The Daily Grind 664

My four-year-old recommends Cactus Bruce and the Corporate Monkeys.

Software

• Introducing the Shareware Starter Kit - Visual Studio 2005 sample application for shareware authors. Would have been nice if it had hooks to common shareware registration services, though.
• X-develop Professional 1.1 Preview - This alternative .NET IDE is adding a cross-platform GUI designer, able to handle WinForms, GTK#, AWT, and Swing, as well as other improvements.
• Ocelluz - These folks claim to have a revolutionary and patented solution for fast free-text searching in SQL databases.
• Knowledge Base 1.75 - The software developer's repository that I mentioned yesterday is offering a 20% discount to Larkware readers. Contact sales@ozmosys.net.au and mention Larkware to get the special $19.95 price when you register.
• Download Omea 2.0 Release Candidate - JetBrains is just about to release a new version of their RSS (and other stuff) reader.
• Alchemi - This .NET grid computing framework has released their 1.0 beta version, with fresh documentation.

Information

• Transcripts for the MSDN Designing .NET Class Libraries chats - Now if they'd only do transcripts for the talks themselves.

Community

• Eric's Advice For First-Time Technical Presenters - Eric Lippert has some good advice.

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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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