actually Phrack #1 came out in 1985. Thanks to Dan Moniz for pointing out this indication of impending senility on my part.
Google Meme Observatory - Handy search links for checking overused phrases in Google. (via Google Blogoscoped)

A concise summation of the last 4 hours - Gregg reports a support experience that most of us will find all too familiar.
Extprog - New mailing list to discuss extensible programming, as suggested by Greg Wilson's article Extensible Programming for the 21st Century.

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