The Daily Grind 645

Spring is finally in the air here, now that it's only a week until summer.

Software

• Shavlik HFNetChkPro 5.1 - Shavlik's commercial patch-management solution is moving beyond Microsoft products to support FireFox, RealPlayer, and various Adobe products as well.
• DataDirect XQuery™ Beta Program - Now open for registration.
• VB's *My* for C# Developers - As if we really needed a That class.
• IronPython 0.7.6 - Another alpha build of Microsoft's Python for .NET.
• OpenSolaris - Well, if you're really interested in Sun's Solaris operating system, now you can get a big chunk of it as open source.
• IconPackager - Commercial app to change all of the system icons on your Windows XP/2000/ME/98 PC at one fell swoop.
• Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP - New digital camera software for Windows XP SP2.

Information

• StrikeIron U.S. Census Information Premium Web Service - StrikeIron has added a boatload of census data to their already-extensive array of charge-per-use Web services.
• Overloading Operators in VB.NET 2.0 - Paul Kemmel explains how it works.

Community

• 11 Clients You Need To Fire Right Now - Christopher Hawkins offers some advice on which consulting clients to throw back into the pond.

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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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