The Daily Grind 1022 by Mike Gunderloy Monday, November 27, 2006

Well, here it is Cyber Monday - are you going to sick out and go shopping online?

• TimeSnapper 2.1 - New version of this app for keeping track of your daily doings by taking screenshots.
• StatSVN - Free tool for generating metrics reports on projects checked into Subversion repositories. (via Andrew Stopford)
• XML Notepad 2007 - Microsoft revs their free lightweight XML editor. (via Oleg Tkachenko)
• RadRails - Free Eclipse-based IDE for Ruby on Rails. If you're not on a Mac and you're addicted to IDEs instead of text editors this looks like the hottest ticket for playing with Rails.
• Fiddler 2 - Alpha version of the Fiddler HTTP debugging proxy with HTTPS support. (via Greg Duncan)
• NStudy 1.0 - Track your progress in learning .NET by comparing the APIs you've used against the APIs inthe Framework.
• wikidPad - This wiki-like notebook for your desktop has gone open source since the last time I looked at it.

• Virtualization not 'mature' for consumers - That's what Microsoft says. Good thing I'm a highly-trained developer, huh?
• The Windows Shutdown crapfest - An explanation from the developer who spent a year working on the Vista shutdown menu. A year. The mind boggles.
• Visual Web Developer on a MacBook - Looks sweet, but you know, I've got all these cheap Windows boxes scattered around. Still tempting.

• How To Be A Couple Of Micro-ISV People On Opposite Sides of the World - Sage advice (or something) from Leon Banbrick.
• MicrodeX - Custom search engine for searching only Microsoft stuff. Ironically enough it's based on Google's search.

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