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The Daily Grind 590

By Mike Gunderloy
Wednesday, March 30, 2005

I really shouldn't complain about hail in March. I'm sure that's what made it snow yesterday.

Software

Antique Software: Turbo Pascal v5.5 - Download it an enjoy, courtesy of Borland. Ah, for a simpler world. (via Adi Oltean)
CodeTranslator: Free Code Translation From VB.NET <-> C# - Free, online, and color-coded. Not perfect, but it'll point you in the right direction. (via Chris Sells)
CITA RSS Aggregator - Yetanother RSS aggregator, this one with popup alerts driven by keywords, among other features. (via Lockergnome)
Process Tamer - Automatically lower the priority of any process that has the temerity to suck down all of the CPU cycles on your computer.

There's No Such Thing As Just One Application - Craig Andera points out one reason why software always takes longer to write than you think.
CLR: Threat or Menace? - The inimitable Joe Celko rants a bit about the dangers of turning application developer types loose in precious databases. (via Steve Hebert)

MSN Video Downloads - New service of downloadable video content for smartphones and other Windows Mobile devices. Free and subscription content. Site looks like crap in Firefox though.

TechEd Video #3 - Drink the TechEd KoolAid - Scott and Rory are still doing wacky unofficial TechEd promo videos.

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