The Daily Grind 610

This issue of the Daily Grind is pre-recorded. If all goes well, it's being automatically published while I'm on a train somewhere in the Columbia River gorge. Current news coverage will pick up on Friday.

Software

• Zanebug v1.5.0 Beta Released - With this release, the Zanebug unit testing tool gets Visual Studio .NET integration.

Information

• Technical Overview of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) - Excellent info if, like me, you need to deploy this beast and you're wondering what you're getting yourself into.
• Data Crunching - "Solve Everyday Problems using Java, Python, and more", the latest Pragmatic Bookshelf volume. This one is by Greg Wilson, and it covers lots of useful techniques for quick and dirty data analysis. I read an early draft, and it's good stuff.
• Longhorn Developer Preview (5048) Screenshot Gallery 1 - Paul Thurrott has some screenshots up, and it does look like the much-ballyhooed sidebar went to sleep with the fishes. Glad I didn't spend any time learning how to develop for it.
• A Quick Peek at Longhorn - From PCMag. So quick, in fact, as to be utterly superficial. At least, I hope there's more to Longhorn than this.

Community

• The BizTalk Wiki - A new site for resources of all types on BizTalk, hosted by PluralSight.

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

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