The Daily Grind 922 by Mike Gunderloy Monday, July 10, 2006

Oh boy, another Monday, and already the e-mail is piling up.

• OmniPeek Personal - Packet capture and network analysis tool with all sorts of spiffy displays and expert analysis options. Free for personal use.
• ELMAH for ASP.NET 2.0 - I hadn't realized this excellent error-logging tool for ASP.NET had been rebuilt to work without issues in ASP.NET 2.0 apps. Good news, and still free.
• .netCHARTING 4.0 - New version of this super-spiffy charting engine.
• TeamDirection Project for SharePoint - Project Management software that uses SharePoint as its backend. 15-day trial download is here, licensing from $129.99 per user.
• BI Documenter - Tool for documenting Microsoft SQL Server & Analysis Services metadata in either HTML or help file format. Trial download is here,  pricing from $135.
• Introducing Regulazy: Point & Click Regular Expressions - Roy Osherove is building an expert system to help develop regular expressions. Get the alpha along with his other software at tools.osherove.com.
• Instant Rails - If you want to see what Ruby on Rails is about, just unzip this project to a folder on your Windows box and away you go - all the servers are preconfigured, no installs to do. Matt Griffith has even recorded a 5-minute screencast to get you started. (And you know - the fact that you can get Apache, MySQL, Ruby, and Rails this easily without screwing up anything else on your system suggests that there is something very, very wrong with the way that we do most software installs.)
• SharpBITS.NET - .NET Windows GUI wrapper for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service with open source access available.

• Lexar recalls dangerous flash drives - Nothing is safe anymore, is it?

• Audio Feedback the Easy Way - I wrote up the System.Media namespace for Developer.com.
• Library of Free Data Models - A variety of schemas free for the taking.  (via Fabrice Mageurie)
• Bot Obedience: Herding Googlebot - Matt Cutts offers advice on getting just what you want indexed by Google.
• Taking on the WWF - Bugsplat offers a list of resources to get you started with Windows Workflow Foundation.

• By the Community, For the Community - Got an ASP.NET sample you really want to see? Now you can use this Microsoft-sponsored program to persuade a batch of MVPs to create it for you.
• Fishing in the shallows � The Story of the Small Market Developer - Scott Reynolds rants about the difficulties of finding tech jobs and competent programmers in small towns. This is why I don't even bother looking for either one locally.

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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.