The Daily Grind 849 by Mike Gunderloy Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Some of my software is actively trying to get me, I think.

• Blog Mass Installer - Just in case you didn't think the spam mess could get any worse: here's a $197 tool to automate the building of thousands of spam blogs. Happy happy joy joy.
• AnkhSVN and a Monad SVN Provider? - Personally, I'm not gonna go poking around in my source code repository with some combination of crazy alpha and beta tools, but then, Scott Hanselman is more of a cutting-edge guy than I am. Looks like SVN access from Microsoft's next-generation shell may end up being pretty spiffy.
• Peeker - Image preview from Windows Explorer context menus. Free.
• ViEmu - This vi/vim editing add-in for Visual Studio now has its own brand new domain, and a new graphical cheat sheet and tutorial that you can download.
• Stylus Studio 2006 Release 2 XML Enterprise Edition - This suite of XML tools now features better EDI support, direct invocation of Web services from XQuery, support for the latest Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor, and more. Free trial download here, pricing from $795.

• How To: A Complete Terabyte File Server For About $500 - I don't know that I would go down to the level of junk hardware that Fred Langa used for files I really cared about (or run without some form of RAID), but you certainly can get a lot of storage for cheap these days.

• The Ultimate Asp.net 2.0 Security, Role, Membership and Profile Provider List V1.0 - A huge big ol' pile of useful links from Arno Nel.

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