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The Daily Grind 842

By Mike Gunderloy
Monday, March 20, 2006

I think it's finally time to start planting a few things in our garden, an activity I have been sorely missing for months.

Software

Discussion Board 2.1 - .NET 2.0 discussion software with a large variety of features. You can play with it here, or license a copy for $200.
New Version of the WinFxProgrammer ASP.NET HTTP Compression Module - This looks like a nice flexible ASP.NET 2.0 way to handle compression.
ExamDiff Pro - File and folder comparison tool with lots of configurability. Trial downloads here, pricing from $35.
Enterprise Library Integration Pack: First Look - Colin Coller is working on hosting the Enterprise Library Configuration Console inside of Visual Studio.

Slipstreaming SATA/RAID Drivers - How to make your life installing Windows on modern hardware a bit easier, especially if you don't own a working floppy any longer. (via Rolando Ramirez)
Team Foundation Planning Guide and Team Foundation Administrator's Guide - Information to go with the RTM version.
Don’t change a TFS database by hand; How I got myself in real trouble - A cautionary tale from Marcel de Vries.
Fun With Generics - Adventures in using .NET 2.0 syntax to build singleton classes.
Recording Your Attention: Spying on Yourself - I'm still pretty skeptical that this whole "attention" thing (recording all the sites you visit and places you click) is really as important as its proponents say, but this article has reasonably simple steps to set up Firefox, PHP, and MySQL to track your own attention if you want to start investigating. And heck, I was skeptical about plenty of other things, too. (via Alex Barnett)

DotNetCharity - Site to help sell .NET-related products and services that donate part or all of their revenues to charity. (via Rob Caron).
Team Hanselman and Diabetes Walk 2006 - And speaking of good causes, here's another one.

Qios.DevSuite :: The Advanced .Net Components Library

QIOS Pelican is the easy way to maintain your mailing projects. It's FREE to download and FREE to use!

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