The Daily Grind 943 by Mike Gunderloy Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Those contest prize packages are looking yummier all the time...

• Robotics Studio August 2006 CTP  - An update to Microsoft's .NET-based robotics platform.
• SQL Anywhere 10 - New release of this database system that scales from big servers down to mobile devices.
• RADMIN 3.0 beta - These folks claim to have the fastest speed of any PC remote-control software. I haven't tested myself.
• LUA Buglight public [pre]-release - New tool for finding least-privileged user access bugs.
• Add-in Comparison: VSFileFinder 2005 vs. SonicFileFinder - Rolane Weigelt looks at a couple of Visual Studio .NET add-ins.
• YeahReader - New free RSS reader with built-in blog client.

• VMware Virtualization for Mac OSX - Not shipping yet, but they announced today and you can register for the beta. A bit more background here. There might finally be a Mac in my future if this actually works.
• LearnSqlServer.com - SQL Server video training available by download. They have a selection of freebies to get you hooked. After that subscription packages start at $11.95.
• Teamprise 2.0 Preview Program - What's coming in this Eclipse client for Team Foundation Server.
• Borland revives 'Turbo' for developer tools - Turbo C# (among other products) is coming, in both free and pay editions. Smart move, considering the number of us with fond memories of other "Turbo" products from days of yore.
• HttpRequest.Browser.Crawl Property - It turns out to be very easy to serve up specific content to crawlers using ASP.NET. Of course, do this too aggressively and you'll get banned for cloaking.

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