The Daily Grind 636

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Software

• Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET - This one has hit release status; looks like a must-have if you're mixing .NET and Oracle. (via Wally McClure)
• XmlGrid - Display and edit XML data in a Visual Studio PropertyGrid control. Not sure how useful that really is, but it sure is an interesting hack.
• SQL Effects Clarity - Flexible tool for comparing SQL Server databases. 14-day trial, $139 license. (via Programmers' Heaven)

Hardware

• Google Stanford Hardware - This is all of Google, circa 1999. It's substantially less hardware than I have surrounding me in my stuffy little home office at the moment. Why aren't I rich? (via Ole Eichhorn)

Information

• CSS Zen Garden - I thought I'd plugged this one before, but I don't see it in my archives. This amazing site will give you an appreciation of all the ways that CSS can be used to dress up information on the Web. Fun to browse around even if you don't have the patience to apply such techniques yourself.

Community

• Is TechEd Value for your 3 X $$$$? - Sahil Malik joins those of us who think Tech Ed is not worth spending the money. Like computer books and software resellers, I think technical conferences are ultimately going to be simply killed by the Internet. They just don't make economic sense any longer.
• OneNote PowerToy Contest - Submit the winning toy, win a Tablet PC. (via John R. Durant)

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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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