The Daily Grind 945 by Mike Gunderloy Thursday, August 10, 2006

It's birthday season around here. A great chaos of happy children at regular intervals.

• Unfuddle - Hosted bug-tracking, Subversion source code control, and project management tools. 1 project, 1 user, basic tools for free, pricing goes up in steps to $99 per month from there. (via WorkHappy)
• Team Build Ticker - Task tray monitor for Team Foundation Server builds. Looks immature but might inspire someone.
• Community Server 2.1 Now Available - New version of this topnotch blogging and community site engine is out.

• AOL gives out free .com domains to anyone who asks - Just when you thought AOL users couldn't get to be more of a plague.
• 2007 Microsoft Office System Document: The New Microsoft Office User Interface, Overview for Information Technology Professionals - More downloadable propaganda from the Office team.
• Another WGA Failure - Ed Bott from ZDNet tries to get caught using pirated Windows and WGA obstinately refuses to nail him. (On a side note, things have come to a pretty pass when Ziff-Davis goes trolling for hits by including a "Digg This" tag on their pages). 

• Softies on Rails - Weblog for Microsoft-tool refugees in the Ruby on Rails world.
• Quad Core Desktops and Diminishing Returns - Jeff Atwood is skeptical of the benefits of quad core, but Larry O'Brien argues that smart developers will learn how to code for them or face obsolescence. Me? I hope like hell to be retired before it matters.
• next.design.now - One stop shopping for info and download links for all "experiences on Microsoft presentation platforms" from Atlas to Vista to XAML to Expression and more. (via gduthie)

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