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The Daily Grind 728

By Mike Gunderloy
Monday, October 10, 2005

Too many deadlines, not enough time - but look at all this nifty software!

Software

Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 - I don't think I want my browsing quite on this much cutting-edge fun goodness, but maybe you do.
ASP.NET bugtrackers - Ivan Mitev offers a quick survey of the alternatives.
WFPad - Viewing/Editing Workflow's in XML - Little app for editing Windows Workflow Foundation stuff either graphically or in the raw XML. (via TheServerSide.NET).
Google Reader - Now Google is getting into the online RSS/newsreader business. Looks like their spin is that you find things by searching, subscribe, and then sort by "relevance," whatever that means.
LiveMarks - AJAX application to provide a live view of what's going on with del.ico.us bookmarks. Sort of like watching the geek hive mind at work.
C# Scripter: How to execute C# as batch files with my new utility - Jeffrey Palermo offers a command-line launcher for little C# utilities.
WindowsIdentity Debugger Visualizer for Visual Studio 2005 - Guarav Khanna offers another useful toy for VS 2005 users.
Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter - Tool to manage Scrum sprints using Project and Excel.
RadRails - Eclipse-based IDE for Ruby on Rails. (via James Avery)
Resource File Extractor - Jason Haley presents a little utility for extracting resources from .NET assemblies.

MSN AdCenter Pilot - Looks like you can apply to get involved in MSN's US ad network launch.

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