The Daily Grind 891

by Mike Gunderloy
Friday, May 26, 2006

A light ending to the week. Enjoy the holiday, if you actually get one!

DayPilot - Open source Outlook-like calendar control for ASP.NET.
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats (Beta 2) - Maybe the most important part of the new round of betas. These are the bits that let you open Office 2007 documents in older versions of Office.

Samsung Q30-SSD Flash Solid State Laptop - A bit light on hard drive size, only available in Korea, but...yum. (via Tate Needham)

My Essential PC Application List - Jason York just rebuilt a laptop for PHP/Apache/MySQL development and kept track of what he installed. Might be a few apps there worth checking out.

How NOT to Lead Geeks - This one is getting lots of linky-love lately, and no wonder - who doesn't want to be told that management is a bunch of stupid tools?
IDE Feature Request: The Yagni Development Assistant - Possibly the "Clippy" technology can be used for something reasonable after all.

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