The Daily Grind 940 by Mike Gunderloy Thursday, August 3, 2006

Three kids at 6:30 AM = utter chaos.

• eEye Research Tools - The guys over at eEye are posting some of their security research tools for all to play with. Enjoy.
• meebo me - The folks behind the online IM connector meebo are now out with a chat widget that you can use to add IM to any Web site. Harass your visitors in real time!
• U3 - Software and hardware standards for building portable applications on USB drives. They've got a developer kit available if you want to make your own apps play in their space.
• "Atlas" Control Toolkit July Update - Bug fixes and new controls. Shawn Burke has some more details.

• Basics: Master Page FAQ - Eric Wise answers some questions you may or may not have had.
• August 2006 Web Server Survey - Looks like the Netcraft survey is on track to cross 100 million sites on the Web before the end of the year. Scary.
• ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas - Scott Guthrie's greatest hits.
• A J2EE Moment of Zen - Miguel de Icaza concludes "Microsoft's Avalon is the J2EE of GUI APIs. Its God's way of punishing us for replacing the ten commandments with the Design Pattern fad." I have to say that I think there's a fair amount of truth in that.

• Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft - Over 150 downloads you might not know about. (via M3 Sweatt)

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