The Daily Grind 829

Newborns suck up all the sleep in the house and keep it for themselves.

Software

• NUnit Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005 - Scott Bellware provides some handy snippets for test-driven development.
• Encyclopodia - Someone has figured out how to put the entire Wikipedia on an iPod. Amazing. (via Digg)
• eXpressApp Framework - The Developer Express folks have put out a CTP of a new framework for business application development in .NET.
• The Reanimator - Investigate regular expressions by turning them into graphs. Pretty but not sure how useful. But it does let you show off your CS degree. (via Roy Osherove)
• Erudition for Developers - Product to automatically create hyperlinked documentation for your departmental or enterprise applications including .NET, Java, SQL and other source code. Starts at $500/month.

Information

• Directory Of Feed Parsers - A list of RSS and ATOM parsers, with opinionated comments and ratings. (via Sam Ruby)
• MSBuild Task Tutorial: Label SourceSafe Project - How to make your own MSBuild task with C#.
• Security Training Modules - Labs and movies from the Microsoft patterns & practices folks.

Hardware

• Mystery Solved - If you want to bother to sign in with Passport and fill out a little quiz (answers 2, True, True, True), Microsoft promises to send you a free USB thumb drive (capacity unspecified). Click on the drive image to get started.

Sponsors

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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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