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The Daily Grind 745

By Mike Gunderloy
Wednesday, November 2, 2005

I don't know about you, but the new Microsoft "Live" announcement has me stunningly unimpressed. Where's the beef?

Software

WinZip® 10.0 Now Available - Yup, new version is out now.
The Beta 1 Refresh of the IE Developer Toolbar - Yummy goodness for people who are still using IE.
Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 - Another project moving along towards completion.

Visual Studio and .NET 2.0 Breaking Changes from Beta 2 to RTM - Summary from TheServerSide.NET with a link back to the full Microsoft document.
REAL Software Announces REAL SQL Server 2006 - Just in case you don't already have enough choices for multi-user relational databases.
AdventureWorks OLTP Database Diagram - If you're working with SQL Server 2005, this is worth grabbing. Available in HTML and Visio formats.
Microsoft Previews New Windows Live and Office Live Services - In other words, Microsoft takes a random heap of Web sites and services and rebrands them as "Windows" and "Office" to distract the Web 2.0 people. These are about as much Windows and Office as near beer is beer.

Stuff - David Ing goes a bit overboard with that whole multiple monitor thing.
idera 5iQ - SQL Server 2005 trivia game with cash prizes.
16th Annual Software Development Jolt Product Excellence Awards - Your chance to nominate for what might be the most prestigious software awards out there.

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