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The
Daily Grind 682
By Mike Gunderloy
Friday, August 5, 2005
And now I can hear a power supply fan failing. What is this, National
Bad Hardware Week?
Software
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Free TV Player 1.8 - The "free"
refers not to this software, but to the fact that it can tune in to 800+
streaming TV channels from around the world, assuming you've got the
bandwidth. 30-day trial, $29.98.
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ColorPic 4 - Nifty
spiffy free color picker for the Web or UI designer.
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NMath Analysis
- New .NET library with classes for function minimization, root-finding, and
linear programming. I would have killed for this when I was doing my IE
degree. Free trial, $295 license.
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NewsGator Enterprise
Server - Make NewsGator the backbone of your organization's internal RSS
plumbing with this version.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions for WinFX Beta 1 - Bits to make it
easier to work with WinFX, XAML, WPF, and WCF using VS2K5 Beta 2. Whew, hope
that's as clear to you as it is to me.
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SourceGrid - Open Source C# Grid Control - As in "written in C#". Quite
flexible for a free control.
Information
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Surprise
- E. W. Bachtal takes a good look at the
SpreadsheetGear component that I mentioned a couple of days ago, and
compares it to some of the other spreadsheet components out there. I love it
when something I post triggers this sort of in-depth look by someone who
knows the field.
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101 Samples for Visual Studio 2005 - VB and C# samples showing off lots
of new features. Despite the name there are only 50 samples so far, but
Microsoft promises the other 51 are coming.
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Microsoft Appoints Kevin Turner as Chief Operating Officer - Microsoft
hires a new COO away from Wal-Mart. Brace yourself for a wave of jokes
involving poor quality and sending jobs to China.
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How-To-Select an Obfuscation Tool for .NET - Remember the How-To-Select
Guides project that I'm the Executive Editor for? We've had some production
teething pains, but I'm happy to announce that our second Guide is now
available for reading online. A PDF version will be along presently.
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The Thrill and
Agony of Working From Home - Christopher Hawkins offers some advice on
maintaining a viable business from home. I definitely don't agree with some
of his advice - I work from home because I want to spend the day with
my family, not so I can shut myself up away from them - but many people will
find his point of view useful.
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Integrating vil Code Metrics Into An NAnt / CruiseControl.NET Build -
Robin Curry continues his series on Code Metrics and .NET builds.
Community
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The Power
and Impact of Blogging - Sam Gentile spends the night reading blogs and
comes away with the realization that books and conferences are increasingly
superfluous.
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Communities and Blogs - eicar comes up with a big list of blogging
sites. You could spend your life reading this stuff now.
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Project FAZR - The folks at
Project FAZR (the democratically self-organizing ISV) now have their own
community blog server.
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The Audience loves to applaud itself - James Robertson casts a jaundiced
eye at some of the self-backpatting of the open source movement.
Sponsor
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This edition of The Daily Grind is sponsored by
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who offers a fully functional free developer version of their
high end
.NET charting control for
testing and development.
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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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