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The Daily Grind 713

By Mike Gunderloy
Monday, September 19, 2005

Kids are a great excuse for shooting off model rockets.

Software

ASP.NET Watermarker Module - Neat trick to easily identify code running on development or test servers.
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta - IE catches up to Firefox in builtin developer goodness.
Kids Programming Language - A free community endeavor from Morrison Schwartz. I'll be keeping an eye on this as my own kids get a bit older.
ExcelEverywhere - Convert Excel worksheets to HTML with embedded JavaScript so you can move them online. Online trial, $97 to purchase.
Project-On-Demand - Hosted online alternative to MS Project. One month free trial.
WSMQ 1.0 Beta 2 - Open Source Release - A new release from the Web Services Message Queue project.

The PocketMod - Cute little do-it-yourself paper PDA replacement. (via WorkHappy.net)

XML, Dynamic Languages, and VB - Some plans to let you type XML directly into VB code in VB 9.0. Oh joy.
LINQ looks good, but DLINQ scares me - Jon Galloway worries about code maintainability.
Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog - All the justification you could ever want for the upcoming Office 12 UI changes.
Early IIS7 Documentation now available - Run out of things to learn about yet? How about the next round of IIS? Links to the ops guide, technical reference, and more.
Portable CE 2.0 - Steve Makofsky shows how to put your own Windows CE emulator image on a USB device, complete with the ability to run existing binaries. Pretty sexy. Beware, though: it'll bounce existing network connections when it fires up or shuts down.
Ruby and Rails Bullet Points - Good overview for those who've heard of Ruby and Rails but don't know much more than the names.

Contests everywhere - Drazen Dotlic rounds up the various coding contests going on these days. Naturally, I hope you'll find time to enter mine, but look at all the others too. It's a fine time to be a coder with spare time.
Continuousintegration - Jason Yip is writing a book about continuous integration. You can join this Yahoo! group to preview drafts and offer feedback.

Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.