The Daily Grind 913 by Mike Gunderloy Tuesday, June 27, 2006

It would be nice if this heat wave ends before the computers are reduced to a pile of slag.

• Microsoft Office 2007 Test Drive - Try it out in your browser instead of installing the whole darned thing.
• Sparkle Microcontent Viewer - Browser-based tool to ferret out microcontent in Web pages. More details here.
• Information Anywhere Suite - Sybase is promising a secure, scalable mobile software platform.
• FxCop 1.35 - New drop of this .NET code analysis tool.
• FileHelpers 1.5.0 - New version of this free library for working with fixed and delimited records from .NET.

• The Vietnam of Computer Science - Ted Neward pronounces Object Relational Mapping a quagmire, at length.
• Some Thoughts on WinFS - Dare Obasanjo throws in a few thoughts in a rather more honest blog posting than the one that came out of the WinFS team on Friday.
• What's Been Yanked From Vista, And When - CRN details the decline and fall.

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