The Daily Grind 560

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Software

• Foxit PDF Reader - Free reader for PDF documents. (via Kevin Dente)
• The Hula Project - New open source mail/calendaring project that plans to make full use of Web standards for a rich client interface. We'll see.
• Enterprise Library Logging - Rolling File Sink - An excellent addition to the Enterprise Library: a logging file whose size you can limit (by rolling over into a new file based on size or date). (via Tim Shakarian)

Information

• Winner of the Developer.com Product of the Year 2005: Development Utility - I have to point to everything that Developer.com asks me to write; it's the rules :)

Rants

• IE7 - I was going to file this under "information," but really, there's not a lot of information involved. Microsoft is planning to ship something called Internet Explorer 7.0, it will go into beta this summer (which in Microsoft time means "by the end of September"), and it will include security improvements. It's also mentioned in a press release which adds no more detail. Microsoft could live up to what it's said so far by simply licensing the NetCraft anti-phishing toolbar and changing the IE version number. As far as I can tell from the announcements, Microsoft is simply taking the usual round of security upgrades and patches that would go into a service pack and calling it a new version (I expect with cosmetic changes at all). If that's what IE7 amounts to, I expect that people will be very much disappointed. They need to leapfrog Firefox in areas like plugin extensibility, standards support, and tabbed browsing to avoid becoming a laughingstock at this point.

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

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