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The Daily Grind 811

By Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, February 2, 2006

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Software

Visual Studio 2005 Code Smippets - Some extra code snippets for the C# developer, straight from Microsoft.
Firefox 1.5.0.1 - Security and stability release that fixes some memory leaks. That would certainly be nice.

Code Coverage with NCover - The NCover code coverage tool is getting lots of press this week. Here it is getting integrated into the SharpDevelop IDE.
Commerce Server 2006: Core Systems Overview - A nice rundown from Jeff Lynch. There are some big changes coming here.
Responding to Intrusions - I just spent a good chunk of time helping a customer deal with a breakin on one of their servers. This page from CERT was pretty helpful in planning for what they should have done.

On the Persistence of Bad Design... - Ole Eichhorn rants about DOS syntax. Such rants don't change anything but they're fun anyhow.


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