The Daily Grind 690

It was a long night of restless children. Fortunately Disney Toons runs all night long.

Software

• CruiseControl.NET 1.0 RC1 Released - Amazing, an open source application poised to release version 1.0. Big changes include a rewritten CCTray app and native MSBuild support.
• dBASE PLUS 2.6 - Heck, I didn't even know dBASE was still around, but here it is releasing a new version.
• Announcing JAAJAX Lib 0.1alpha - An AJAX Library - Free AJAX code from Jay Kimble.
• Add attributed annotations to your documentation with NDoc - Neil Cowburn shows how to add extra tags to C# XML documentation and then format them with NDoc.
• Advanced Installer 3.1.1 - New version of Caphyon's tool for building MSI files. Trial download, $249.

Information

• 60 days till we RTM Visual Studio 2005 - Yes, the clock is ticking. And buried in this blog entry is a note that "we dropped design time support for IA64". I didn't know that - glad I wasn't planning on moving to IA64 myself.
• Composite UI Application Block Hands on Labs - More content from the Patterns & Practices Group at Microsoft. (via Peter Provost)

Community

• How to be a PM at Microsoft (and how to deal with PMs) - Paul Vick says this is humor but anyone who has actually worked at Microsoft will wonder about that.

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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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