The Daily Grind 991 by Mike Gunderloy Friday, October 13, 2006

Survived another week, hooray!

• FtpPublisher, An FTP file synchronization tool - Synchronize a local folder to a remote site based on which local files have changed.
• VistaDB 3 - Still not final, but the feature set of this fully-managed SQL database keeps getting longer, now including support for CLR functions and stored procedures.
• GridFTP.NET and GRAM.NET - Code to help .NET clients interoperate with some popular scientific grid software.(via Dan Fay)

• Final Review: The Lowdown on Office 2007 - Long review from ComputerWorld. They're sort of lukewarm on the new version.
• Snake Oil-oriented Architecture - Grady Booch talks about good and bad SOA.
• The Project Postmortem: An Essential Tool for the Savvy Developer - A little something I banged together for Developer.com.
• Microsoft denies some Vista editions to run virtualized - Apparently the EULA for Vista says you can't run Home Basic or Home Premium within a VM. And if you're running other flavors of Vista in a VM, you are prohibited from using any Microsoft rights management technologies. Sheesh.

• Vista the Adventure Game - Humor from David Ing.
• Windows Live Search: OPML Generator - Instantly assemble a bunch of RSS feeds into an OPML file suitable for importing into many RSS readers. (via Andy Edmonds)

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