The Daily Grind 584

I was out of the office for most of yesterday, so only a few links today. But I'll be lashed to my keyboard today, like Captain Ahab chasing the great white software...

Software

• SyncBack 3.2.7 - Freeware file backup and synchronization program; they also have a paid version with more features. (via Eric Brunsen)
• Tristana Writer - GUI editor for RSS and Atom feeds. 14-day trial, $25 to buy.
• SharpHSQL and PocketSharpHSQL version 1.0.2.4 - Another embedded database, this one with .NET and .NET CF versions, ported from a Java project.

Information

• Microsoft alters Visual Studio, SQL Server shipment plans - Various professional readers of tea leaves (this particular link is to ComputerWorld) suggest that the ship dates for VS2005 and SQL Server 2005 are slipping again, from "summer" to later in the year. Personally, I'm beginning to expect a Q4 release to manufacturing date to justify the 2005 moniker, and a very real chance that we won't see much product actually shipping until 2006. But like everyone else in punditland, I'm just guessing.

Community

• The Blog Cycle - Anil Dash points out some of the patterns that occur over and over in blogdom. Imagine my amusement at seeing him link back to a page that I used to maintain back when it was still possible to keep track of every single mainstream press mention of blogs. I do wish some of today's blogging blowhard's had Anil's sense of perspective.

Sponsor

• This edition of The Daily Grind is sponsored by .netCHARTING, who offers a fully functional free developer version of their high end .NET charting control for testing and development. Click here to download (WinForms and WebForms, no timeout)

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

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