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The Daily Grind 993
by Mike Gunderloy
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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The head cold pixies are out to get me this year.
- geocoder.us - Free geocoding
(address to latitude/longitude) lookups for non-commercial use, or 20,000 lookups
for $50 for commercial use, which is quite cheap compared to the alternatives I
know about.
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There, but for the grace of God (and the experiences of Java) go I - Ted Neward
discusses the lamentable tendency towards layers of abstraction which, frankly,
makes many .NET libraries these days nearly unusable.
- Assembla - Free public or private
project hosting with integrated Subversion and Trac software. (via
dzone)
- Switching to the white side - Mike Roberts becomes another prominent Windows voice switching to OS
X instead of moving to Vista.
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Mike Gunderloy is
the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.
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